Changing drivers seat

**Jow20** · 25th March 2013, 00:12

Do you worry about airbag etc... Or is it a simple job? 2005 sri car. Bolster getting abit worn and cheap enough to replace

cheers

**Woody** · 25th March 2013, 00:19

Piece of cake fella.

After leaving the car with ignition off for 15 minutes (gives the cars on board electronics time to shut down properly). Disconnect the positive + terminal from the battery, wait another 5 minutes, and then set to work. Your air bag electrics are hopefully disabled by now.

Unplug the cars electrics from under the seat, and then using a long breaker bar and a T45 bolt remover, set to work.

Decent quality tools are needed because the threads on the 3 bolts you need to remove, are threadlocked and take a fair bit of shifting (hence the breaker bar and a quality torx fitment).

2 bolts are located on the back of the seat runners (one on each) and the other is the seatbelt fitting on the side of the seat.

Refitting is just a reverse of this.

Finally plug the seat back into the electrics, reconnect the battery, give it a couple of minutes for "luck"

and you are good to go.

I am assuming you are replacing a seat with another from a similar age model car in this write up (airbags etc are important and should be consistant..... ie you are not swapping a seat from a Ford or anything like that LOL)

**TrackTiger** · 25th March 2013, 00:39

As above mate, dead simple.

Unsure if its anything like the astra, but different models had different specs for pre tensioners, so sometimes you need to use your originals.