Originally Posted by
WabiSabi
Hey Veebs can I ask what sort of cost it is to swap out your seats for HSE? I’ve been thinking about it as our front seats have become quite hard and after 2 hours of driving you really start to feel it. Thanks
I ended up buying a set from TRS in South Australia - about $1600 shipped to me in WA. I then onsold my old seats for $200 - may have been able to get more, but wanted a fast sale as they were in the way.
Not the cheapest exercise, and I lusted after some of the options ex UK (heated, some had rear entertainment etc) - puchase prices substantially lower but shipping made it prohibitive (5 figures).
One note, I did a bit of reading on it, and the seats I have, which are electric, but non-memory are easily added. I needed to add in the seatbelt pre-tensioner (the seats didn't come with it, so just direct swap from my old seats) and run it's cable in to the plug under the seat. The car then recognised everything 'plug and play' (D4 to D4). A lot of literature on D4 seats into a D3, which isn't really relevant.
If you go for memory seats, the answer was less clear, so I avoided. You potentially need to tap in to the canbus to enable more than 'bursts' of movement, plus add buttons to the doorcard (the M123 buttons next to unlock/lock) - it all got a bit much, and given I had no use for memory anyway, I skipped it. No regrets.
2010 TDV6 3.0L Discovery 4 SE, Alaska White, GME XRS-330c, IIDTool BT, Traxide D3-DU Dual Battery Kit, Apple CarPlay, Power and Heated Seat retrofit, Rhino Rack Batwing Awning (Part time install), BFG KO2 for play
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