Putting GXP seats in my SE that came with heated leather

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Putting GXP seats in my SE that came with heated leather

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My SE came with heated leather seats, manual recline and lumbar. I am putting in GXP seats with full power adjustments. Passenger seat works fine, but no power adjustments work on the drivers seat. The gxp seat does have an extra black module which I assume is the seat memory module. Has anyone had any luck making the memory seat work in a non-memory car? I’d like to keep all the adjustment functions. Would I need to get the whole harness from the gxp door that includes the memory button on the door panel?
02 SE 111K Florida car that I drove back to Michigan. GXP seats.
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Re: Putting GXP seats in my SE that came with heated leather

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You simply need to add a power source to that memory module. The memory won't work, but the but module needs power to be able to power the rest of the seat.

You will obviously have power at the large orange A4 wire, but make sure you have power going to A9 and B5.
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Re: Putting GXP seats in my SE that came with heated leather

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harofreak00 wrote:You simply need to add a power source to that memory module. The memory won't work, but the but module needs power to be able to power the rest of the seat.

You will obviously have power at the large orange A4 wire, but make sure you have power going to A9 and B5.
Thanks I’ll try that!
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Re: Putting GXP seats in my SE that came with heated leather

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harofreak00 wrote:You simply need to add a power source to that memory module. The memory won't work, but the but module needs power to be able to power the rest of the seat.

You will obviously have power at the large orange A4 wire, but make sure you have power going to A9 and B5.
You are the man! Thanks again!
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Re: Putting GXP seats in my SE that came with heated leather

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No problem man. I deal with this a lot because I sell these seats to guys who put them in their hot rods and can't figure out why they don't work.
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