Is the 86 Electric Sports Seats Left and Right The Same

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Is the 86 Electric Sports Seats Left and Right The Same

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Hi Guys
My 86 Drivers seat is a mess, The leather is cracked and I have a perfect Passanger seat spare at work.
Is the sports front seats the same and all I have to do is swap around external fittings such as Belt clip.
Any ideas would be great.
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As long as it is not memory you're OK to swap. Everything is the same except for the hinge covers, leg bolster switch cover and the seat belt receiver location (as well as the Dr seat belt receptacle having the wire for the warning light).

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I have an '85 with manual. Passenger seat was better than driver so I switched them. A bit of a job.
The seat bases are side specific but the seats are identical. Takes a bit of plug, seat belt and trim swapping but everything will work! Careful with the hinge covers the sport seat ones are becoming harder to find!
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I realize this is a old post. But I wanted to know if the comment about memory seats means that the driver and passenger seats can't be exchanged. I have a '87 M6 and I'd like to know about this possible seat swap idea. Is the memory function tied into the seat or the controller? What about the cable for the seat belt warning light? Does each seat have these items underneath? Can they just be plugged into with switching sides? My driver side is looking a little worn and it would be great to be able to swap sides. Thanks, Dennis
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Driver seat with Memory will not swap with the passenger seat without more extensive work. Somewhat simple for the base as you would swap rails anyway and that section contains the controls but All Motor functions have memory so the harness parts will also need to be swapped. The headrest harmess would also need to be swapped over. Even the mount screws for the motors are different as the memory function is based on a sensor at the cable end at each motor. For me it's best to just restore the driver seat by itself as I have spare skins. PM your needs and I may be able to help.

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Hi Ralph, it has been 8 months since I've been able to work on this car. I don't even recall how bad the driver's seat is damaged. I know....... I'm really abusing my M6. Lot's of excuses, but none the less they are sitting in barn waiting for me to do something. So Ralph, you have M6 seat skins available? I''m interesting in learning what you have and what I may be able to do with them. Send me a message. I'm having problems with doing a PM at the moment. Dennis
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First of all Dennis, please put your location in your profile. I can help if you are in the US. Otherwise someone else can help you but we all need to know where you are so the right person can help you. It's not difficult.

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Hi Ralph, I'm in Genoa Nevada, just south of Carson City and Reno. Dennis
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Ralph, I've tried to send private messages but they get stuck in the "outbox" and I can't figure out why. I've opened them and tried editing them to refresh the PM. But they just don't get delivered. I've got a couple PMs in the outbox going back to December. I'm baffled. Dennis
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The PMs will stay in your Out box until the recipient read them. Nothing you can do about that but wait.
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