Interior Swap: 04 Eddie Bauer to 05 King Ranch

Hello all,

Wanted to post a few pictures of the transformation that my 04 interior has taken over the last month. The seats, door panels, grab handles, steering wheel, and center conole were out of an 05 King Ranch. The passenger dash grab handle was lost in transit with the other parts, so I found another one off of an 06 Limited.

They arrived and were not heated as the Recycler had promised, nor in any condition to install right away. After several Spa treatments to the front, a repair to the armrest of one of the rear buckets, MANY rounds of Leather CPR, and removing the leather skins to install aftermarket Rosta heated seats, it's done.

I did run into a few issues I had not anticipated: Ford changed the wiring for the driver power seat drastically for 2005- Memory seat and all, they added 2 large plugs that eventually connected to the 4 smaller ones. Therefore, I had to swap the seat harnesses for the drivers seat. The Driver pre-tensioner (buckle for the seatbelt) was also defective on the donor vehicle, so I was getting an airbag light (Code 33) after the install. I was worried I shorted something when testing for ignition 12v+ power, but the light went out when I swapped the buckle out.

I'm happy with how it came out, and I'll post a few pics. If anyone wants more, I have them and would be happy to post, just didn't want to bore anyone!

Before:



How the seats arrived:




During one of the Spa Treatments:



Done and installed:






Thanks for checking it out!

Boy, those seats came out of some kind of work truck?

I don't think so--they just hadn't been conditioned in a LONG time. Probably since 2005, who knows? I think they came out damn good!

that is OUTSTANDING!!! great swap!!! great pics!!!

Great Swap!

Great work on the leather also!

Oh, you did great work getting them back in shape.

Wow very nice!!!!

Thanks! I'll be doing a separate write-up of the heated seat install, for those that don't have the heated/cooled of the Eddie Bauer--Wasn't really a bad install at all.

kmh1596 said:

Thanks! I'll be doing a separate write-up of the heated seat install, for those that don't have the heated/cooled of the Eddie Bauer--Wasn't really a bad install at all.

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im interested in this

Freeway: Are you contemplating installing new seats? Due to the setup of the vented (perforated) EB seats, I don't believe it would be easy (or possible?) to install an aftermarket heated seat in those seats. If you're re-wrapping them, however, it's definitely a pretty easy install. Will post that tonight or tomorrow.

Nice job, wow, lots of work getting those things up to par. Looks like the previous owner did not give them a lot of love.

I just did the heated seat thing, one of my panels is already defective. So I have to rip it apart again. Where did you put the switch's?

If you look at the picture above that looks across the front row and console, you'll see I put them in the factory location. Luckily, when I purchased the interior from the King Ranch (sans the heated seats that they assured me were there), the console made it here, so I had a fresh one to use. I needed 20mm holes for the switches, and the heated/cooled switches from the old seats were too large of an opening.

I wanted to have them in the factory spot in case I ever install a wood dash kit, that would have cutouts for the Eddie Bauer switches. Rostra is supposedly great about warrantying them (3yrs, 36K miles), if you do have an issue. That, of course, assumes that you went with Rostra.

I'll post more on the heated seat install later tonight. wasn't sure if it'd be of interest.

where did you order the interrior from? i am looking to do the same swapp one day just with a 3rd gen 08 Expy xlt, I mainly just want the 3rd gen king ranch seats at the least.

Looks great. I love the king ranch leather.

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where did you order the interrior from? i am looking to do the same swapp one day just with a 3rd gen 08 Expy xlt, I mainly just want the 3rd gen king ranch seats at the least.

yea i love this idea but how would it look with grey interior

Nathanialson 08 said:

where did you order the interrior from? i am looking to do the same swapp one day just with a 3rd gen 08 Expy xlt, I mainly just want the 3rd gen king ranch seats at the least.

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Nathanialson: Check your PMs.

jjbusa: Tough call on how it would look with a grey interior.. Not much different than the 07+ KRs, in my opinion, being that they use all black other than the seats, if I'm not mistaken?

I don't think the brown would look good with the gray interior. Jmo

I seen some i think it was 07 that was black on the edges and the center was the KR leather! I wanted them but im poor! lol!

These would look good in my truck! lol!