TOLERANCE STACK Articles

Our stance hasn't changed. A clamped array can't tell an adult from a child or an empty seat, so the passenger airbag will deploy at full force no matter who/what is sitting there. When the OEM or aftermarket seat is available, the right answer is a mount that keeps the load cells working as Toyota designed them.

The large connector at the end of the main trunk is an 11-pin Yazaki housing, confirmed by physical comparison against our existing shop's stock. It's the same connector family used across other Toyota 100-series applications.

This write-up covers the seat bottom only, the cushion and everything underneath it. The seatback is its own animal and we haven't gotten into it yet, partly because the bottom alone turned out to be enough to chew on for one stage of the project. That's not an arbitrary stopping point either. It's where the bottom assembly naturally ends and the seatback assembly begins, and it happens to land at a convenient place to pause anyway, which we'll get to by the end of this.

This article covers what the pressure pad is, how it works, which Toyota platforms use it, how to remove it from your factory seat without destroying it, and what your options are for getting it properly installed into your new scheel-mann Vario F.