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Post by phaeton on Sept 6, 2019 9:02:05 GMT
As Toyota washed their hands at repairing/recovering my drivers seat, they wanted £500 to do it I eventually have contacted a local auto upholsterer he wants £80 to do it on a delivered seat. So I need to take out the seat. As the seat has both pretensioners & airbags I was going to remove the earth strap on the battery, however the seat movement is electric, so is it move back, undo front bolts, reconnect battery, move the seat forward, disconnect the battery, remove the back bolts & electrical connectors & lift out.
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Post by charliefarlie on Sept 6, 2019 9:11:54 GMT
I removed the seat from my T180 a couple of times. I can’t remember exactly how I did it but it was done in one hit with no need to connect and disconnect. I just undid the battery and took it out.
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Post by phaeton on Sept 6, 2019 9:16:43 GMT
Thanks for that, maybe in the middle position you can get to both sets of bolts, TBH not looked yet.
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Post by shcm on Sept 6, 2019 10:21:11 GMT
While disconnecting the battery is always advisable and always officially recommended, the half of the connector going to the airbag/pre-tensioner squib, in almost all cases, has a built in "shorting bar".
This "bar" drops internally inside the connector, onto the connector pins, when the other half of the connector is removed. The squib is shorted out and therefore any current from what ever source (for the sake of argument electro-static discharge) cannot flow through the squib, so it can't go off (at least not due to electrical means. It's exceedingly unlikely with the ignition off anyway and to be honest, even with it on to a lesser degree).
Some land rover models had a not uncommon problem where the shorting bar would drop even with the connector fully connected and the airbag ECU would then throw a "squib shorted" DTC.
So long as you don't turn the ignition on, you also won't get any airbag DTCs, although most of these kind should probably cancel themselves after several ignition cycles.
Depends how risk-averse you are really, but in my opinion only, it's not as risky as it's made out to be, if you understand what other safeguards are in place and how much current is required to trigger a squib.
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Post by unclebob on Sept 6, 2019 12:06:18 GMT
As Toyota washed their hands at repairing/recovering my drivers seat, they wanted £500 to do it I eventually have contacted a local auto upholsterer he wants £80 to do it on a delivered seat. So I need to take out the seat. As the seat has both pretensioners & airbags I was going to remove the earth strap on the battery, however the seat movement is electric, so is it move back, undo front bolts, reconnect battery, move the seat forward, disconnect the battery, remove the back bolts & electrical connectors & lift out.
If I was doing the job I would take seat forwards and undo rear bolts then seat backwards and out with front bolt ..then disconnect battery, can’t see the seat being earthed through the bolts would think it has an earth in the seat wiring loom 👍🏻 |
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Post by phaeton on Sept 11, 2019 7:52:57 GMT
In the end I took the front bolts out, then moved the seat forward & removed the rear ones, I did er on the side of caution & disconnected the battery I understood the risk was minimal but felt happier.
BEFORE
AFTER it's a very slight shade lighter it looks better the real light, cost £80
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