[Patthecat]

Hi all,

With "Summer" now in retreat I thought I would investigate why my heated seat has never worked. Google searches only had people complaining about this issue with no fix's so hopefully this will be helpful to someone.

Symptoms:
- seat heating button would immediately turn off
- error code in regards to heating back cushion

Fixing:
1. Remove plastic cover (there are two plastic plugs that hold these in at the bottom)



2. Remove the under side flap. These are only held on by plastic clips/slots



3. One the flap is removed:



4. Here is the wire that feeds the heating pad:



5. Following this wire it turns out that it was somehow cut:



6. I pushed my hand under the the leather cover to see if i could locate the heating pad. I managed to locate the other half of the wires. These are pushed through a hole in the foam padding behind the metal plate shown above. I pulled these out and under the metal plate so i could gain access:



7. Quick trip to Maplins to get some wire to connect both ends. Tipped these with solder and tripped the other ends:





8. Solder everything together, heat shrink it up and go mad with the insulating tape. I also taped the wires out of the way to try and avoid this happening again:



9. Moment of truth!:



Fully functioning heated seats! The process took around 50 mins (mainly working out how to dismantle the seat!) and does not require any specialist tools.

[thesanchez]

Excellent work. Always nice to see someone successfully diagnose and fix a problem. Hopefully it will help someone else out too.

Reminds me, I still need to replace the pump for my lardosis pad! From your DIY it looks like it should be an easy job.