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    E38 comfort seats into my touring?

    So I have a twisted passenger seat and I'm not sure how much it'll cost for me to get it fixed but my friend offered me two black e38 comfort seats for $150. The seats are like mint condition too.
    My question is, its from a 2001 740il and my wagon is a early 99 528iT build. Will the seats be a plug and play situation? Will I have to do any modifying to make them fit? Or should I just pay someone to fix my seat.

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    If your plugs are the same shape - yes. I have a 12/98 build 540it - they use the same plugs as the later seats

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    I had scored a set of E38 comforts off of a really clean '01 E38 for $25 a seat at a local yard last summer, my 528 wagon is a 12/99 build, it was plug and play, although, the heated seats don't work. I have not checked the fuses, lol, maybe do it this summer, when it's hot as hell.... But everything else works properly.
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    The repair is pretty simple, as long as you can get the seat out of the car. I did this a couple weeks ago on my passenger seat. Didn't have to buy anything, just took labor.
    '98 M3 5spd - '03 540it 6spd M-Sport

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    I put E38 seats in my 3/1999 build 528. The seats will either have a yellow or black connector. (i believe yellow is the later version).

    The E38 seats plugged and bolted right in and every function on the E38 seat works normally. Heat and additional power adjustments included.

    If the connectors don't match, I believe you can repin either connector to work but i'm not familiar with the process.

    -Tim

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    If you decide to keep your current seats and like them, there are a couple of good twisted seat repair threads on M5Board and on this forum.

    http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/e39...at-repair.html

    Also here.
    http://speed.academy/bmw-e39-twisted...heap-free-fix/

    I used these links to repair mine a few months ago. Still G2G!
    Last edited by Rossagge; 04-11-2018 at 09:29 PM.
    Ed
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    Keep on modding and fixing!..

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