Heated Seat

[moonshadow]

The drivers side seat does not heat, light flashes when button pushed. Passenger seat works fine, Switched modules and drivers seat does not heat. Checked continuity and backrest seems fine, seat bottom, no continuity. Looked for an article to remove leather cushion to check element, I unhooked the cable for seat bottom and thought the back might work but same thing, light flashes. do they both have to be hooked up. any easy directions for removing seat cusion, checked out the vogel site but could not find directions.

Thanks

[Dharn55]

If there is no continuity on the seat bottom leads then you have a problem. Not real expensive or very hard to replace per the Vogel article. There is also a relay that can go bad, but if there is no continuity that is probably your problem.

[Gator]

There are two aspects to removing the seat cushion:

a) seat cushion attachment. the cushion itself is secured by two brackets. They are located on the front underside of the cushion. The brackets each have a peg that you need to pull out (I usually use pliers). Once the pegs are out (btw, they are secured to the base of the bracket by a strand of plastic), you need to pop the bracket out. I usually use a larger flat head screwdriver to do this. The bracket is hinged on the front of the seat so you need to get leverage from under the seat. Also, the bottom seat cushion has the seat controls in it. some times the two little phillips screws on the bottom of the seat control panel need to be removed in order to pull the seat cushion out.

B) wiring. the seat cushion has wires routed along the frame and secured via various wire management clips. These can be a pain to find. The wired terminate in the main seat connector underneath the seat. Depending on what you are doing, you might have to pull wires/pins out of the main seat connector to remove the seat cushion from the rest of the seat.

This brings me to a suggestion. I usually find it is easiest to pull the seat out of the car in order to do any work on the seats. To pull the seat you'll need to remove the plastic rail covers on the front rails, then remove the four star bolts (2 under the seat front and 2 rear). I have full power seats so I usually move the seat forward and rearward to remove the bolts. when I am done removing the bolts, I then center the seat. Once the seat is centered, I tilt the whole seat back. This provides me excellent access to the underside of the seat. Most of the time, this is enough access. When it isn't, I pull the seat out of the car and pul it on my workbench.

Hope this helps.

GA

[Gator]

I forgot to mention: if you do unplug the seat, don't turn on the ignition. If you do, the airbag system will fault out and your airbag light will come on and you'll need to reset it. (there are a number of posts dealing with that, just do a search). enjoy, GA

There are two aspects to removing the seat cushion:

a) seat cushion attachment. the cushion itself is secured by two brackets. They are located on the front underside of the cushion. The brackets each have a peg that you need to pull out (I usually use pliers). Once the pegs are out (btw, they are secured to the base of the bracket by a strand of plastic), you need to pop the bracket out. I usually use a larger flat head screwdriver to do this. The bracket is hinged on the front of the seat so you need to get leverage from under the seat. Also, the bottom seat cushion has the seat controls in it. some times the two little phillips screws on the bottom of the seat control panel need to be removed in order to pull the seat cushion out.

B) wiring. the seat cushion has wires routed along the frame and secured via various wire management clips. These can be a pain to find. The wired terminate in the main seat connector underneath the seat. Depending on what you are doing, you might have to pull wires/pins out of the main seat connector to remove the seat cushion from the rest of the seat.

This brings me to a suggestion. I usually find it is easiest to pull the seat out of the car in order to do any work on the seats. To pull the seat you'll need to remove the plastic rail covers on the front rails, then remove the four star bolts (2 under the seat front and 2 rear). I have full power seats so I usually move the seat forward and rearward to remove the bolts. when I am done removing the bolts, I then center the seat. Once the seat is centered, I tilt the whole seat back. This provides me excellent access to the underside of the seat. Most of the time, this is enough access. When it isn't, I pull the seat out of the car and pul it on my workbench.

Hope this helps.

GA

[moonshadow]

Thanks, great info as always