E36 Power seats in my e30?

[BoxDriver86]

Hey folks, my favorite local U-Pull has a nice set of M3 power seats for a great price. Any chance I could install these functionally in my 86 e30?

If so, what all do I need to snag from the yard and what parts from an e30 do I need (assuming that e30s ever came with power seats, which I am not sure).

Thanks in advance for all of your help!

I tried that already, nothing directly answering the question.

[bmwguy87]

Never heard of putting power seats in an E30 but I did have manual vadars in my E30. I'm guessing you need to get a bunch of the wiring and build your own wiring harness. Plus the power seats are alot heavier then manual ones.

[browntown]

^^ All true. Vaders are awesome though. I *think* I've seen power seats before using the heated seats wiring looms. I don't want to be responsible for bad info though, so keep looking.

[blocke]

e36 power

I've got e46 powered sports in my car. The seats already had their own wiring harness, all I had to do was run extra wiring from the fusebox for power, and ground them out. Everything works, including the memory functions.

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=153835

The seats should have thier own wiring harness, and plug. Just pull contant 12v from somewhere.

[BoxDriver86]

Heavy isn't too much of a concern as my e30 is my work car. I've got the wiring planned out but I still need to make some brackets. Once I get everything sorted...and more importantly safe...then I'll post up a write-up. Thanks to the previous poster for the info...it proved very helpful.