[macRS]

Originally Posted by Drifter2090

Got my comp seats installed! Thanks for all the good info here, it made it very easy.

Are these in an OG M2?

[Drifter2090]

Originally Posted by macRS

Are these in an OG M2?

Yes in my 2017 OG m2

[MotoGear TV]

Originally Posted by Drifter2090

Got my comp seats installed! Thanks for all the good info here, it made it very easy.

How did you get the badges to light up?

[Drifter2090]

Originally Posted by MotoGear TV

How did you get the badges to light up?

I followed this post, was super easy.

Did you find some seats for a video?

This post

[tharaka]

I put heated M2C seats into my OG M2 and somehow lost seat heating

[MotoGear TV]

Originally Posted by Drifter2090

I followed this post, was super easy.

Did you find some seats for a video?

This post

Quite possibly lol, just trying to do all the research ahead of time

[Drifter2090]

Originally Posted by tharaka

I put heated M2C seats into my OG M2 and somehow lost seat heating

Did you swap over the grey modules?

[zcp]

Selling mine if anyone is interested!
Located in VT.

https://f87.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh...1#post29881821

[SM2]

I was hoping the m4 rear side pieces would work looks like I’ll need to use the original part? 🙄

[Sebass]

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[M2OG]

Question for those who have done this swap. I want to reupholster the entire seat so with that in mind I'm looking for damaged seats to save some cash. What I'm finding are some with bend seat rails. Should that be a concern? Or can I swap the rails from my existing seats? Thanks in advance!

[OGM2]

Originally Posted by M2OG

Question for those who have done this swap. I want to reupholster the entire seat so with that in mind I'm looking for damaged seats to save some cash. What I'm finding are some with bend seat rails. Should that be a concern? Or can I swap the rails from my existing seats? Thanks in advance!

This guy swapped his original rails onto M4 seats.

[SM2]

Did you use the M2 rear side pieces underneath the seat belt?

[MikeF87LCI]

Originally Posted by SM2

Did you use the M2 rear side pieces underneath the seat belt?

Yes you re-use original ones as M4 do not fit

[SM2]

Originally Posted by MikeF87LCI

Managed to get the install completed this week. Thanks to everyone that contributed
Have now swapped the M4 logo for the correct m2 M2 ones 👍

Tap into the main connector going into the Junction box(JBE)?

[SM2]

Working on re-stitching some parts.
Relicate
TEX210
1394 & 8842 leaning towards switching to 8842.

[Jack@AUTOID]

Originally Posted by MikeF87LCI

So you need to add an extra pin into the yellow connector that plugs into the bottom of the seat.

This is pin 7, you'll see a terminal in that location for the seat side but obviously not on the vehicle wiring harness.

The part for the terminal is 61130005197, crimp one of these on to a good length of wire. The wire can then be routed to follow the oem wiring harness. I did this while the seats were still out. Removed the plastic trims at the edge of the carpet, ran the wire up the edge of the car to the footwell.

Removed the lower trim panel under the dash and utilised the feed for the footwell lamp. So the footwell light has 4 wires, one earth brown or brown with a trace. Two others that are mainly white with either red or blue trace (these feed ambient light either white or the orange) and then the final wire is red or red with a trace (sorry can't remember exactly) forgot pics also. This one you can tap into for your seat illumination.

Tidy up wiring, secure in place with zip ties if needed and re fit panels. Then repeat for the other side.

So now the seat light works at the same time as the footwell light. So when a door is opened or the main full interior lights are on.

This is not quite the factory method as this would be wired into the FEM control unit.
But my method I found fairly straight forward as I could keep them separate on each side as the other way would need both wires running to one control unit.

I would recommend doing this with the battery disconnected and the seat out. Any more info give me a shout.

Hey bud, plan on doing this to mine but I have manual OG seats at the moment. Did you go from electric to electric or from manual?

[MikeF87LCI]

Originally Posted by Jack@AUTOID

Hey bud, plan on doing this to mine but I have manual OG seats at the moment. Did you go from electric to electric or from manual?

I went from electric to electric, so not sure what’s involved completely installing electric from scratch

[bmwstephen]

Originally Posted by Jack@AUTOID

Hey bud, plan on doing this to mine but I have manual OG seats at the moment. Did you go from electric to electric or from manual?

It is a matter of transfer the cushion and upholstery to your manual seat frame then. that would be a lot easier to do.

[SM2]

Switching the blue stitching getting closer to finishing the driver side.

[SAinSurrey]

Thanks all for all the fantastic information. Finally got the seats fitted and loving them. Always wanted a lighter interior to contrast with my mineral grey exterior.

Rear lower seat cushion is a bit of effort to install as said on other threads and needed some serious strength to get the outer sides to clip in.

[samsamdar]

Made a DIY on how to do the seat emblem lighting wiring for anyone needing help!

https://f87.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=2008606