We've seen some "interesting" weights quoted for power seats so I dragged the bathroom scale out the the garage and collected some real data.

1999 Camaro Leather Power driver's seat: 40.4 lbs
1999 Camaro Leather manual passenger's seat: 32.2 lbs

Sparco Evo on Camaro adapter and for/aft slider: 37.8 lbs.

So we add a whopping 10.2 lbs per power seat.

Most of us can cut more weight than that off the at the dinner table ... and those weight savings can be easily moved from car to car.

 

I agree; I think the benefits far 'outweigh' (pun intended) the cons of having a power seat. I still don't think one is needed for the passenger seat, though.

 

not that it would weight much but you would have to include the wiring as well.

 

3 feet worth of 3 wires wrapped in electrical tape probably weighs less then what I have in my change holder.

 

Well like I said in the other thread, I wouldn't order it as a standalone, but if it were bundled w/ a pacakge that I wanted, I wouldn't have a problem w/ them. Thats what ended up w/ our Impala. We wanted leather, and ended up w/ power pax seat and heated seats as well. Just part of the deal.

 

I wish my car had power seats? How the hell do you have a car with heated seats but not power seats? IT JUST DOESNT MAKE SENSE! Only GM can do that.



I want a camaro with power leather seats.

 

I want mine with power, leather, heated and a/c seats with a 2 driver memory.

 

Yeah, Me too.

 

Well, if I were a dreamer, I'd take it with manual cloth seats and no A/C....and a live axle, of course. I like power windows though.

However, I'm a realist, and understand perfectly that GM must build for cost efficiency.

 

I never really had a use for power seats. Just pull the lever always worked for me...........then again, I never liked power locks or windows........

 

Only you Art.

 

Interesting stuff Art.
Oh what the hell, 20.4 lbs is 20.4 lbs. Manual seats for me.

 

yeah me too.

 

hmm, the Momo Rookie seat in my 240Z only weighed only 15 lb with its dual ratcheting slider (no adapter required).
Then again, it is a fixed fiberglass shell, no recline action!

I agree that power seats isn't the major weight concern. I'm sure the weight difference between 4th gen manual and 4th gen power seats would be even less than the 10.2 lb difference between 4th gen power seat and Sparco Evo with adapter cited above.

Still, I think power seats should only be an option.

Power windows/locks may as well be standard equipment, though. Way back in the late 80s (early 90s?), Porsche was making a 911 "lightweight", and they used power windows in it because overall they were lighter than the manual windows!

 

I'd like to test sit a Momo Rookie. I like the weight. I went with the Sparco Evo because it was IMO the best of the seats I was able to sit in. It too is a fixed fiberglass shell. There was definitely no effort made to minimize weight on the sliders and adapters.

Actually the 10.2 lbs is the difference between the power and manual Camaro seats. The Sparco falls in between.

I think that's a given. The question out there is if a power passenger seat should be an option, or not offered at all.