Hello everyone I am in need of some advice/help. I have a 2016.5 Model S with 2nd Gen seats. I recently purchased the 4th Gen (Tesla Premium) seats and went to install them yesterday. The drivers seat switched over fine except the memory location, seat heater, and power headrest won’t work. As for the passenger seat, the new seat has three wiring harnesses and my car only has two available for connection. Due to the fact that there is still a harness that is not connected, the seat won’t move at all. Is there some sort of adapter I can purchase to turn the three seat harnesses into the two that my car has or is it possible to swap the wiring harnesses out of my old 2nd Gen seat to this new 4th Gen seat? I appreciate any and all help as I’m very desperate and love the new seats. Thanks!!
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2016.5 Model S Seat upgrade/retrofit
- Thread starter tommybell99
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Never figured it out sadly. I still have the other seat sitting around collecting dust
Wiring diagram to swap Model S 1st gen seats into next gen seat car
I recently replaced the next gen front seats in my 2015 Model S with 1st gen seats. The first gen seats are much more comfortable for me. Tesla makes adapters you can buy over the counter to swap the next gen seats into a 1st gen seat car, which makes it very easy. Unfortunately, if you want to...
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Hopefully, that helps you out a bit.
KSG-P85DL+
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@tommybell99 I'm in the same situation as you and with the exact same symptoms you have.
My next course of action is to basically swap the electrical harnesses over from my working seats, to the gen 4 premium seats.
My next course of action is to basically swap the electrical harnesses over from my working seats, to the gen 4 premium seats.
Hey @tommybell99 - did you figure this out? I'm about to buy a 2016 Model S with 3rd Gen seats ansd they're not quite right. The 4th Gen seem much better. Would love to know if you have any tips! Alex
Interesting - does the car software get confused? Would Tesla ever help out with this or are they firmly against it?
Solar40
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I heard you have to take the memory seat module out of the old seat and put it in the new one. the memory should work be fine.
Solar40
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Keep us posted. Never did it before. But I’m sure I read about those memory modules somewhere. If you haven’t already, check the Tesla discord. There are a few people knowledgeable people on there that have done it. I’m sure they know more than I do. Wish I knew someone here on the upper east coast that has done it so I can learn how to do it my self too.
Can you share an invite to the Tesla discord or point me in the direction of how to join?
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Solar40
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Don’t know if you ran across this on discord yet. But great detail write up on 2018 seat installation Retrofitting Gen3/4 seats into 2012-2014 Tesla Model S
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You wouldn’t happen to still have those seats laying around, would you? The driver’s side seat on my 2016.5 just jammed and shredded that flexible driveshaft, so I’m thinking of just replacing the seats entirely.
bartdv
Raven MSLRP-FSD & Classic S60
I know this is old, but I am stuck at this same junction as @tommybell99. 2016.5 Model S. Trying to add 2017 Premium seats. The drivers side has 3 connectors, gray, black, yellow. They all plug in fine, seat controls work (aside from headrest control). The steering wheel will not move anymore.
The passenger seat also has 3 connectors but there is only a gray and yellow connector under the floor carpeting. Passenger seat also does not have a memory module.
Are you suggesting I take the memory module from the old drivers seat and put it into the new passenger seat? The old memory module only has 2 ports to connect while the new memory module on the 2017 seats has 3.
2017 Seat Memory Module - New item by Keith Asazawa
2016 Seat Memory Module - New item by Keith Asazawa
Greatly appreciate any help. Thank you.
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