Seat swap with Sequoia

WellWell · Nov 1, 2024

Hi

Am going to the junk yard to asses how an electric seat can fit a stock SR5 that has manual bench buckets

Question: are the SR5's pre-wired to accept electric adjustable seats.

If not can the wiring loom be robbed off a Sequoia and readily plugged into the standard wiring?

thanks

Burgmane · Nov 2, 2024

shifty` said: ↑

Seating related info ...

For tall people, you can get some added comfort using the SeatJacker product. Be careful of imitations. It's basically an adapter that kicks the front of the seat up. May or may not be useful for folks with power seats.

Yes, people have swapped benches for captains chairs, and vice-versa. Yes, it's possible to add power seats into non-power-seat trucks, the harness to make it a mostly plug-and-play experience is still available from Toyota, for now. Sequoia seats will bolt into the DC, not sure about other trucks, there's a post on that (link)

Heated seats, available in the DC (I've never seen in AC, anyone know if it's a thing?), is also possible to add-on, but there's a myriad of aftermarket kits you could buy also, anyway the instructions are here. The switching is normally done at the center console, but I think I saw there the switches may've become unobtanium recently. Best bet may be finding a donor truck at the junkyard with all the wiring and seat stuff intact.

Seat covers... OEM covers and foams are still available from Toyota but you're looking at $1,000-1,600/seat to do all foams and covers, or $700-900 per seat for OEM covers. There's no "great" aftermarket OEM-quality option out there, Richmond Auto Upholstery, US Auto Upholstery and ther places that sell on eBay are putting out an inferior product. For nice leathers, most go with Katzkin, or just take their vehicle to an upholstery shop, which can be cost effective depending where you are. For cheap cloth covers on your beater, (check this post), Coverking, Covercraft, and Carhartt are two semi-reasonable priced options depending which product you pick.

Someone has replaced their rear DC seating with Sequoia captains chairs, interesting mod, check that here. No clue if the Sequoia captains chairs will bolt up into the Tundra, but it's highly probably.

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https://www.tundras.com/threads/so-you-wanna-buy-just-bought-a-1st-gen-tundra-eh.115928/

Burgmane · Nov 2, 2024

Seems like you may have to run power from driver side to the passenger side under the carpet to make it work, at a minimum. Do the swap and post your findings here I think it would be super helpful to many others on the forum!

shifty` · Nov 2, 2024

Yeah, @WellWell is driving a 2000, so not a DC, so the Sequoia wiring harnesses would be significantly different from their AC/RC truck (DC starts in 2004).

The seat should bolt in. The wiring ... I'd grab it if it was there to aid in retrofit, but this won't be a plug and play operation.

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