MaskedMallard

I'm considering putting / installing vented seats into my leather XJ interior.

Who's done this? How'd you do it? What'd you use? How does it work?

Is it just fans under the seat, with some sort of ductwork going up & into the bottom & back of the seat?

Any pictures of the install you'd care to share, or pictures of the seat you are tearing down to do the install?

OptionXIII

I have no input, other than to ask that if you are successful, please document it! Ventilated seats are a pretty recent thing, so I would expect to pay a bit more than typical junkyard prices if you are looking to swap in seats from another car.

IMO they are the single greatest feature to come to cars this century.

94zj318

Are you planning on doing this to the stock leather seats, or do you have aftermarket seats installed? If they're the stock seats, the ventilation WON'T be very effective without perforations in the seats, as the fans won't have anything to blow through. Your best bet is to just get a set of seat covers (or at least one cover for the driver's seat) that plug into the 12V cigarette lighter, and have built-in fans and perforations.

-Vince

MaskedMallard

As I was digging into this, it was becoming apparent I would need a perforated leather seat. I was hoping to use the original leather.

What seat covers did you use? Can you load up a picture or two?

Ralph77

So stalking Craigslist I came across this:

https://staugustine.craigslist.org/p...358980064.html

I get it is not really what you were looking for but thinking maybe it would give you a way to research this more.
There is a brand indicated in the picture at the top of one of the seats.

MaskedMallard

That isn't a bad price. I wonder how it would wear on the leather?

Lordmonk3y

I actually had an idea for this that I hadn't started working on yet.

The tubing for the ac inside the dash for XJs is just regular plastic conduit tubing. I bet you could get a little pvc splitters T adapter and some additional tubing for a supply line.

As far as making it work in the seat, that seat cover idea is probably a good foundation but if you're trying to go full DIY, I'd get some cheap faux leather seat covers, a small leather hole punch, and then some aquarium tubing.

My plan was to punch four rows of holes where I want the air to come through. The smallest holes that the punch would do, and then I'd run like, four lines, sewed to the back side of the seat cover, and then plugged at the end.

Once everything was in place I was going to take a pin, and poke holes in the aquarium tubing through the leather holes.

The thing I hadn't really figured out yet was how to go from the approximately 1.5" id supply tube down to those tiny little aquarium tube sizes.

I guess you could do a pvc hard tube capped at the end with some small little nipples threaded into the tube. Then slip the aquarium tubing over the nipples. Idk