So i just ordered the black front and back seats out of the 03 TL-S for a steal of a price. $185.00

and somebody sold me a set of black floor mats still in the boxes for 40 bucks..

and i'll be transforming the rest of the interior a little at a time. no rush, i see tons of door panels, consoles, dash pieces etc: all the time on LKQ's inventory.

but decided that all the black and red on the outside doesnt mesh very well with my tan and darker tan interior

so i'll be posting pics eventually along with a few help questions when im installing the front seats and cant find the answers on here through search.. "wiring issues"

ps. i was wondering if you guys with black interior have black roof liners and windshield pillars or is it gray?

thanks for any help and i hope the seats get here in good condition. they are in great shape in the seller's pictures with a warranty.

 

wow good luck w/ that, thats gonna look real hot on your car especially, but as far as the pillars... i'm pretty sure mine is gray w/ black seats but i'll double check later

 

yup....ebony interior w/ gray pillars and headliner here

 

 

tank you veddy much sir...

now give me the black wood in return for woodgrain

 

lol i hate my blackwood, bout to paint them black in a min

 

^^really? I like the "blackwood". Im highly envious of max boost and his "blackwood" steering wheel boneyard find...

sorry rockstar...at one time I would have traded off my trim pieces, but I like em now.

 

wow...... black interior .....whats that website u talkin rockstar...

 

I just got a woodgrain steering wheel from LKQ! I got a really good price on it too, so now my steering wheel will match my wood trim pieces.

 

^ The black wood? Or brown?

 

I like my blackwood

 

 

Hopefully I will get to see your car in person soon, it looks really nice from the pictures and I think that the ebony interior will really set it off.

 

I got brown wood, that is the color of my trim pieces and I have a tan interior.

 

dont i remember you complaining about the heat over there? and you want black interior?

 

I'll give mine to you..just take the ones on the door panel off and gimme yours so I can paint em. Oh and then help with the install again too.

 

im working on my interior a bit myself. trying to make a 2 tone thing going on, with suede pillars and hopefully headliner. so far got the pillars and some of the 2 tone done. the ebony interior does have the ugly grey pillars and headliner unfortunetly.

your fpr should look awesome tho. my seats are remaining black, i was considering spraying the carpet a matching color but its prbly gonna not look so great. ill experiment


oh and removing seats was pretty easy actually. 4 bolts connect the seat to the floor, and the harness is just a clip to pop off. i took them outta my 99 tl in like 15 min first time

 

seats will be going in first... some time next week when they come in... then smaller trim pieces and center console... then the panel's if i can find for a decent price.. dealer wants 500 a POP! lol


and 02 TL-S i wish

i knew nobody would trade.. so imma end up just buying some used....

the tricky part will be the carpet and the dashboard replacement...

 

winter's coming

and i've been parking my car inside my wearhouse at work lately after 11 a.m. or so..

plus once the black interior is complete i'll have on super dark tint by then to ease the heat some...

 

im doing black carpet with my tan interior

 

Nice, I've been looking for the brown wood steering wheel.

 

Good luck with everything Rockstar.

 

I have the FPR with ebony int and my headliner and panels are gray.

 

i had tan interior in mines too and i bought a complete black interior from the junkyard for 350. i wanna trade my wood trim for the black wood trim

 

pics??

 

I dont mind the grey/black combo..?

One thing I would love to do, and this would look kick ass in your case especially Rockstar- is to have red inserts on the center cushion portion of the seats (A-spec?) and maybe even a portion the door panels....

 

so a little progress was made today..

go ALL of the trim pieces inside the cabin except for door panels and console.

and the entire bottom half of dash.. (glove box, steering column, fuse box door).. etc:

but the same seller is letting me have all 4 door panels for 100+shipping..

so it wont be too long hopefully and i'll start putting all of this together.

woot!

 

yea i guess its a personal thing lol. i covered mine with suede actually and put them in, not sure how i feel about it tho, i got the darkest suede i could find and it looks bluish against my ebony dash. maybe once i put the headliner in it'll match up better. or i could see if i can find darker suede somewhere and redo them. i got some of my lower dash painted already, just trying to visualize which pieces i should paint. dont want it looking tacky. found this thread from the 3g guys, its like my inspiration. altho i dont have camel seats...
https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-2004-2008-93/those-camel-parchment-interior-612388/

 

Look for 03 tl-s door panels as they match the seats better. Only the 03 tl-s came with the perforated leather inserts in the door panel like the tl-s seat inserts.

 

hmm let me know how those seats work

i think you might have trouble with some switches.

 

^^^^ theres a few threads explaining what you need to do to get them working.. but they will work just fine with a little tweaking.. the harnesses just wont plug n play at first.

but the seats themselves will bolt straight in.

 

yea with some of the switches you have to use the switch from your old panels and the seat harness to depending on what year your car is and what year the seats came from. i had to convert my harness since i had a 99 and i toke the seats out of a 00

 

any clue which harness and which wires?

ive had my seats malfunction a while now. i dont have the slide function on the driver seat and the rear raise function. everything else works.

and these were from 02-03 tlp seats on my 01

 

i'll be pm'ing you along the way... this will be a new job to tackle for me.. so any help would be useful.. should be starting the install mid-late next week.

got all your functions to work right?

 

no, the driver seat doesnt function 100%...it doesnt slide and the seat doesnt elevate for the rear

 

let me know too im planning to put the TL-S seats in my 99

thanks

 

i got everything to work. the things i had to swap out with my old interior was the window switches and the lock and unlock switch, the side window switch and i had to repin my seat harness to the 00 seat harness. i cut the 00 connector from the car and repin it into my 99. other than that thats all i can remember. as soon as i find some type s seats ill prob have to repin the harness again unless the type s seats harness is like the 00

 

i think you have to repin the harness. thats wat i did to make the 00 seat work in my 99. my 99 connector was smaller than the 00

 

seats and all the trim came in this morning.. back seat is in.. and some of the trim pieces... front will be a two day job b/c im doing it on my lunch break...

would do them at home but its a "suprise" and my fiancee doesnt know i bought them

will she be happy? probably not.. but after the anger will come the "wow" factor i hope.

pics soon of the seats and trim..