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Electric Seat Swap - Just upper cover?

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I have an XL with manual seats and I want to swap the driver's seat out for 10 way power.

In the picture below from car-part.com, a local junkyard has that seat. It's the same Medium Slate cloth as my XL currently.

To save myself effort in swapping the lower seat cover, can I just swap my current upper cloth cover and airbag onto the junkyard electric seat?

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@HammaMan Thanks for the prompt reply.

I searched and found old posts you made about adding heated OEM seats and hooking them up.

I looked at my drivers side seat connector (truck side) and I have terminal 21 populated, red wire. I have a 40a fuse in the engine fuse panel to provide power to this wire.

Does the heated seat power come from terminal 21 also? or an additional wire that will need ran to the HVAC module?

Also, will a Dual climate control module from an XLT work in my XL without dual climate zone? Did Ford offer heated seats without dual zone climate control?

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No, XLT heat comes from the HVAC unit, discrete wires runs to each seat. No simple way to make it work. You could install a switch tapping the power and wire up to the heating elements, but do understand power seat B+ isn't keyed so you could run the batt down not turning them off. You could grab a keyed circuit and run a relay off of it using the seat power for heat as well, more than ample to support its 8 amp load.

I added heated/cooled which is a different beast entirely. Mine came with heated factory, but there's nothing in common with H/C and heated seats. 2 completely different strategies/methods. The HVAC controls can power either method, but not without the wires running from the HVAC unit to the seats. In heated/cooled applications the HVAC talks to the DSM via the can bus. XLT heat has no DSM and the power for seat heat comes from the HVAC panel.

Dunno about dual climate working in XL, @Jesse-Infotainment does though
 

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@HammaMan Thanks for the prompt reply.

I searched and found old posts you made about adding heated OEM seats and hooking them up.

I looked at my drivers side seat connector (truck side) and I have terminal 21 populated, red wire. I have a 40a fuse in the engine fuse panel to provide power to this wire.

Does the heated seat power come from terminal 21 also? or an additional wire that will need ran to the HVAC module?

Also, will a Dual climate control module from an XLT work in my XL without dual climate zone? Did Ford offer heated seats without dual zone climate control?

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@HammaMan Thanks for the prompt reply.

I searched and found old posts you made about adding heated OEM seats and hooking them up.

I looked at my drivers side seat connector (truck side) and I have terminal 21 populated, red wire. I have a 40a fuse in the engine fuse panel to provide power to this wire.

Does the heated seat power come from terminal 21 also? or an additional wire that will need ran to the HVAC module?

Also, will a Dual climate control module from an XLT work in my XL without dual climate zone? Did Ford offer heated seats without dual zone climate control?

DualClimate.jpg
I read a post yesterday about the dual HVAC controls triggering a trouble code (not sure if it illuminates the check engine light or just logs a code) due to not finding the associated hardware for dual climate, in single HVAC vehicles.
 
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I read a post yesterday about the dual HVAC controls triggering a trouble code (not sure if it illuminates the check engine light or just logs a code) due to not finding the associated hardware for dual climate, in single HVAC vehicles.
I read the same one and posted in it. Sounds like Jesse knows how to deal with the situation but I have found a post about it yet.
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