Recently bought a set of leather burnt orange seats for my 03 enthusiast. A few specific questions, the seller gave me the stock switches, the seats are from an 03 and I have an 03, is there any type of plug and play? What I've read has given me conflicting answers.

Also, I've read that some use the cig lighter for a power of the seats, but was told it doesn't draw enough current to power the seat motors. Can you use the lighter for power for the seats (not heat)? If not, what do most use as power ?

Thanks.

 

Plug and play, plugs are tucked away. If you want to run seat heaters you need the switches , short harness and a relay to make it all work.

I need to list my switches and harness again

 

Where are they tucked? (for power?)

Also, previous owner of seats gave me the heater switches, is there a part no. for harness and relay needed?

 

Here's a picture of the switches and harness the previous owner provided me with

 

Harness is tucked under the carpet and wrapped in tape

 

So I pulled the pass seat out and pulled up the carpet...

Doesn't look like my car came wired for the seats, and looks like I will have to wire them up myself...

At this time, I don't drive the car in the winter so the heat isn't imperative, whats the best thing to use to power them? Ive been told the cigg lighter could be used but may not draw enough current?

Reference the harness above, can I just swap out this harness for the seated heats to make them work?
(the circled plug doesn't look like it has enough wires coming out of it for the seat heater function, could be wrong tho)

 

So after doing some more research, I'm still a little clueless, now that I have to wire it up myself, the bottom of the seat is all Greek to me, which wires do i tap for power and ground, not worried about heaters at the moment

 

Anyone? Just need to know which wires to tap, all I want is power to the seats, I have supplied a picture of the underside of both pass and driver seat, along with the plug I suspect I need to tap but not sure. PLEASE HELP!!!
Drivers side:


Passenger side:

 

Well a little update in case some people are looking to do the same thing and had the same question(s) as me. As suspected, it was the zoomed in plugs pictured above (switch side of plug), I tapped into them (red for power, black for ground) and tested on a battery to ensure they worked properly before install. Cig lighter is sufficient enough to power the seats, I haven't worried about the heaters yet.

Well, here is the finished working product below!



All in all, wiring, old seat removal, install... took a little over 2 hours...

 

Looks great - nice job.

 

This is the exact color seats I have but manual. Something about that black and caramel color really vibes with me lol. Nice setup! So exotic

 

Can you post some pics of how you tapped the wires I've never done wiring but want to do the same on my nismo

 

I I just used T-Taps, tapped into the red, and ran it to the cig lighter and then T-tapped the black and went under a seat bracket bolt for the ground.

Not sure if it matters but I tapped into the switch side on the plug. Sorry I didn't take any pics and I would have to pull them out to take one, fairly simple, but I only drive the car in the summer and therefore wasn't worried about the heating function.

Hope this helps

 

THANKS!! Yeah I love it ! I didn't know they made those seats in manual.

 

Thank you.