1993 Volvo 945 NA Automatic

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WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

I spent the entire evening swapping in the seats Jake and his friend chris found for me. I picked them up last week from Baltimore, right in the harbor near the stadium. It was a fun drive, for whatever reason the GPS took me through DC this time. I left at 8:00 and made it there by 10:15. Awesome.

It was a pretty simple process installing the seats. There are 4 bolts that hold the seat in place, the seatbelt and 2 more bolts that just act as anchors so even if all 4 bolts fail the seat won't go flying.

In order to get to the bolts on the inner side of the seat I went ahead and just pulled out the center console. It's 2 bolts at the bottom of the storage box and 2 under the ebrake then you just pull back gently on the entire thing from the back seat. That'll free up a ton of room.

After that you rock the seat back and disconnect the plugs. I only removed things on the seat side. All the other relays, plugs and modules stayed in the car. Chris, who pulled them from the junkyard was awesome and pulled everything from the donor car so I actually have double and triple of some of the electrical and hardware stuff. Yay spares.



You have to be sure to unplug the seatbelt sensor from under the carpet by the front of the seat. After that the seat is free.

Next was my absolute favorite part, cleaning! Damn near everything you can think of fell into no-man's-land. It's all good though, it's vacuumed out and wiped down some of the grime. I'm just now remembering as I'm typing this that I wanted to grease the rails while I had this kind of access but completely forgot. Oh well. I got to clean up alot of harder to reach parts of the center console too so hell yeah!

Time to throw the seats in!


As I was lowering in the driver seat I realized the plugs for the heated seat on the S90 seats were different than the 940 plug. The S90 also carried an extra plug.
S90 plug on top, 940 plug below.


Both harnesses used 1 black and 1 red wire and carried the same white plug. So I cut off the S90 connector + white plug, yanked out the old 940 connector + white plug from the old seat and soldered it to the S90 seat. Magic! It worked! Props to Joey for messaging me precisely at the moment I was staring at it trying to figure out what to do and talking it through with me to be sure I wasn't gonna set the car on fire lol. Thanks for the soldering iron as well, Justin. We're not going to worry about the quality of my solder, but it's done and it works lol.

The seats feel fan-freaking-tastic there's so much more cushion that I sit a smidgen higher and the bolstering is so good and I can actually feel them on the back of my arms. And they're soo cooommmfffyyyy, I could sit there all day. The power seats work and the bootywarmer works. Happy day. Pics to come in the morning.

Oh other things I've learned recently! I had the Carfax run on this car the other day. It's been in three accidents, one in '09 where it was considered a total loss for a front impact. I can see the remnants for it on the hood. So that answered that question. Another after that, in the same year lol, where it had a rear driver side impact. I suspected something was also done there. You can see the difference in the paint and a spot of overspray. I can't remember the other accident right now.

It's actually been serviced at Volvo dealers or reputable shops it's whole life it seems. It's initially a new jersey car and came to VA in 99 and hasn't left since. I am the ninth owner lol. I think I know what my first set of vanity plates are gonna be now "SEASOND"