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Old Apr 19, 2011 | 08:33 PM
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Wiring Electric Seats

I recently bought a set of leather seat that are electric. the seat I took out of my Camaro were not electric I would go about wiring these seats in? Only the driver seat is electric.
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Old Apr 19, 2011 | 09:06 PM
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Re: Wiring Electric Seats

Seats will have 2 wires, a power and a ground. Can ground the ground wire anywhere (I dilled a small hole into my seat belt retractor at the bottom of seat, and put a sheet metal screw into it.

Power wire - run under the carpet or under the door sill plate, up to the driver underdash. In the fuse panel, you'll find an empty slot marked BAT - crimp a standard 1/4inch male spade connector to the wire, and insert into that slot.

That way, the seat will have power even without the key (so you can set it back after a shorter person drives, before you put the key in).
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Old Apr 22, 2011 | 10:29 AM
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Re: Wiring Electric Seats

what if you have a power seat, but a manual seat track??
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Old Apr 23, 2011 | 08:52 PM
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Re: Wiring Electric Seats

If you run your wire to the bat slot make sure you put an inline fuse 20 amp. That will save you a lot of trouble if the wire gets shorted to ground.
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Old Apr 26, 2011 | 05:45 PM
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Re: Wiring Electric Seats

thanks helped a lot
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Old Oct 3, 2011 | 11:03 PM
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Re: Wiring Electric Seats

So the tracks are different (power and manual seats??). When I bought my seat off a 98 Z28 for my 91, it came with the tracks.. and the holes seemed to line up (have not wired up the power seat so I haven't bolted them in all the way yet.. Stone
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