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How To: Install 07 Grand Prix Seats

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A 355nation How To presented by
beaver76

Project Name
07 GP seats

Project Description
How-to install 2007 Grand Prix seats into your 355

Skill Level
Moderate

Project Vehicle
Make: Chevrolet
Model: Colorado
Year: 2006
Engine: 3.5L
Power windows: Yes
Sun Roof: No

Tools Needed
Basic sockets, screwdrivers, a drill, something to cut thick ass metal, i used a grinder with a cutoff wheel


Project Time
Depends on how fast you work

Project Cost
That can vary from 0 to 1000 plus effort

First thing to start with on this project is to remove all the current mounting rails from the GP seats. This plate will also need to be removed and the tabs cut off.
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The plates will then need to be cut like this to allow room for the seatbelt bracket.
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This cut should line up where bottom seat support dip is.
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Now you need to remove your seats from the truck. Their will be 4 bolts that hold the seat back to the frame rails. These are 10mm bolts and you will have to acess them by pulling the material back from the frame.
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make sure to remove the componets from the passanger side seat for the airbag sensor and place it into the passanger side GP seat. As you can see the 355 rails are going to have to be cut in order for them to mount onto the GP seat.
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A cut will need to be made here an all 4 sides. Get as close as you can to the seatbelt mount but dont cut into it.
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You dont have to cut off as much as I did either just as long as you clear the seat mount.
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now you are ready to start the process of mounting you new seats to the old rails but first measure and make for the holes that will be needed here.
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As you will notice their is a control box under the seat that will need to be left there but this causes a problem for the position sencer. I pulled the bolt and drilled a new hole and bent the bracket over and replaced the bolt.
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This wil need to be moved over a lil bit to clear.
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Here you can see all the wires are in place and this box is ziptied in place.
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I do not have any of the power functions left but I am going to hook up the heated seats sometime. I hope that this will help you with you install even though it may be a little sketchy, lol. This is my first How-To, thanks and I will be glad to answer any questions you have.
 
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#8 ·
theres only one pressure sensor and its in your passenger seat.

its between your seat cushion and metal part of your seat. you take it out and put it the same place. its like 18'' by 18'' of inflated plastic. almost like bubble wrap.
 
#9 ·
Does anyone know if there is a Left side manual seat of if both seats are the same, just positioning? Car-part.com only has electric on the left and manual on the right.
 
#17 ·
Here is a pic of the black leather and gray suede 07 grand prix gxp seats in my regular cab. They are used but still look and feel better than the non reclining bench I had in there before.
 

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#21 ·
i updated this thread with a pic of my passanger seat installed
 
#22 ·
Hey Beave, looks good. Preciate you posting the how to on this. Even though at first I thought there could have been more detail and I had a little trouble following the progression, it definitely helped seeing how you made this work. :thumbup:
 
#26 ·
No man, I don't have any of the power hooked up. The seats were also heated but I'm not using any of it. My stock seats were manual non recliners so I really like these, but I have to use the stock slider bar to move them forward or backward. I don't have a problem with this because you don't really move the seat around much anyway when you find a spot where you like it.

I really like them! They look good and are comfortable.
 
#27 ·
By the way, for future installers of these seats...
The plate shown in the first picture of this how-to is sandwiched between the seat pan and the seat rail that mounts to the cab. I chose to weld a small tab maybe 2" to the forward end of both plates(2 per seat) that allowed me to bolt it to the colorado rail. When you originally place this plate over the colorado rail, you will see that it doesn't reach that front bolt. After drilling the hole in the tab, I was able to bolt this plate to the colorado rail. Then I drilled a hole through the seat pan into this plate a couple inches back from where it originally mounted and bolted the two together there. One other thing, in the how-to there is a pic of the bottom of the seat pan showing arrows(drill here). I cut some of that metal out here so that the upward facing bolt and nut from the colorado rail that bolts to the plate is not keeping the seat pan from sitting down.

This may not make alot of sense unless you have the parts in front of you, but if you do, this will give you an idea of how I tweaked the install...pm or post questions...
 
#28 ·
ok I was just curious, I have the reclining manual buckets right now and seeing that these were manual I was just curious how you got to move them in the right spot. But that makes since. I am planning on getting some of these before I come home from Afghanistan and installing them after I get home. I might ask for some pics later on when I do this for better visual understanding on what I am doing. Probably going to rip all the wiring shit out to be honest since there is a way to make them manual. looks good man and looking forward to getting mine in.
 
#30 ·
well after some looking around I decided to go with a different seat all together. I just got a hell of a deal on a pair of used cobalt SS Recaro seats for the same price that I was looking at for the GP Seats. As soon as I get home I will figure out how to mount them in and also with build a how-to on it. shouldn't be to bad since they are fully manual just like our seats.
 
#31 ·
Just a quick update, got home and took the seats apart tonight to get an idea on what I would need to do, after about an hour or so got the seats apart and from what I can see I am going to just have to drill out the rivets and bolt the rails from the Colorado seats to the cobalt ss recaros. attached is a pic of the seats and once I get some progress done I will be posting a how to. got to love the wife for being ok with putting car parts in the bedroom cause there was no other place to put it while I was gone for 9 months.







yes I realize that they are stained somewhat and the leather isn't the best right now but already got the material to reupholster the seats with a faux leather and black suede (replacing the silver mesh), still not bad for $300, when they are normally $1500.