What did you do with your GMT400 today...or yesterday....

[Big T]

The right front passenger seat in the 2014 4Runner was getting pretty ratty after 11 years and 393.7K miles. On our trip down down Montana, I picked up a seat from a salvager in Salt Lake City. The material and foam were ok, but the black material did suffer fade from being out in the sun. Still much better than the old. We’re going to address the fade with some black fabric paint/dye. I did swap the seat warmer from the old foam to the replacement foam and we kept the old seatback with seat warmer. I had done the original install of the seat warmers, so this job of redoing seats has become very easy.

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Applied the fabric paint to the seat and it came out pretty good….

 

[Big T]

Applied the fabric paint to the seat and it came out pretty good….View attachment 96460

 

[dbrannon79]

I bet it feels like a new ride, at least on the bottom side!

looks good.

 

[Big T]

I bet it feels like a new ride, at least on the bottom side!

looks good.

As you can see the old was getting ratty. It had 11 years and 394K miles on it. The replacement was from a 2018 with 88K miles on it, so the material and foam were in much better condition. The material faded because they left the seat in the wreck without the doors, exposed to weather for over 300 days. I would prefer to avoid that, but no new wrecks were showing up out west along the expanded routes between Montana and California. There were some other seats, but the salvagers wanted twice as much. So we ended up with this. I literally tossed the seatback and the frame for the seat bottom (rusty). I don’f have room to collect shit I will never use.

And yes, it feels pretty good. The original seatback had no issues with foam or material.

 

[dbrannon79]

on a lot of vehicles the drinkers side bottoms are interchangeable with the captains side. I did this swap on my ram 1500. on the next replacement you might get away with that if you can't find a decent drivers seat.

 

[Big T]

on a lot of vehicles the drinkers side bottoms are interchangeable with the captains side. I did this swap on my ram 1500. on the next replacement you might get away with that if you can't find a decent drivers seat.

This is true for the foam and upholstery part. The cheaper salvage seats typically have the air bag blown in the seatback, but to date I have not used the seatback, only the seat bottom.