Lincoln LS seats q's

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I've been doing some custom work on the interior of my Mark VIII and I was wondering....
what year LS's have the cooled / heated seats?
was it all self contained or were their extra componets?
Car they confortable?
all electric and leather?
were their any problems with the seats?

Thanks
 
All the years at least had the option for heated seats and I'm fairly certain the 2003 and up LSes have heated/cooled seats option.

I don't know if it is all self contained, I think there was a box of compnents under the seat?

I know that some owners have had problems with their heated/cooled that have stopped heating and cooling.

All LS seats are electric and leather. I think the newer LSes with the cooling have perforated leather seats.

Mine is a 2K LS and they are comfortable. Sometimes they seem a little hard on the ass but that is only after driving on really long trips (8+ hours)

The leather has held up very well on mine. 6 years and 60k miles and they look damn new. Unlike the leather in my friend's and parents hondas/acuras which look like crap after 10k miles.
 
I'm just looking for a seat that will help prevent "swamp a$$" that I can recover and re-mount in my mark VIII.
 
hot shower and a good bar of soap should get the job done:-)
 
03-06 LS models had heated/cooled seats as an option. The seats are all perforated leather with multiple power adjustments including lumbar.

IIRC, the seats were made by Johnson Controls, and include ductwork to facilitate the heating and cooling feature. The actual heating and cooling is done by a solid state thermoelectric gizmo called a Peltier device. A fan moves the heated or cooled air through the ductwork and out the perforated leather. There are switches on the instrument panel for the seat occupant to select three levels of cooling and three levels of heating. There is also an "auto" mode where the seat is linked with the cabin climate control system (very cool - no pun intended!).

As far as performance goes, they're great. I won't get another car without the cooled seats ever again. Some of the early seats had a problem with crushed ductwork that resulted in an overtemp code and temporary inactivation of the system. There was a TSB to fix this in 2003, and I believe the later systems were redesigned to correct this flaw. Personally, I find the fans to be a bit noisey, but can live with it -- especially on hot muggy days!
 
The climate-controlled (heated & cooled) seats are available in the '03-'06 LS, though not all LSes from those years have them. The heating/cooling unit is self-contained; it uses a peltier device and a couple of ducts and a fan to move the cooled/heated air. The main problem that was reported actually involves the ducts; the one(s) going to the seat back would get crushed, which would prevent the air from flowing, which would, in turn, cause the device to start to overheat, which would ultimately cause the device to shut down. The "fix" involved removing the crushed section of the duct.

As for retrofitting it into a Mark VIII, I have no idea. The device is self-contained within the seat, but its controls are tied into the HVAC system, and there's the seat memory that's tied into the DDM somehow...
 
so was it an option or standard on 03 - 06 LS? what about the Air bag did they all come stock with it?
 
The heated/cooled seats were optional; the seat-mounted airbags were standard.
 
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