Pretty happy with the Sargent that came on my 12, but I wanted to try the new Kaw touring seat part no 99994-0500. So I ordered one.
I received the new seat but the part no is 53066-0465 (-0464 is also etched on the seat pan). Parts fiches show this as the stock seat from the last couple of model years and the 99994 seat as the accessory touring seat. Two different part numbers and listed in two different sections of the fiche. So I sent that one back and ordered a 99994 seat from another vendor. I received the exact same part no ... a 53066 seat! Funny though, both seats came in boxes labeled as 99994 touring seats with inner packaging labeled as 53066 seats.
Am I a conspiracy theorist for thinking one of the distributors is trying to unload difficult to sell stock seats, or are these the very same seat but with a different part number?
Thanks for the descriptive help. I can't seem to get my pics to attach. Comparing the seat to stock photos and the accessory catalog photos, the 53066 "looks" like the 99994 touring seat. Stitching and cover matches. But I do not have a stock seat to compare thickness. The p/n 99994 is nowhere on the seat pan, only the 53066 number.
Regardless, it does not make sense for the same seat to have two different part numbers and Iisted in two different sections of the parts diagrams. Overthinking? Probably. If it weren't such an expensive seat I'd mount it up and try it but then I own it.
Am I wrong to expect factory parts to have only one specific part number?
Seems to me the seat should only have one part number! A guy was trying to sell a seat on eBay as a Kawasaki touring seat and it wasn’t one, I,let him know but he left the add up the same.
If it is comfortable after 100 miles, you have the touring seat. If you feel as if you are a contestant on the new hit reality series, "A$$ Torture Survivor," then you have the stock seat.
Is the picture that fartymarty posted the same seat you received? That is the Touring seat, $650 @ Partzilla 😳, they were like $420 when I first looked for one and I bought a used one for $350ish!
Looks the same. $500 if you shop carefully. Still pretty pricey vs a full custom. But if it's not the "real" touring seat it's not worth half that.
fire away and tell me why I'm wrong about the seats.
FM, the 09s had the two tone seat as well
Here is a pic of the 53066-0465-49x seat. It certainly looks the part, but nowhere is the stamped with 99994-0500 number for the accessory touring seat. I wish I had a stock 53066-0464-49L seat to compare against.
Does this help anyone identify?
Right you are! I guess every red 2009 that I've seen in person has had the seat replaced. Thanks
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jimboni, that's looks exactly like the touring seat that I have. (except yours is mounted on a cleaner bike and I have a backrest on mine.)
Probably someone has already answered this and I missed it...but I wonder if there really is any difference between the stock '15 and up seat and the Kawasaki Touring seat other than the cover?
Anyone have both that can tell us how sure they are that there really is a comfort difference and is positive that it's not the same seat with a fancier cover?
There is definitely a difference in the stock and the touring seat. My stock seat was used to build a custom by a builder that rhymes with Spam, sold it and been using the touring seat since, the touring seat stopped me from having a RDL built, I have done 4-500 mile days with out butt problems on the touring seat!
Probably someone has already answered this and I missed it...but I wonder if there really is any difference between the stock '15 and up seat and the Kawasaki Touring seat other than the cover?
Anyone have both that can tell us how sure they are that there really is a comfort difference and is positive that it's not the same seat with a fancier cover?
There is definitely a difference in the stock and the touring seat. My stock seat was used to build a custom by a builder that rhymes with Spam, sold it and been using the touring seat since, the touring seat stopped me from having a RDL built, I have done 4-500 mile days with out butt problems on the touring seat!