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10-07-2023, 07:59 PM
I found this forum while trying to find some answers for putting modern seats in an old Oldsmobile. There was a thread from 2017 that sort of addressed my problem but left more questions than it answered.
I am in the early stages of building a 65 442. I live in Texas and have alway wanted cooled seats and vowed this car would have them. I now have a driver seat from a 2016 Camaro and a passenger seat from a 2018 Camaro. Once the mounting and wiring details are figured out I will eventually add the heating and cooling units when I reupholster them. Unfortunately these things have airbags in them. I am not comfortable just applying voltage to the wires to see what happens. The seats present different wiring. The thread I mentioned above was for someone working with 2016 Camaro seats. It was mentioned that if the user just wanted the adjustment to work then apply battery voltage to the RD-WH wire in pin 1 and RD-YE wire in pin 24, ground to black wire on pin 17.
This seemed to be my answer until I looked at the seat. The supplier thoughtfully removed the connector and there was a Red wire with yellow stripe and black wire that seem large enough to carry the necessary currnt (12 ga maybe). The rest are significantly smaller.
I don't mind working through connections until I find the right combo unless one of the wrong ones sets off the airbag(s). How do I make the adjusters work without blowing part of the seat out? And how are the airbags triggered? Seems like something to avoid.
Here is what I have to work with on the driver's side seat.
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I will address the passenger seat once this one is sorted out. It may just be a matter of applying voltage to the red/yellow and grounding to black on this one. But I don't know what causes the airbags to fire. Maybe I need to do something somewhere else to avoid that?
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
I am in the early stages of building a 65 442. I live in Texas and have alway wanted cooled seats and vowed this car would have them. I now have a driver seat from a 2016 Camaro and a passenger seat from a 2018 Camaro. Once the mounting and wiring details are figured out I will eventually add the heating and cooling units when I reupholster them. Unfortunately these things have airbags in them. I am not comfortable just applying voltage to the wires to see what happens. The seats present different wiring. The thread I mentioned above was for someone working with 2016 Camaro seats. It was mentioned that if the user just wanted the adjustment to work then apply battery voltage to the RD-WH wire in pin 1 and RD-YE wire in pin 24, ground to black wire on pin 17.
This seemed to be my answer until I looked at the seat. The supplier thoughtfully removed the connector and there was a Red wire with yellow stripe and black wire that seem large enough to carry the necessary currnt (12 ga maybe). The rest are significantly smaller.
I don't mind working through connections until I find the right combo unless one of the wrong ones sets off the airbag(s). How do I make the adjusters work without blowing part of the seat out? And how are the airbags triggered? Seems like something to avoid.
Here is what I have to work with on the driver's side seat.
209627
I will address the passenger seat once this one is sorted out. It may just be a matter of applying voltage to the red/yellow and grounding to black on this one. But I don't know what causes the airbags to fire. Maybe I need to do something somewhere else to avoid that?
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,