Swapping base seats to Premium Seats

[sky5oh]

Hey, I was just wondering if anybody has swapped their base seats to the premium seats? I love the idea of having ventilated seats and was just curious if anybody has pulled it off yet and if it was plug and play obviously with the addition of changing some lines in forscan to get the ventilated seat option to show on the screen. Thanks in advance

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[rbeyer]

Ventilated seats require ducting with the rest of the HVAC system, I think heated seats have heaters built in, but cooled seats use the cars AC.

 

[sky5oh]

Ventilated seats require ducting with the rest of the HVAC system, I think heated seats have heaters built in, but cooled seats use the cars AC.

Ahhh good to know, so it would be harder to pull that off. I wonder if it would be possible to even to put the ducting in on the base model. Like if it was just plugged off or if you’d have to run a whole new section. I’m gonna have to look at the diagrams from ford. I appreciate your response

 

[sky5oh]

Here’s the parts I’ve located so far of the diagrams:

Gonna keep researching.


VENTILATED SEATS


https://www.lascoautoparts.com/oem-...ju5z19d809a?origin=pla&utm_source=chatgpt.com








https://ford.oempartsonline.com/oem...ju5z19n550c?origin=pla&utm_source=chatgpt.com








https://parts.lakelandford.com/p/Fo...edLabel=cvb_make_model&utm_source=chatgpt.com










https://www.fordoempartsdirect.com/...kr3z17f803a?origin=pla&utm_source=chatgpt.com

Props to ChatGPT for making that easy lol

 

[sky5oh]

Here’s the parts I’ve located so far of the diagrams:

Gonna keep researching.


VENTILATED SEATS


https://www.lascoautoparts.com/oem-...ju5z19d809a?origin=pla&utm_source=chatgpt.com








https://ford.oempartsonline.com/oem...ju5z19n550c?origin=pla&utm_source=chatgpt.com








https://parts.lakelandford.com/p/Fo...edLabel=cvb_make_model&utm_source=chatgpt.com










https://www.fordoempartsdirect.com/...kr3z17f803a?origin=pla&utm_source=chatgpt.com

Props to ChatGPT for making that easy lol

Better diagram

 

[Paul's stable]

Better diagram

So are these cooled or just have a fan that blows air thru the seat's?

 

[krisk]

Ventilated seats require ducting with the rest of the HVAC system, I think heated seats have heaters built in, but cooled seats use the cars AC.

Are you sure the seats have ducting with the A/C system? I’ve removed my premium seats and it was just two electrical plugs. There was no ducting connection.

 

[krisk]

So are these cooled or just have a fan that blows air thru the seat's?

I think it is just ventilation, not actually cooling.

 

[sky5oh]

Are you sure the seats have ducting with the A/C system? I’ve removed my premium seats and it was just two electrical plugs. There was no ducting connection.

Good to know, if that’s the case it should be relatively easy to do as long as the connections are the same, did you possibly take a photo when you took them out?

 

[krisk]

Good to know, if that’s the case it should be relatively easy to do as long as the connections are the same, did you possibly take a photo when you took them out?

I didn’t take a picture, but the seats are sitting in my shop, and I can get a photo of the connection when I get home Friday.

 

[sky5oh]

I didn’t take a picture, but the seats are sitting in my shop, and I can get a photo of the connection when I get home Friday.

Sounds like a plan, I appreciate you! 🤝🏼

 

[RoninGSX]

Did you ever do the conversion? Curious as I will be doing the cloth to leather conversion soon!

 

[sky5oh]

Did you ever do the conversion? Curious as I will be doing the cloth to leather conversion soon!

Nah I never did. I’ll probably end up going Katzkin whenever I do decide to swap my seats out

 

[Wiley Marmot]

Are you sure the seats have ducting with the A/C system? I’ve removed my premium seats and it was just two electrical plugs. There was no ducting connection.

Yea. I've been seriously covetting a pair of those three color Recaro buckets from Ford Performance to replace my heated & cooled premium seats. The install video I watched showed it was just four bolts per seat and one multi pin connector.

 

[RoninGSX]

Yea. I've been seriously covetting a pair of those three color Recaro buckets from Ford Performance to replace my heated & cooled premium seats. The install video I watched showed it was just four bolts per seat and one multi pin connector.

I'd seriously consider buying your premium seats if you did! Did you get the black leather or the space gray?

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