XLT to leather interior?

ACFarmer · Nov 5, 2013

Has anybody taken a xlt truck with cloth and put leather interior in it? I'm talking factory heated seats and everything. Door panels don't really matter to me, just the seats, center console and making them work like it was a lariat from the factory. Found a truck like, but it's not leather and that's a deal breaker right now.

drunk on diesel · Nov 5, 2013

typically not cost effective vs. just buying the right truck in the first place

Powerstroke Man 6.4 · Nov 5, 2013

ACFarmer said:
Has anybody taken a xlt truck with cloth and put leather interior in it? I'm talking factory heated seats and everything. Door panels don't really matter to me, just the seats, center console and making them work like it was a lariat from the factory. Found a truck like, but it's not leather and that's a deal breaker right now.

You could order katzkin leather seat covers and add the seat heaters option. http://katzkin.com/

co04cobra · Nov 5, 2013

I have been researching on doing it to my truck. Eventually I am going to do it even If I have to change the entire cab harness.

I have an 08 lariat in my parts yard, and so far, from I have found it "looks" like I can get it to be plug n play. The EATC however is not the same it takes a different dash wiring harness.

The part I need to finish checking is seeing if there is factory heated seat switches without EATC.

Dan177 · Nov 5, 2013

My girlfriend just had leather and heated seats put in her Explorer. It was $1500 installed.

CT9AIX · Nov 6, 2013

Powerstroke Man 6.4 said:
You could order katzkin leather seat covers and add the seat heaters option. http://katzkin.com/

I've been eyeballing these too seeing its prob the quickest and easiest way for the truck to not have much downtime. Look like they are really nice, and the factory seats are easy to recover as I've done a few of our company trucks.

I had my current XLT seats covered with some fake leather stuff 5 years ago when I first got the truck and its held up awesome. But now its starting to show signs of wear and going to need to be replace soon.

2good2Btru · Nov 6, 2013

Dan177 said:
My girlfriend just had leather and heated seats put in her Explorer. It was $1500 installed.

They qouted me $1500 to just put leather on my truck!

sootie · Nov 6, 2013

i had a guy buy the seats from the wrecked 05 i have in the classifieds and all he did was cut the footlong pigtail that plugs into the bottom of the seat off right at the main harness that runs accross the cab under the carpet and splice it to the same harness in his xlt.

ACFarmer · Nov 6, 2013

drunk on diesel said:
typically not cost effective vs. just buying the right truck in the first place

That would be great if I could find a cclb 6 speed with leather that wasn't priced ridiculous.

Wayne · Nov 6, 2013

Do katskinz in a unique way, with heater switches on the side of the seats. No big deal IMO. Throwing a manual trans in the deal for a lariat just made things a whole lot harder for ya I think.