southpawboston
Drag Racing Champion
- Location
- Somerville, MA
Nice man, I got my seats in over the weekend (largely to stop hearing complaints from people in my shop where they were stored). How difficult was it to get the harness over to the passenger side? Did you pull the center console/carpet? I REALLY don't want to but if it's necessary I'm gonna sound deaden the floor while I'm in there. I have all the materials for it (MLV, CCF, etc) as I still intend to do my doors.
Running the Kufatec harness was the easiest part. From the BCM, it branches into left and right sides. Left side runs behind the kick panel and under the sill-- you only need to pop out the forward-most four sill clips, not the whole sill.
Right side runs under the carpet behind the brake/accelerator pedals along the firewall, passes through the dash to the right side without any disassembly, and continues along the firewall behind the center console to the right side. No need to pull the console. Then behind the right side kick panel and under the sill. I only pulled the kick panels and the sound insulating panels under the glovebox and steering column. Honestly that was the easiest part and Kufatec designed in at least 6" of extra length to make sure each harness branch will reach each seat.
The seat ends of the harness pass under a couple of inches of carpeting between the sill and the floor connectors. No carpeting has to get removed.
I've gotten really good at removing the BCM connectors and adding new pins, so there was no challenge there. But the biggest challenge, and one that I did not succeed at, was inserting the SC26 fuse connection behind the fuse panel. I didn't try too hard, but I gave up pretty early as it was getting late and it was the last thing that needed to get done. I ended up jumpering the connector to temporary wire hooked up to an add-a-fuse, and plugged into SC26 from the front. At some future point, I will reassess and figure out how to get the fuse wire in there properly so it will be 100% OEM.
Don't forget that that the BCM will have to get coded to recognize heated seats.
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