So my friend (snowman89) has a 95 maxima with black leather then got into a rather unfortunate accident which lead him to buying a 97 maxima!
Only problem was his new one had grey cloth interior and he wasn't please with that.
So we decided to do a leather swap and take pictures of our progess.
It suprisingly did not take long, only like an hour and some.

One thing we tried to do was make the heated seats from the 95 work in the 97 by rigging the wires while still having power seats.
Unfortunately we could not make the seats move and have heat running to them, so the heat works but at the expense of the moving forward and back.
So here are some picture of the swap!

LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!

 

Some before pictures..

 

Some pictures when the seats were removed...

 

 

and the final product.. (with black nismo floor mats)

 

 

Maybe I'm missing something here, but where are the pics of the leather seats after they were installed?

 

Oops...I guess you were in the process of posting them lol.

looks good!

 

you beat me to it! i had to resize all the pics so it took me a while. lol Thanks tho!

 

looks good.

 

Looks good but took you guys a bit long if the two of you were working. Do a search, there's a few threads on how to get the heated seats to work, I got mine to work thanks to the org, I believe the wizard was the one who posted pics and stuff

 

We got the heated seats to work, we didnt know they were on until a while down the road, lol. but for some reason the seats dont move, the both front seats are electronic but dont work. We are going to try a couple different things when we get the chance. I will check around though, thanks!

it took us that long because his 97 cloth seats didnt fit in his 95 car, it was a wierd matchup but his 95 leather fit in the 97. And the wiring process took alittle.

 

http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...eats-95-a.html

 

I thought all the seats had the same mounting points ??

 

Why did the center console have to come out ?

 

Thats what i thought! but for some reason his 97 seats would not line up in his 95, it was really frustrating me! so i bolted what i could since he doesnt drive his 95...yet.

 

....Not sure, more space? ha. I think originally we did it for the heck of it.lol. and to help wire in the heated seats the way that we tried for a ground and such.

 

oh forgot you were wireing in the heated seats. BTW Are you going to sell those grey cloths ??

 

97 seats SHOULD match up on 95... I'm gonna go ahead and take a wild guess by saying these guys were exhausted and didn't realized the has the P side in the D side and vice versa lol

 

didnt think of that, i hope its not something that simple, i would feel stupid. lol. i will check soon.

 

well, neither of them are mine. He is on here on the org (snowman89) but he doesnt go on much. But i will talk to him tomorrow, then let you know.

 

looking real sweet man congrats

 

Looks good bro. I would not recommend a new carpet, the leather swap is really easy, new carpet was really really time consuming!

I bought the circuit breaker for the powered seats off a guy parting out Maxima's on this forum. Haven't installed yet however.

 

Looks good. Im in the prosess of the same thing... Im going from tan cloth to black leather... Kinda wish i had taken b4 and after pics after seein yours

 

We want to do something about the carpet, how long did it take you? and what carpet did you end up using?

 

niceee, and barq's root beer FTW!!!

i'm plsnning on swapping my tan cloth seats for i30 leathers. i really wont care if the heated part of the seats worked, i wish there was a cooling system for the leathers seats for them hot summers...

 

Seriously don't bother. Trust me.

I used stockcarinteriors.com but I think they are all the same. Nothing wrong with the company but its crap compared to the original. When you take the original out you will see the difference.

To put the new one in you will have to cut and trim, took me at least 10 hours including seat and trim removal and re-installation. They give you about 3 feet extra carpet on each dimension, so you can't really eyeball how much to cut off. Therefore installing it is a process of trial and error.

I think you saw it at the Valley Forge meet. It looks good but its crap quality.

 

Heck yeah, Barq's root beer was a must that day!

A cooling system would be real nice, i would normally do without the heated seats but my boy really wanted them.

 

Yeah! That's mine! Haha.

 

Nice.

 

I loved that there were four 4th gens in my driveway

 

Good times...

 

If you look in the first "finished product" picture you can see my black 95 in the corner! Wish i coulda helped but one more woulda just gotten in the way, plus i was haivng my own fun swapping windows! Thanks brian!--- Francis, i need some pictures of my car, put them up!

 

Why is it time consuming. When I did my swap it took me 4 hours..... I did a OEM swap, I guess you get what you pay for OEM FTW.

 

because OEM doesn't require cutting and aftermarket has about a foot of extra carpet in every dimension and no holes.

 

[quote=Nismo95Max;7573980]If you look in the first "finished product" picture you can see my black 95 in the corner! [quote]

post #32 has a pic of your car

 

how do i know if i have heated seats? mine are electric black leather really really clean seats but not sure if they have heated seats lol.

how could i check?

 

stock heated seats come with 2 buttons for the switch on the center console right after the cupholders.

 

won't you change to leather pad inserts in door panels too?

 

You would know, i have black leather all power but no heated seats either.