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Bypass-Wiring of seat-electrics!


Lacoste82

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Hey, i have a 93 mkiv n/a, j-spec. As ive told before, i have disasembled a great part of it(the car) and experienced that some some "funny" things have been done to the car along the way, by the previous owners.

 

But anyway, when i removed the front seats, and ofcourse i had to unclip the two connectors that sit together under the seat, i take it its through this one connector that the seat gets its power for the slide/elevation function.

BUT, when i reached to unplug the two connectors(one coming from the seat itself and one from the bottom of the car), i saw that something strange had been done:

 

Explanation: Going into each of the connectors are 4 individual wires, 2 of these wires had been pulled out from each connector, and joined directly to eachother(with SPEAKERCABLE! who does that to a car like the Supra!) And whats even worse, part of this "Cable" wasnt insulated! The original connecters where not connected, and therefore leaving the 2 wires still in it, not connected.

 

A few answers upfront: The car doesnt have any buttons for seatheaters, the slide/elevation function worked perfectly, Its in the Passenger frontseat that i experienced this.

 

So, now im just not sure why anyone would want to make such and operation to bypass a couple of wires!

I havent been able to find a wirering diagram that shows ecxatly what wire runs where, so i can find out what the explanation could be.

 

Therefore i im hoping that someone would have an detailed diagram of the wirering in this area!

 

Thx in advance! [GRIN][/GRIN]

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I could be wrong but I don't believe an electric passenger seat was a factory option. If you have two electric seats I suspect that a previous owner has replaced your passenger seat with a drivers seat from a car driven on the other side of the road.

 

If that is the case then wiring the seat power supplies in parallel is a sensible thing to do, as long as only one seat is operated at a time. I plan to do something similar myself when I eventually get round to fitting leather seats.

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I could be wrong but I don't believe an electric passenger seat was a factory option. If you have two electric seats I suspect that a previous owner has replaced your passenger seat with a drivers seat from a car driven on the other side of the road.

 

If that is the case then wiring the seat power supplies in parallel is a sensible thing to do, as long as only one seat is operated at a time. I plan to do something similar myself when I eventually get round to fitting leather seats.

 

Good point, I missed the part that it was a passenger seat. However there is a connector on all supra's under the passenger seat, guess it's for the seatbelt sensor.

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