Heated seat repair

From THE Corrado Forum Knowledge Base

You will need the following:

Knife
Thin-nose pliers
Soldering iron
Solder
Bandage tape

So let's begin

if anyone has a problem with their heated seat, and have ruled out a faulty relay then the guide below may help. I took apart the seat yesterday and managed to fix the heater element which resolved the problem.

Bear in mind the Stealership quoted me a labour cost of £320+VAT+£80 for the new element!

Anyway I hope this helps someone

1. Remove the seat

2. disconnect seat heater plug

3. detach base seat from backrest but do not separate completely - they are held together by the heater loom.
To detach the base seat you push out 3 plastic plugs - but be careful when removing the plastic cover - I broke one of my pins.

Once cover is off you slide off the clip shown in the pic. You will also need to remove the main hinge screw between the backrest and bumseat.

4.Once the two parts are loosely held by the loom only, you need to remove the leather from the base seat. Be prepared for all manner of litter to fall out. I had loads of broken glass come out - evidence of a previous break-in no doubt.

Remove the leather by loosening 4 metal rings (2 on each side) and lift up the leather cover

You will then see the heater element. To expose the wiring cut through the fabric CAREFULLY protecting the element.

From my pic, it looked like the element had burned out as shown, but in fact the element had become detached near the point of origin into the seat. I soldered this back on.

I then covered the exposed wires with sticky bandage tape (the fabric sort).

Refitted everything and hey presto - the seat works!