Heated seats... coming soon!

[clk320x]

Wouldn't have thought the wires would matter here, think its the upper control unit (switch pack) which generates the electrical pulses which provide the different stages of heating.

We know now (via Killerhertz) that the facelift switch pack connects to the pre facelift harness, what we don't know is whether there any differences at the seat (or anything else) connections - presumably your seats are pre facelift vintage.

Haven't done this myself, so prepared to be advised to the contrary.

Thanks Martin,

However the Newer harness would connect straight to the pads wouldn’t they? As my seats don’t have heated from the factory there wouldn’t be an input for them? So surely either should work?

I’ll contact K and ask his opinion too

 

[clk320x]

Wouldn't have thought the wires would matter here, think its the upper control unit (switch pack) which generates the electrical pulses which provide the different stages of heating.

We know now (via Killerhertz) that the facelift switch pack connects to the pre facelift harness, what we don't know is whether there any differences at the seat (or anything else) connections - presumably your seats are pre facelift vintage.

Haven't done this myself, so prepared to be advised to the contrary.

Think I’ll get the old style loom, I don’t think it should make a difference, I’d only ever use it on full or off anyway.

K’hertz said that on the one he worked on, the heated seats were plug and play with the new style switches too. Although it had the older loom.

Win win,
cheers Abs

 

[clk320x]

Yes I have some numbers, I had to take my Viano seat apart yesterday to change the foam and have found as follows.
The plug housing that clips to the seat frame. A0009140127
This is half the plug A029 545 08 28.
Faurecia 8301828L this is a vano heated seat pad, this would fit other cars if we can find a direct dealer as it come with the plug fitted.
The two pads have half a plug each that snap together to make one square plug.

The other half of the plug A029 545 09 28

Hi mate,

Please could you confirm if this is correct?
So I need to buy:
2x A029 545 08 28
2x A029 545 09 28

This is the plug on my loom, sorry for the bad quality couldn't get it in focus

Thanks

 

[zenman63]

Hi, Not sure as its a few years ago, there very cheap so go for it.
I have 2 harness on order for the rear seat heating in my ML63 so when they arrive I can confirm.
Well done on finding my old posts.

 

[horatio]

I fitted the pads to my CLK's passenger seat the other day, one seat is doable in an evening. The lights (I used s/h buttons & genuine loom) came on, got strong voltage to the pads but only managed a pathetic luke warm heat at the bottom of the pad which you couldn't even feel through the seat cover. Grrr! I bought Britpart (aka Sh*tpart in the land rover world) carbon pads, I can only assume they are duff or have a weird sensor inside which prevents them from running properly without using the supplied loom.

Taking apart the seat was a faff but not too bad. The end of my fingers ached liked hell afterwards.

 

[horatio]

Ignore my previous post, they actually work ok, they just need to be left 4 or 5 mins to heat up nicely. They aren't quite as hot as the originals but still pretty toasty.
The seats are well built and have a layer of padding between the cover and base which (judging by youtube vids) most cars don't have so it takes a while for the heat to get through. Took a bunch of photo's if anyone wants them.