Question : Drivers and Passangers seats interchangeable?

[dlo]

Simply put, (due to some recent seat breaking issues) is the drivers side seat and the passengers side seat swapable?

I have the cloth XLT power seats and don't care about all the bladders and adjustments.....jus need to know if I can take my currectly broken seat from the drivers side and switch it with the passengers working seat for my wife to begine driving it withOUT spending the $75 from a junk yard to replace it.

Oh yea, and I have the tools, and am so so with working on it myself, jus need to know if it will

A: fit
b: Line up properly without any modefacation.
c: jus plain old work.

tanks all.

 

[gijoecam]

Doubt it. The levers and controls are all on the wrong side. Additionally, if you have a power seat, the connectors and everything won't line-up. Finally, I believe that the seat brackets are asymmetrical and, therefore, not interchangable.

Also, IIRC, the driver's seat will be powered, the pass seat will be manual. Completely different tracks in that case.

-Joe

 

[mwking]

You can't just unbolt them from the floor and swap them, but if you take them out and unbolt the seat base from the bottom of the seat and swap them you should be able to.

 

[dlo]

Thanks for the help gang.

Also, IIRC, the driver's seat will be powered, the pass seat will be manual. Completely different tracks in that case.

-Joe

Nope, both are power everything. I have the loaded XLT.

You can't just unbolt them from the floor and swap them, but if you take them out and unbolt the seat base from the bottom of the seat and swap them you should be able to.

Rock on. My wife was leaning back to give our at the time 3 month old a pacifier and the mechanism that alows you to tilt the seat up or down jus gave out. I think the teeth jus stripped from years of use.

 

[PedroDaGr8]

check the seatbelt connector. I seem to think that it is on the wrong side on the passenger side (the seatbelt buckle connects to the seat on a sliding rail. DId your seat break in front of the recline adjustment thing and now it wont sit up (my 98 did this and the seats from a 2000 had a bunch of reinforcemnt there, only cost me 90$ for both fornt seats)

 

[gijoecam]

You can't just unbolt them from the floor and swap them, but if you take them out and unbolt the seat base from the bottom of the seat and swap them you should be able to.

Isn't the recline lever a part of the seat itself though, and if so, wouldn't the recline lever then be between the seat and the console?

-Joe

 

[mwking]

Yeah Joe, you are right. The recline lever will be on the wrong side and it will probably interfere with the seat belt mounting. The recline levers are right and left so your best bet is to get another off a trashed junkyard seat and replace the broken one. It should be pretty cheap to just replace the broken part with one from a seat no one would want rather than the whole seat.

 

[dlo]

Yeah Joe, you are right. The recline lever will be on the wrong side and it will probably interfere with the seat belt mounting. The recline levers are right and left so your best bet is to get another off a trashed junkyard seat and replace the broken one. It should be pretty cheap to just replace the broken part with one from a seat no one would want rather than the whole seat.

This sounds great in theory, but all the locals (I called in about a 75 mile range in Maine) will only sell the full seat, and the CHEAPEST was $75

 

[gijoecam]

$75 for an entire seat is really, honestly, quite reasonable. www.car-part.com search around MI turned up thousands of them, but they were all around $300-$400 plus shipping.

-Joe

 

[PedroDaGr8]

heh, I got a new cloth power seat from a junkyard near here for $55.

 

[MONMIX]

cant be done

 

[dlo]

cant be done

This is correct. And after a few hours of wasted time jus to find out myself that yes indead it "Can't be done" is very very true.

 

[dlo]

heh, I got a new cloth power seat from a junkyard near here for $55.

I think I got the guy down from $75 to $70 and if I take it out myself......

Maine kinda sucks this way.

 

[MONMIX]

This is correct. And after a few hours of wasted time jus to find out myself that yes indead it "Can't be done" is very very true.

Sorry I got here late I was on vacation.