Thread: replace driver power seat without any power?

So I am replacing all my 07 GT cloth stock seats with good condition leather ones I found in a junkyard. The problem is there's no power or battery so I can't put the power driver seat forward to get to the bolts. Any suggestions how to get the seat pushed up without power? or how to remove it without pushing the seat forward?

With what? You can't drive another car into the junkyard and there are no batteries in any of the cars. They takers all out and drain all fluids before putting them in yard.

Thanks Scotty. That makes sense actually. I'll try with a portable power supply/jumper.

No I got a small but powerful one. I guess I just need to find a wiring diagram to figure out which wires are power, fwd, reverse, etc.

Can't do that. Didn't I mention this is in a junkyard? There are no battery cables, most of the wires are either cut or missing in the engine and console, no fuse box etc. Gonna have to hack directly into the seat.

seats-driver-power-seat-circuit-1-of-1.pdf I found the actual wiring diagram. thought I would upload it to help anyone else that might need it. Think I might install some dynamat under the carpet now that I got all the seats out.

Now that I got all that figured out. Maybe you guys can help me with this. The wiring harness for my 07 is different than the seat harness on the 05. Not sure what to do here other than maybe ripping the one out of the 05 and splicing it in.

Here's pictured of me holding the connector coming from my car, and the connector on the seat, see the size difference? I'm thinking they added some extra sensors or something for my year.

That's what I figured, thanks for all your quick responses Scotty. Really helps a lot. Noobie mistake. That's why this post is in the Noobie is section. Lol. Thanks again.

Yeah. I'm an electronics technician so that won't be a problem. Will get the car side plugs from the junkyard tommorrow and have that done in 5 minutes.

Not sure if this helps you any but...
Wiring:
05 GP (Connector c311)
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Pin A-Battery Positive Voltage - Orange
Pin B-Driver Heated Seat Cushion Temperature Sensor Low Reference - Yellow
Pin C-Battery Positive Voltage - Orange
Pin D-Driver Heated Seat Relay Control - Purple
Pin E-Heated Seat Cushion Temperature Sensor Signal - Yellow/black stripe
Pin F-Not Used
Pin G-Ground - Black
Pin H-Seat Belt Switch-Left - Black/white stripe
Pin J-M-Not Used.

Ok back to the drawing board. The junkyard wouldn't let me bring a jumper/power supply into the yard. I was like "!, then how the hell am I supposed to remove a power seat if you won't let me apply power to it?"

The ignorant, fat, lazy, A-hole at the counter just looked at me with his lazy eye and a dumbfounded look on his face and said "I don't know, I just don't know"

So I guess I'll try again tomorrow with the Jumpers on the cordless drill battery method. Hopefully they don't protest to me bringing a cordless drill in. And hopefully my drill battery is powerful enough.