Hello everyone,
So my new mazda 2014 sedan came with cloth seats and I was very heavily considering replacing the seats with some of the OEM leather seats. My only problem with this is the driver seat is a power bucket seat while my current seat is just a manual bucket seat. Has anyone done this swap before? Is it something easy to do or am I gonna be fighting a lot to get the power seat properly installed by doing custom wiring and such? Any information on this would be very helpful!
Thank you!
Late to the party but no connectors won’t be “under carpet”
if u look at mazda seats on the front underside is a square box’ that’s where all your wire harness connect think there’s like 8 squares for different things’ so basicallyu would take 4 bolts out of old seat tilt back and remove the only wire harness holding it in’ (this harness runs under carpet but that’s not important’
If u buy leather seats it would be a drop in replacement aka those seats also have the black box and work once u plug in that main Connector u unplugged in step 1’
all the other connectors that go into the black box are all under the seat of the leather seat and plug in to different parts of that square’ but those will all be there and hooked up’ don’t need to buy any other harnesses
so yes all u need to do is unbolt your seat
Un connect the only harness going to seat
Remove seat
buy leather seats From salvage yard
Put the 4 bolts in and reconnect the harness u un did in step 1 and all will work’
If u want the heated seats to work u will need the little dash piece where the light says passenger airbag off (rite above a/c controls)
that is also a direct swap and plug and play so just make sure u get that piece when buying seats from salvage yard’
now u have heated power seats
Well the driver you’ll have heated on both driver/passenger but mazda was cheap and passenger seat is manual with no lumbar even with leather’
for reference the i grand touring will be the faux leather/pleather seats
the s gt has the “real” leather
hope it helps someone like previous post said it’s literally plug and play’