I did the total opposite when I got my 986. It had 987 seats in it already, but I found a pristine set of 986 seats and swapped back. Thankfully the original installer was lazy and never modified any of the wiring!
Your solution to the mangled seat rails showed persistence. I suspect the person who removed the seats from the donor car didn't know the proper technique for removing the seats and decided to cut them out. That decision made more work for him and you. I installed some 997 adaptive sports seats in my 2000 986. I have everything working except the lumbar and inflatable bolsters in the driver's seat. (I installed the seats in my car, but I continue to work on a solution to the lumbar/bolster issue.) I find the seats more comfortable and supportive than the stock 985 and I hope that they will hold me in place better during high performance driver's education session. With regards to your non-functional seat heaters, I offer the following suggestions. First, the component you refer to as "the box" is the seat heater relay. They are known to fail frequently. I suggest that you swap the relay from your 986 seats to your 997 seats and see if that resolves the issue. Second, I couldn't see exactly how you wired the seat heaters. On the 986 seats, the red/white wire is the power wire, and the brown wire is the ground. The red/white wire runs to one of the heating pads and then connects to then connects to the other pad with the black connector. The ground wire runs from the second heating pad and completes the circuit. I connected the red/white wire to the power wire for the 997 seat heaters and the brown wire to the ground. I suggest that you make sure that the red/white wire you used is the one that goes to the power circuit on the relay. I remember having to think about it for a while before I got it right. If you want to read about my project, you can start here: 986forum.com/forums/boxster-general-discussions/82894-starting-process-installing-997-seats-997-a.html
My heating element on my 986 seats broke. That caused the seat heater to not work. After looking at what it takes to fix it I decided I didn't need heated seats.
I ended up not fixing the heated seat on the drivers side and not hooking up the heated seat on the passenger side. Maybe in the future I'll take a look again. So far I don't miss them.
I’d take the new seats apart and remove the airbag because the explosive is still in there and the car isn’t designed to send the airbag in the correct direction if it ever went off (which they can) if it did it could also set off or react badly with the door airbag
@@LenartoGarage having worked in garages for many years, even airbags that were totally disconnected and out of the car had to be stored in secure heavy duty metal cabinets just in case. Apparently any electrostatic charge has the possibility of setting them off. (More likely when disconnected)
I did the total opposite when I got my 986. It had 987 seats in it already, but I found a pristine set of 986 seats and swapped back. Thankfully the original installer was lazy and never modified any of the wiring!
Your solution to the mangled seat rails showed persistence. I suspect the person who removed the seats from the donor car didn't know the proper technique for removing the seats and decided to cut them out. That decision made more work for him and you. I installed some 997 adaptive sports seats in my 2000 986. I have everything working except the lumbar and inflatable bolsters in the driver's seat. (I installed the seats in my car, but I continue to work on a solution to the lumbar/bolster issue.) I find the seats more comfortable and supportive than the stock 985 and I hope that they will hold me in place better during high performance driver's education session.
With regards to your non-functional seat heaters, I offer the following suggestions. First, the component you refer to as "the box" is the seat heater relay. They are known to fail frequently. I suggest that you swap the relay from your 986 seats to your 997 seats and see if that resolves the issue. Second, I couldn't see exactly how you wired the seat heaters. On the 986 seats, the red/white wire is the power wire, and the brown wire is the ground. The red/white wire runs to one of the heating pads and then connects to then connects to the other pad with the black connector. The ground wire runs from the second heating pad and completes the circuit. I connected the red/white wire to the power wire for the 997 seat heaters and the brown wire to the ground. I suggest that you make sure that the red/white wire you used is the one that goes to the power circuit on the relay. I remember having to think about it for a while before I got it right. If you want to read about my project, you can start here: 986forum.com/forums/boxster-general-discussions/82894-starting-process-installing-997-seats-997-a.html
My heating element on my 986 seats broke. That caused the seat heater to not work. After looking at what it takes to fix it I decided I didn't need heated seats.
I ended up not fixing the heated seat on the drivers side and not hooking up the heated seat on the passenger side. Maybe in the future I'll take a look again. So far I don't miss them.
Hey man, love the content, what model of quick jack do you have? I know that f10 m5 size wont work on f90
They are the 6000ELX.
I’d take the new seats apart and remove the airbag because the explosive is still in there and the car isn’t designed to send the airbag in the correct direction if it ever went off (which they can) if it did it could also set off or react badly with the door airbag
The airbags don’t have power going to them so it’s very unlikely that they would go off. I do want to remove them to save some weight though.
@@LenartoGarage having worked in garages for many years, even airbags that were totally disconnected and out of the car had to be stored in secure heavy duty metal cabinets just in case. Apparently any electrostatic charge has the possibility of setting them off. (More likely when disconnected)
That's good to know, thanks!