SEL rear seat into an SD/SE? - Page 2 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Hit Man X · #16 11-27-2006, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by sixto

Hit Man, the seat cushion cover is easy to remove. With small hands you can do it without removing the seat from the car. Feel along the lower front edge of the seat for the seam between the hem of the seat cover and the metal frame of the seat. Use a plastic putty spreader or something like that to pry the hem forward. Put weight on the seat cushion then slip the seat cover hem down and free of the channel that retaines it. Put weight on the sides and rear edges to release the hem all around. The seat cover and padding should come off the seat frame. I've never removed the cover from the seat back but I removing the rear cover should reveal how it's retained.

Sixto
93 300SD

Hrm, would I be able to see how it breaks down from there? I bought seats from another SDL for my SD but the wiring is different... that interior has been taking up space in my house for about seven months now.

James L · #17 11-27-2006, 04:03 PM

hitmanx; are the big black plastic front seat power supply plugs shaped different? (12 pin under seat, under carpet), can they be pluged together? i am thinking you can pry the covers off the male and female plugs and match the wire colors. may need a wiring diagram of the SDL and SD. may have to omit the SDL's heated seat, seat memory, electric headrest but the normal foward/back/up/down/recline should match up somehow. may have to play around with it...just like on the euro headlight/us plug conversion.

keep us posted on your front seat swap hitman.

thanks sixto for the front headrest tip.

Hit Man X · #18 11-27-2006, 04:16 PM

It's all out of whack.

Since my motors are fine in the SD, I PLAN (lol) to break down the entire SDL seats I have to rebuild my SD seats. That way I can retain the current motors for the wiring end, and have new seats.

I already installed the new rear, new leather again is nice.

Johnhef · #19 11-27-2006, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by James L

hitmanx; are the big black plastic front seat power supply plugs shaped different? (12 pin under seat, under carpet), can they be pluged together? i am thinking you can pry the covers off the male and female plugs and match the wire colors. may need a wiring diagram of the SDL and SD.

I just went though this on my 84 500SEL. Its entire interior had been swapped from a later model (to change interior color from gray to burgundy) and the later models power seats were not a direct plug n play. The car was setup for memory on the drivers side, no memory on the passenger side. the seats in the car had the memory function but when I got it, the passenger seat was not plugged in (8 pin connector- 14 pins on the module) and on the drivers only the fore/aft and headrest motors worked in it and from the WRONG switches! I ended up removing the seat control module from the passenger seat and fabricating a footlong 8 pin wire harness to connect the body plug to each individual motor on the seat. Passenger seat now works great but no headrest and no memory (car not wired for either). For the drivers seat, I ended up skipping over the two pins for the headrest motor and then rewiring the 12 pin body plug to match up to the later version seat control module. Lot of guess and check for which pins on the module ran which motor. I'll give you a tip though, each motors pins are side by side in the connector. So after a few evenings of playing around with it I now have working power front seats again.

Hit Man X · #20 11-27-2006, 05:20 PM

Hahaha, yeah I had the head rest move with the fwd/back button.