Re: C5 - skinning the Ostrich
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:44 am
I know @Donald will be mortified, but the Ostrich has started to lose its feathers...
Thanks very very much to @confused for picking up/hanging on to/couriering these down to Colchester for me over the course of evenings this week I have done this:
No before pictures of the back, but here is after;
Everything needed a damn good clean under the rear seats and the replacements needed some scrubbing to remove stuck on remnants of boiled sweets etc.
The leather seats come with a few extra toys in the back I wasn't expecting;
Arm rest
With a cubby hole inside
And some pull out cup holders
Front before;
Lifting the seat (passenger side) reveals this plastic loom guide and cover over the plugs for the seatbelt clip sensor/side airbags (plus obligatory Maccy D's chip )
Under which are the connectors.
Blue is the connector ready for the electric seats, yellow is the airbag connector (which because I'm a rebel/lazy I just unplugged with the battery still connected but ignition off - I just couldn't face doing any BSI reset cobblers or potential ECU gremlins after).
Corresponding drivers side, which has 3 connectors (airbag connector hidden in this pic);
All stripped out, including the centre console, because I thought this was an opportune time to clear up the half a cup of coffee that I had emptied into it a month ago
Clean
No evidence of coffee runs any more
The breakers had been typically heavy handed when removing the looms, breaking the loom guides (plugs were intact though)
So I had to swap the loom guide over from the old seat
I think this loom is for the autochanger, which annoyingly they had removed from the seat so I've left it out for now, hopefully pick one up soon and I'll fit it then (all the wiring is there for it);
So after the seats are installed, power to them is dead. The 4x30A fuses in the internal fuse box were already there on my car, but there's an 80A maxi-fuse that needs to be installed in the engine bay fuse box;
Having read guides on line, people said that looms need to be unplugged in order to lift it out, but I found that wasn't necessary - release the three clips with a screwdriver and it's possible to lift it up and tilt to get access;
Extra 80A maxi-fuse installed;
Table of the maxi fuses from my Citroen C5 Estate wiring manual, for info...
Sorted
Door cards are next, but they're not going in until I've painted the fake wood trim a nice silver (and picked up the bits to convert the rear door windows to electric operation).
Thanks very very much to @confused for picking up/hanging on to/couriering these down to Colchester for me over the course of evenings this week I have done this:
No before pictures of the back, but here is after;
Everything needed a damn good clean under the rear seats and the replacements needed some scrubbing to remove stuck on remnants of boiled sweets etc.
The leather seats come with a few extra toys in the back I wasn't expecting;
Arm rest
With a cubby hole inside
And some pull out cup holders
Front before;
Lifting the seat (passenger side) reveals this plastic loom guide and cover over the plugs for the seatbelt clip sensor/side airbags (plus obligatory Maccy D's chip )
Under which are the connectors.
Blue is the connector ready for the electric seats, yellow is the airbag connector (which because I'm a rebel/lazy I just unplugged with the battery still connected but ignition off - I just couldn't face doing any BSI reset cobblers or potential ECU gremlins after).
Corresponding drivers side, which has 3 connectors (airbag connector hidden in this pic);
All stripped out, including the centre console, because I thought this was an opportune time to clear up the half a cup of coffee that I had emptied into it a month ago
Clean
No evidence of coffee runs any more
The breakers had been typically heavy handed when removing the looms, breaking the loom guides (plugs were intact though)
So I had to swap the loom guide over from the old seat
I think this loom is for the autochanger, which annoyingly they had removed from the seat so I've left it out for now, hopefully pick one up soon and I'll fit it then (all the wiring is there for it);
So after the seats are installed, power to them is dead. The 4x30A fuses in the internal fuse box were already there on my car, but there's an 80A maxi-fuse that needs to be installed in the engine bay fuse box;
Having read guides on line, people said that looms need to be unplugged in order to lift it out, but I found that wasn't necessary - release the three clips with a screwdriver and it's possible to lift it up and tilt to get access;
Extra 80A maxi-fuse installed;
Table of the maxi fuses from my Citroen C5 Estate wiring manual, for info...
Sorted
Door cards are next, but they're not going in until I've painted the fake wood trim a nice silver (and picked up the bits to convert the rear door windows to electric operation).