Reply With QuoteI fitted one to my T4 many years ago & found the hardest parts were removing the air bag & finding the wiring plug under the floor mat. I had read up on the T4 Forum before I started so I knew what to expect.Originally Posted by Sunny43.5
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Mate asked me a few weeks back to look into making the front seats of a T5 more comfy , so rather than doing his then I pulled my drivers seat out as an experiment {needed a new side panel and foam rebuild anyway } So I modified mine by cutting part of the steel pan on the base of the cushion out . Fitted a door edging trim to the cut edge and then constructed a criscross of elastic webbing across the hole , then glued some special boot liner trim over the webbing and onto the frame . Refitted the seat after replacing the side panel and job done . Verdict very good the seat has more rebound and gives a cushier ride , the seat looks still the same as standard but more softer than stock . So this weekend did both front seats in mates van fitted a pair of pump up lumbar supports into the back rests and replaced the strips of vinyl down both sides of the cushion as they had split , had to do some foam repairs as the sharp metal edges have cut through the foam on the back rest . I will never understand why car makers don't do a better job on the edges as I used to see this problem across the board in my past life ???? So onto the next part fitted a VW bucket seat and seat belts in to the row behind the drivers seat , and finally decided to abuse myself with the ultimate misery by fitting a genuine VW Cruise control . If anyone has done this you will know what I mean. So off tomorrow to get the cruise coded and job is all done . Will post some photos later .
Last edited by Sunny43.5; 23-07-2017 at 06:38 PM.
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I fitted one to my T4 many years ago & found the hardest parts were removing the air bag & finding the wiring plug under the floor mat. I had read up on the T4 Forum before I started so I knew what to expect.
Understand how it works, troubleshoot logically BEFORE replacing parts.
2001 T4 TRAKKA Syncro 2.5TDI,2006 Mk5 2.0TDI Golf manual,2001 Polo 1.4 16V manual [now sold], '09 2.0CR TDI Tiguan manual,
Numerous Mk1 Golf diesels
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T5 is a piece of cake for the air bag , turn wheel 90 degrees stick small screw driver into hole and lever slightly it pops up rotate wheel to oppositte lock repeat and its off just unplug and thats it . The most hardest part was that the VW instructions from factory are wrong !! There are a line of spare holes in the main plug behind the wheel and VW say you connect a particular wire into hole 26 then the rest are plugged in up to hole 31 here is the rub , there are 6 holes and five wires WTF ? so I managed to check the one I did on my work van and realised that 26 was NOT used so I worked backwards from 31 . The next nasty sucker is a single wire has to be connected inside the power connector box under the battery compartment , 16 connectors 4 in a row one on top of each other and two black connectors in two rows . The black one that has to be connected to is yes you guessed it the very bottom row what a nightmare to get to .
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