I bought a set of facelift sports seats from Steve @Low Rider a couple of months ago and intended to have them fitted by now, but weekend home jobs, bad weather and a touch of the "I can't be arsed" delayed the job until now.
Steve had had them in storage for a while and told me they needed a good clean, but they weren't too bad.
I did an initial clean and a couple of easy repairs with the help of a leather refurbishing kit from "Scratch Doctor" and decided I was going to attempt to create a two tone look that's favoured by many of you fellow Zedders.
I decided mine was going to be black and beige so had a go and this is how they turned out.
The beige is a little light compared to the rest of the interior but it'll do for the moment.
The recolouring is pretty easy but in my haste to get it done I found that I didn't pay enough attention to the initial cleaning process. When I was putting the beige colour on the seat I found the fluid was "splitting" which meant that I hadn't removed all the grease deposits that had built up over the years, but I'd started so I thought I'd finish it.
Now the techy bit .......
On the underside of facelift seats you'll find one big yellow plug
and under the seat of a pre-facelift car you'll find a different type of plug, and to make it sort of complicated, there's actually three plugs
From here you have some choices, you can either cut the plugs off and join the wires if you can sort this type of thing yourself, or you can do what I did and buy a couple of BMW purpose made wiring looms. I bought these from Soper's @Soper Parts Lincoln . They aren't cheap at £52 each, but it means the job is "plug and go". BMW part number is 61106916218.
The yellow bit fits into the yellow bit like this
and the other ends fit together like this
Easy peasy.
So, then you just fit the new seats into your Zed, connect the plugs as already described and Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your auntie and job's a guddun. Job done.
Just got the one in then it started to rain so I thought I'd come in the house for a cuppa and to start putting this on the forum.
When it knocks off I'll go out and fit the other one and I'll take a top down pic of my updated Zed.
Steve had had them in storage for a while and told me they needed a good clean, but they weren't too bad.
I did an initial clean and a couple of easy repairs with the help of a leather refurbishing kit from "Scratch Doctor" and decided I was going to attempt to create a two tone look that's favoured by many of you fellow Zedders.
I decided mine was going to be black and beige so had a go and this is how they turned out.
The beige is a little light compared to the rest of the interior but it'll do for the moment.
The recolouring is pretty easy but in my haste to get it done I found that I didn't pay enough attention to the initial cleaning process. When I was putting the beige colour on the seat I found the fluid was "splitting" which meant that I hadn't removed all the grease deposits that had built up over the years, but I'd started so I thought I'd finish it.
Now the techy bit .......
On the underside of facelift seats you'll find one big yellow plug
and under the seat of a pre-facelift car you'll find a different type of plug, and to make it sort of complicated, there's actually three plugs
From here you have some choices, you can either cut the plugs off and join the wires if you can sort this type of thing yourself, or you can do what I did and buy a couple of BMW purpose made wiring looms. I bought these from Soper's @Soper Parts Lincoln . They aren't cheap at £52 each, but it means the job is "plug and go". BMW part number is 61106916218.
The yellow bit fits into the yellow bit like this
and the other ends fit together like this
Easy peasy.
So, then you just fit the new seats into your Zed, connect the plugs as already described and Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your auntie and job's a guddun. Job done.
Just got the one in then it started to rain so I thought I'd come in the house for a cuppa and to start putting this on the forum.
When it knocks off I'll go out and fit the other one and I'll take a top down pic of my updated Zed.
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