Hi all,
I'm looking for some knowledge I can't find online. Are all x308 seat frames the same?
My 2000 XJR has a wobbly backrest on the driver's seat & I've found out it's the gearbox/hinge thing, but can't see a way to fix it. I've found a seat frame for £30 but before I click buy know I'd like to confirm if my foam etc will fit.
Thanks in advance.

 

I'm almost positive they are except the cushion design. This is from my XJR with the supple finish, I had extra padding put in with the new panel. You can see the original better on the other side.

Here's a link to the X308 Workshop manual,... https://www.dropbox.com/s/vujkjrxklu...anual.pdf?dl=0 ...on page 2121 it begins the seat section. From cover removal to heater replacement to drive motors. I didn't see anywhere it differentiated between the cushions. That should help you.

 

Ta,

I've decided with the price of seats it's worth trying, so I've bought the frame. I'll be collecting it in the middle of next week & will let you know how it goes.

 

Has anyone got a pic of how the seat track potentiometer fits on a memory driver's seat? It's the one thing I forgot to take pics of & can't recall how it fitted.

I've currently got two seats in bits in my front room & need to put one back together to go in the car. The seat I bought wasn't memory so I had to strip them both right down to swap the potentiometers over & now I'm stuck.

 

Forget that, I've finally sorted that bit. Now I can't get the front height adjust gearbox back in & the manual is no help as it says slide them into place. Aye right, when the whole thing is spring loaded & you can't get the gears to line up.

 

To update this so people know in future, the frames are identical & it's an utter sod of a job to swap everything. The Jag workshop manual doesn't show the potentiometers so trying to recall how they lined up & fitted was probably the second worst bit. The worst was getting the front lift gearbox in, it refused for hours & then suddenly slipped in when I didn't do a thing different.

The seat is back in the car & works, I just hope i never need to do that again.

Have a pic of everything in a non-memory, unheated seat. To convert it memory you have to swap the loom & add all the potentiometers, which also need the driveshafts from the seat height gearboxes adding which makes it as easy to reuse the ones from the old seat.

 

Looks and sounds like it was an...ahem..."fun" job.

 

Yeah it was, very.

Now the following day the memory thing has stopped working so when I take the key out the seat no longer slides all the way back. It did yesterday when I put it back in, which is annoying.

I think I've found other threads on it through google, so I'll go have a read. I think I recall a fuse for the memory thinig & obviously I'll recheck the multiplugs - I know the middle one on the seat ECU is for memory as it wasn't there on the donor seat.

 

Hmm further checking have proved the memory settings work for everything except forward/backward. I really hope it's not a potentiometer as that one is the worst to get too & it'd be damn bad timing as I put seat back in working yesterday!

When it stops raining I'll lift the seat & check all the multiplugs etc.