Does anyone know, please - is it possible / how easy is it to fit an electrically adjustable driver's seat, with the memory facility, to a 2007 Octavia which did not have this feature originally?

Are all the "memory" electrics within the seat, or are the memory settings stored in the ECU / central computer?

If the memory is 'local' (in the seat) I imagine it may be possible to retro-fit such seats.  But if it is 'remote' - in the central computer - then I presume the entire car's wiring system would be different and the central computer would need to be re-programmed - so presumably a retrofit would not be practicable.

(It takes ages for me to get the driver's seat into a really comfortable position and it drives me mad if anyone ever alters it!  Am I alone in this regard?)

I took the drivers electric memory seat out of my Octavia last week to carry out the obligatory under seat airbag wiring fix. When I put the seat back in, to my surprise the memory settings were still stored, which makes me think they are stored in some sort of ECU in the car and not in the seat electronics....which makes sense as the memory function also stores exterior mirror position.     

 

So retrofitting an electric seat and retaining memory function would at the very least be tricky, and probably not practicable. (None of the wiring would exist and the necessary control module would not be in place either) However I imagine it would be possible to get an electric seat to work without memory function (with some wiring mods).

 

Of course the other issue you would have is that the electric seats were only fitted to L&K models....so they are all leather. Unless you want an 'odd' seat, you'd have to source an entire set of leather seats from a L&K.     

you would also need the mirror motors that have memory too

"... This was covered a few months ago ..."  Thanks!  Do you have a link, please?

"How often do you have to adjust the seats?"  Never, except when some clod has moved them.  That is the whole point.  When, after days - or even weeks - of trial-and-error I have at last found a really comfortable position, I want to be able to revert quickly and accurately back to that exact position if the seats ever get moved.

If I was happy to keep fiddling with them and re-adjusting them regulalrly, then I wouldn't need the memory function!

If you are after more comfortable seats you will better off source some off audi a3 or golf mk5/6 as i didn't find l&k ones very comfortable despite various electric adjustments.

If you are after more comfortable seats you will better off source some off audi a3 or golf mk5/6 as i didn't find l&k ones very comfortable despite various electric adjustments.

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Useful to know, thanks!

I do not find the standard seats uncomfortable, I just want to be able to store the optimum position conveniently after I've spent a lot of time getting it adjusted "just right".

It's the memory which is important to me, more than the electric adjustment or the leather.

If you are after more comfortable seats you will better off source some off audi a3 or golf mk5/6 as i didn't find l&k ones very comfortable despite various electric adjustments.

 

That's certainly not my experience. The seats in my L&K are amongst the most comfortable seats I have experienced in any car.    

www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/307637-retrofit-electric-seat-scout-2008/?hl=%2Bretrofit+%2Belectric+%2Bseat#entry36777764

 

www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/231032-retrofitting-electric-driver-seat-with-memory-function/?hl=electric+seat#entry2735539

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Thanx for linx!  No-one says it definitely can't be done, but no-one suggests that it would be easy or cheap.  It would be interesting to know if anyone had actually ever sucessfully done it.

 

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Thanx for linx!  No-one says it definitely can't be done, but no-one suggests that it would be easy or cheap.  

 

Absolutely. Like any car modification, anything is possible if you have the inclination, time and money to do it. However, how much money and time is it worth, when you could just sell your car and buy a L&K model.  

Unfortunately, I don't think there are any 4WD L&K diesel Octavia estates - not even Mk3 ones! 

Here is set going on ebay and I don't see why you can get the cabling off the donor car to get the electrics working.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-2008-MK2-SKODA-OCTAVIA-BLACK-LEATHER-INTERIOR-SEATS-Tel-07511111010-/111262406301?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item19e7c1969d

Of course the other issue you would have is that the electric seats were only fitted to L&K models....so they are all leather. Unless you want an 'odd' seat, you'd have to source an entire set of leather seats from a L&K.     

Part leather, part alcantara.

 

"How often do you have to adjust the seats?"  Never, except when some clod has moved them.  That is the whole point.  When, after days - or even weeks - of trial-and-error I have at last found a really comfortable position, I want to be able to revert quickly and accurately back to that exact position if the seats ever get moved.

If I was happy to keep fiddling with them and re-adjusting them regulalrly, then I wouldn't need the memory function!

Can you not just make subtle marks or tipex where your positions are? You'd only have to really do it for the reclining wheel and the seat height against the frame then you'd have a permanent reference.

 

It is great haveing electric seats though.

 

Can you not just make subtle marks or tipex where your positions are? You'd only have to really do it for the reclining wheel and the seat height against the frame then you'd have a permanent reference.

 

It is great haveing electric seats though.

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I had given serious thought to that, and might end up actually doing so.  It would achieve the main thing I need!

Exact fore-and-aft position is a bit more difficult though.

All the adjustments on some cars (like my gloriously comfortable old Citroen BX) have click stops and I can simply count the clicks.   Unfortunately the Ocatvia adjustments (at least, the crucial backrest-tilt and the lumbar-support) are continuously variable so "counting clicks" does not work.

However I am an old git and I am wary of driving when tired, so on a long journey I often stop for a snooze with the seat tilted back.  It would be lovley just to be able simply to press a button in order to restore immediately and exactly all my "optimum driving comfort" seat position adjustments. 

[Pedant note: I deliberately wrote "continuously variable", not "infinitely variable" which some people often say in error, like when they refer to "infinitely variable" gearboxes which of course they are not!  Even Skoda seats are not variable from zero to infinity ...]

 

Edited 6 April, 201412 yr by Stuarted

Part leather, part alcantara.

 

Only on later models when they started to cut costs. My 2006 has all leather seats.