Re: Celica seat 'experiment'...

Interesting. The seat is an inch and a half to two inches lower than the

> stock Scion seat, and you sit IN it rather than ON it. The seat cushion > extends further out, which I like. > > However, I was onlyt able to locate two of the mounting bolts, and since I > put it in at dusk I didn't check the airbag sensor connector (I didn't > realize it had one until the airbag light came on and stayed on.) > > The clutch is a LOT easier to work with the lower seat height! I have > never stalled a 5 speed so much in my life as in this car, but now it's > great. > > The only drawback is that I'm STILL to close to the pedals, and my legs > are still 'folded up'. > > I might make some brackets to locate the seat a bit further back. > > One more thing: on the 60 mile trip to pick up the Celica seat, I never > did get "ass fatigue". It actually is a comfortable seat, but I like > sitting in the seat rather than on it. > > Also, I haven't verified this, but I have heard the Celica seats were made > by Recaro. >

If you are talking about the Celica GTS seats with the inflatable lumbar support that you inflated with a squeeze bulb, they were not made by Recaro. I'd guess that they were assembled by Toyota Boshoku, Toyota's interior parts subsidiary. I remember the GTS being in short supply because parts of the seats were made by a small mom and pop operation that had difficulty gearing up for the unexpected demand.

The seats were a big hit with car thieves, and replacements were not initially not available as an assembly so dealers had to order the pieces of the seat for theft replacements.

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Ray O
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Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B wrote in news:i5pp9k$l7p$ snipped-for-privacy@tioat.net:

A thought occurs to me. I took a ride in a vintage 240z once and the first thing that struck me after I got in was the backward tilt of the seat. That certainly was a comfortable seating position and it would lengthen the leg room. I have no idea if that's applicable to your car or if it's not already done, but there it is.

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chuckcar

The seats in the GT or ST are even more likely to be assembled by Toyota Boshoku.

Use a meter to see if the sensor just closes a circuit when someone is in the seat. If so, just short the connectors on the harness side.

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Ray O

The sensors may actually be there to determine the size of the person in the seats to vary the force of the airbag deployment. I think it's just a simple two setting system where it is used. It will likely be something very simple in either case.

Moving the sensor to the 'new' seats may be possible depending on how it's mounted. Just bridging the sensor may produce undesirable results of passenger airbags deploying when only the driver is present or deploying at the wrong force.

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Brent

It means a fault in the system has been detected. You'll need the detailed information from the manufacturer to determine how various faults are handled. In this case it would be the missing seat sensor(s). For that there may be a default setting that is used in a collision since the rest of the system is operational.

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Brent

This is where a daily subscription to techinfo.toyota.com might be worth the expense. ;-)

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Ray O

I've thought about it, but I'm too cheap.

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Ray O

Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B wrote in news:i5sakg$bim$ snipped-for-privacy@tioat.net:

The seat in the 240 was tilted at least 30 degrees if memory serves. It was by no means subtle and it had nothing to do with the cushions.

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chuckcar

If the light is on the system is disabled. That is the requirement for the airbags and ABS systems.

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Steve W.

I would just download the entire pdf section on whatever I was working on, plus any applicable TSB's, and the spec section at the back.

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Ray O

I believe that it is the same thing in pdf format.

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Ray O

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