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Can I swap bits from comfort to sport seats?

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My car has 8 way electric and heated comfort seats and to be honest they have seen better days. My old turbo had manual sport seats and I prefer these due to them stopping you sliding out of the seat on corners, leaning on the centre arm rest and snapping the hinge! But I do like the adjustability of the comfort seats.

I've been offered a set of both comfort and a set of sport seats. Now the comfort seats are only the 4 way adjustment and I think the sport seats are all manual.

So the question is how hard would it be to put all the gubbins from my seats into the either set of the new ones? In an ideal world I would like 8 way heated sport seats!
 
Hard I would think.
You could swop the backs over but the element is in the comfort seats, same for the base.
You are going to have to open up the seats to get the bits out but that then involves almost remaking them.
Not quite sure how you'd do it easily.
But heated seats are lovvveely.
 
I don't know chapter and verse in what you can mix and match but my sports seats are not manual. I guess they are what you could probably call partly electric. They aallow the front and rear of the squab to be raised or lowered independently or together. Fore and aft movement, and the backrest, are manual. And they are not heated.
 
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I don't know chapter and verse in what you can mix and match but my sports seats are not manual. I guess they are what you could probably call partly electric. They aallow the front and rear of the squab to be raised or lowered independently or together. Fore and aft movement, and the backrest, are manual. And they are not heated.
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Same as mine. I think that's how all the sports seat are.
 
forward and aft is manual but as others do I have electrical front and rear squab adjustment on my sports seats. And they are heated.
 
Manual sports seats = Tombstones! Would you expect to be able to fit the motors from a series two seat (which some people seem to incorrectly call Tombstones now BTW), into an earlier series one seat? Unfortunately theyre very different.

If the Tombstones are good then Id have them. They weigh a fraction of what an electric sports seat weighs too.
 
Well the sport seats I'm looking at do have electric up down as people have said above but no heat.
I guess this makes them series two seats??
So could the forward/backwards and backrest motors be fitted along with the heating element from my seats?
 
Im with you now. Id suspect that theyre similar then, particularly if the full option was available in a 911 or 928 when they were made. I have a set of Tombstones in my garage and some electric sports seats in my spare room, so I was going to offer to have a look for you - unfortunately I dont have a set of heated and unheated sports seats... [:D]
 
The workshop manual does show how to remove the seat heating elements. Don't know if this would you help you out at all. In any case I think it would be a good project and I would love to know how you get on.
 
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