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      06-28-2018, 11:52 AM   #332
Bmachine
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Drives: '73 BMW 3.0cs
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Super helpful thread indeed, even 7 years after it was created.

I'm also in a situation where I have a pair of e92 sport seats that I am trying to install in an earlier model ('73 3.0cs) that does not have a K-can Bus. It looks like a few people in the last few posts have been trying to find out how to make this work but I did not see any successful solution.

Seems to me there are 5 options:

1. Simplest option is to find a way to get it to work at least once and set all controls to the way you want and then just hope you never want to change them.

2. Find a way to make the seat computer think there is a BUS attached, apparently by sending 5v + to pin 2 and - to pin3. Has anyone actually done this?

3. Get a K-can bus from a parts car and somehow hook it up in the car. (Is that even possible?)

4. Re-wire the seat to bypass the seat computer and send power directly to the control switches

5. Remove the electrical controls and convert everything to manual. Not sure if this is possible either.

Has anyone tried any of these successfully?

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