For anyone who this helps.
The airbag and seat heating connectors where exactly the same on the single as on the double seat. The seat was plug and play, no dashboard errors.
Swapping a double with heating and airbag for a single with seating and airbag is 100% compatible.
There is a seat occupancy sensor in the single but as the double doesn't seem to have this, the van didn't have the option to connect one to the seat. Replacing no seat with no seat sensor is not a problem.
Thanks for this info. Appreciate you taking time to feedback on your outcome . I fitted a driver swivel yesterday (RIB) into our t6.1 shuttle. Plan was to also install the Kiravans double swivel on the passenger side as have double bench seat and the new style Kiravans double swivel has the ‘holey’ bolt in the centre to pass any seat related wiring through. Trouble is, I’m not entirely happy with the way Kiravans suggest patching any needed seat wires to extend them through the central holey bolt.
In the Shuttle we have, there’s only one seat related connector which is the side air bag (3 wire type: green, white and brown). The other ‘connectors’ under the double bench seat currently are the front and rear loom connectors and the 11 way blade fuse strip/block (with two 20A fuses in). I’m still deliberating best way through situation but really don’t want to splice the airbag wiring to install the supplied ‘extension’ wires to allow them to pass through the new design hollow central ‘holey’ bolt in the double swivel. While I have to credit Kiravans for what looks like a quality product and progressive design approach with the bottom plate and carpet to cover the swivel once installed, and also redesigning the central bolt to allow wires to pass through, I’m not entirely happy with the way Kiravans are suggesting splicing and extending a patch cable into what is an SRS system.
My suggestion would be to create a bigger diameter ‘holey bolt’ and if this was generally more substantial to accommodate a larger central hollow diameter, I reckon you could have it such that the seat connectors would pass through without having to splice. I appreciate that’s easy me saying this based on one set of circumstances I’m faced with. I’m guessing, if they could have designed in a larger diameter central hollow bolt they would have.
Anyway, the reason I’m responding here, to thank you
@mispeltyouth is that one of the ‘options’ to get through our situation is to do-away with the double Shuttle passenger seat upfront and install a single seat and put it on a single swivel (if we don’t source a single with factory swivel). The swivel I installed yesterday on the drivers seat has a large central hole which cabling has no issue passing through and in operation of the swivel, there is no apparent risk of damaging any cables the way they are protected with fabric wrap/tape and the position they are located means they run through the centre of the hole in the swivel.
My only question if we went this route with replacing the double passenger with a single seat, was whether a single seat airbag would somehow have a different connector or airbag ‘setting’ to the current double one we have. The fact you’ve responded saying ‘100% compatible’ is reassuring. As we’ve no heating or occupancy sensor in the double seat currently, if we got a single heated seat with occupancy sensor this would leave us in a similar position to what you mentioned. The van system would only be ‘looking’ for the airbag and won’t be ‘looking’ for heating or seat occupancy. If the single seat airbag connector is the same as double seat then swapping to a single seat is probably the option we can now look at.
Do still need to make sure the airbag system yellow connector in any single seat we source is the same as the one we have in the double seat currently. The connector in your photos is different to ours.
