I was working on a project today and had the driver's interior door panel off. It occurred to me that there may be a way to enable the car to let you, or more importantly your passenger, use their seat memory while moving. I have attached a picture that shows a close up of the wiring that goes to the seat memory controls. From left to right the order is: orange/yellow/red/green/white

Any ideas? Hopefully if we figure this out it will help the community.

 

No, it won't work. Those wires interact with the Body Electrical Area Network (BEAN) and send a command to the BEAN ECU to move the seat. They've done this to reduce the amount of wiring in the car (pretty dramatically) so if the Microsoft - err, Toyota - programmers don't want you to do something they truly make it impossible to change.

There are only a couple of things you can mod with simple wiring changes, like the Nav and the manual mode on the gearshift. Even the power windows go through the BEAN so US customers cannot have auto-rollup windows using the key fob like the rest of the world does. US lawyers are ruining our access to features - which is also why you can't use a preset while driving. The manual controls do work fine though.

 

details on making the manual mode on gear shift? Im guessing this is the thing where you can just pull the paddle to activate the manual mode at any time without moving the gear lever to the S mode?

 

No. This is so you can pull the console shift lever to upshift instead of push.

 

Cool... I didn't know about this shifter reverse thingy.

 

Is your car in the witness protection program?

 

yea, sorry for the poor photo, it was macro mode, getting dark, and me tired of trying to run wires from under the dash to inside the door.