seat wiring advice following seat swap

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seat wiring advice following seat swap

Post by cococola » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:20 pm

I have fitted a pair of Mgf leather seats into my Mgtf today and the wiring plugs for the srs are different so Iam going to use crimp connectors instead.
On the car wiring plug right hand under the seat the colours are red/brown one wire and brown the other. On the left hand car loom under the seat it is orange/blue one wire and orange the other.
On the seats them selves the colours are blue/red one wire and blue/white the other.
Can somebody please advise which wires connect to which. :?
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Re: seat wiring advice following seat swap

Post by talkingcars » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:48 pm

Swap the units, IIRC they are only held in place by one T50 bolt, this is the same bolt as the seats are held down with.
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Re: seat wiring advice following seat swap

Post by Mykel » Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:41 am

Excellent advice by James, as usual.
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Re: seat wiring advice following seat swap

Post by cococola » Thu Feb 08, 2018 2:43 pm

talkingcars wrote:Swap the units, IIRC they are only held in place by one T50 bolt, this is the same bolt as the seats are held down with.
I would but unfortunately the seats never came with them :(
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Re: seat wiring advice following seat swap

Post by Mykel » Thu Feb 08, 2018 6:24 pm

Wot? Your original seats didn't have seat belt tensioners fitted? How did you manage to buckle up then??
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Re: seat wiring advice following seat swap

Post by cococola » Thu Feb 08, 2018 8:52 pm

My cloth seats were swapped for leather ones aswell as the pre tensioners, I had a spare set of tensioners but didnt know that the wiring would be different. Any advice with wiring colours would help me.
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Re: seat wiring advice following seat swap

Post by talkingcars » Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:44 pm

Is it possible to get hold of the person in the swap deal and swap the pre-tensioners over?
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Re: seat wiring advice following seat swap

Post by Mykel » Fri Feb 09, 2018 5:56 am

Do I get it correctly that you have the yellow connectors on the car and red ones on the seats? Attached you find the pin out (face view) for the red connectors on the car, so you can compare the cavity positions to their counterparts on the seats and allocate them correctly.
As the colours are coded in Rover-speech, here’s the translation: O = orange, OU = orange-blue, N = brown, NR = brown-red. :lol:

Sadly neither the connectors nor the wire colours on the seat wires are recorded in the books.

Hope this helps.
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Re: seat wiring advice following seat swap

Post by cococola » Fri Feb 09, 2018 7:11 pm

Fabulous Ive managed to crimp connectors and wired up all ok using your translation. many thanks :thumbsu:
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