Once again another curious question that popped up. Theres this guy who is selling 99SE power leather seats. i asked him if the bolt pattern of 3rd gens would match with the 4th gens. no response yet. Might as well ask you guys.......... CAN 4th Gen MAxima SE leather powered seats Fit in a 3rd gen maxima? or is there modification to be done? hit me up on a reply on this thread.....THANX.....

Hope everyone is staying warm and well during this winter....
unlike me, while parked at a starbucks.....Sum1 reversed into my driver side rear fender.......PICS will BE POSTED UP! soon

Got THE FLU!!! ahhhhh.........

STay well guys...

 

even if the bolt pattern is wrong you can always drill

 

Yea I saw them installed on a 3rd gen. Talk to Juan....shavedmax

 

it can be done but there's a bit of custom fab work necessary for the swap. i put 4th gen rear seats in my car but decided to cancel the project when a set of good condition 3rd gen leather seats came up for sale.
here's a pic of the rear seats.

as you can see it was only half way done...and yes i did end up getting black seat belts.

IMO they're not as comfortable as the 3rd gen rear seats.

 

yes they fit but not without modification, mabey if you pm shavedmax and ask nicely he may give you some pointers.

 

Why would you want to switch to 4th gen seats. I find that my cloth seats are much more confortable than my mom's 99 SE. It fits better to your body and you can tilt the head recliner. Feels almost like a racing bucket.

 

my 3rd gen seats are a little more comfortable even than our 5th gen 3.5 seats

plus the 3rd gen seats look better imo, 4th and 5th gen are just oversized-boxy looking seats

 

any pointers on the rear seat -shock-?
i like the way they look alot more, and i need a new rear seat anyway (sun faded mine and i'd rather not get it recovered)..hopefully someone with black cloth will be kind and hook me up.

 

i know the 3rd gen seats are more comfortable, ive slept in my car on numerous occasions. (its great when you have to work til 4 and be back at 7) and ive tried to fall asleep in a 4th gen and it just aint happenin.

plus i wouldnt ever want to get rid of my back seat, too many fond memories LOL

 

Don't remember who, but I could have sworn someone in the 3rd gen for sale forum was parting out a car w/ black cloth seats.

 

hmmmm...
well the A$$ cushion fits in there no problem...basically a direct swap. as for the back cushion...one of the hardest parts is finding a way to secure the top of the seats(by the rear deck).
what i did was, cut out some foam on the back of the seat and wrap an l-bracket around the metal frame on the seats. then i bent the l-bracket so that it was straight. so now you have 3 l-brackets on the back of the cushion that can slip through the holes in the rear deck (note: the clips that the 3rd gen seats clip into on the rear shelf had to be removed).
so now it kinda sits in position but the l-brackets aren't being held in so the top of the seat is still somewhat loose. so i drilled a hole through each of the l-brackets and from inside the trunk fed a bolt through the hole and that kept nice and snug at the top of the seat...
as for the bottom edges of the back cushion which are screwed in beside the doors they weren't very easy at all...i think i just held them down with some zip ties because there was no way in hell that they could be bolted into the stock position...and the center bolts behind the armrest worked out pretty easy. the bracket that's on the thin cross beam didn't line up very well to the bracket on the back cushion so i just drilled out some more accurate holes and that's basically it

but if i were you, i'd seriously try and talk to shavedmax regarding this project because he completed the front and rear seat swap PLUS he's much better at this sort of thing than i am.

i hope my explanation helped a little though...realistically the only way to do it is just have the seats there and see what works...i think everyone would do this swap a little different than the next guy.

 

I agree with everyone else, I'd just stick with the 3rd gen. seats. They are comfy as hell.

 

Wassup Ali? Hope this helps... http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=213619

 

excellent explanation!
i suppose the only other thing i could ask for is a pic of the top part, i have NO idea what you're talking about there. as far as the side bolting points go, i could care less, right now i have the middle bolts, and the top all secured and the seat is fine.
thanks!

 

i had more pics of the install but they were on my friends computer which crashed a week after i had put them on...

 

can you take more pics of the finished product?

 

nope,
i ended up buying 3rd gen leather seats back in august before i even got around to doing the front 4th gen seats.

 

Remove the GTR emblem before you get flamed!

 

Worry about urs and lemme worry bout mine... wassup with GTR?

 

GTR inappropriately used is ricey

 

get rid of the 5th gen in that sig pic before YOU get flamed.

 

LMAO... wish I'd of thought of that one!

 

well i thought i should add my .02 seeing as i once owned a gtr emblem and got flamed every once and a while for it too.

not to mention the flaming for the nismo banner

 

i kinda miss some of my rice

 

LMAO... ya got me pi$$in in my pants.

 

i thought you might appreciate that.

 

02/03 seats look nice similiar to the 04's look, I agree 95-01's seats arent that attractive.

 

I have a set of nice of 92 manual seats and my 5th generation seats are trashed can I put in my seats from the 92 in whats the little bit of ingenuity i don't care about the power