Yes, the motor will work with just a switch. If the switch is a momentary on off on. The motors on drivers side have sensors to detect a certain location/tilt for a certain driver and remembered by memory module. Need to wire motor like the other seat. Anyway here's what you can do. If you have three wires to a motor and one is ground. Hook up neg of battery to the ground and pos to one wire, see if motor works, if it does, hook pos to other wire to see if motor reverses direction. If that works, hook up each switch to a motor. The switches you have should work. When you do the above motor test do not use the switches, just touch the hot to a wire temporarily to see if motor moves. Make sure you use a 10 amp fuse on the test wire. The lumbar is not hooked to memory. (it is probably a fifth motor or actuator.) Your four motors are horizontal, recline, rear height, front height. This is not a test light test, it is a full power test, either pull a motor connector apart and touch at the contacts or cut the motor wires and test right to the wires coming out of motor. Just one motor at a time. Do not test down stream wiring, make sure you are powering one motor, nothing else!!
You are confused and confusing us. After saying motors on drivers side will only run for just a second, then you try everything and they still won't work, All of a sudden you say "all of the motors run"??? Then at the bottom of the same post you say they only run for a second? That's real , real important and you just ran right over it? You say wires plug into motor. First time I heard that! So is there a connector as part of the motor and the mating harness connector plugs into that?... and you can unplug that and see contacts coming out of motor?
Well anyway if you say all motors work, I hope you mean they work on the drivers side, which is all I want to talk about, then just hook them to a switch with just the wires that make them work and your done.
Do the drivers motors run or don't they, not for a second, do they run?!?!? If they don't run, forget the test light and hook them up as described in this post. Read my instructions carefully.
