Any electrical guru's in the South East fancy helping a fellow owner out?

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Well, the one day the sun shone last week the sunroof worked - wahey! Back to doing nothing again now, though.

However, at lunchtime I set to the heated seat, firstly continuity testing the entire seat at the plug - nothing. So I then stripped back the seat base, starting on the outer most cushion - the one nearest the drivers door. No continuity, so started poking around and found a breakage. Still no continuity. Then found another breakage. And another. So I isolated the whole panel and still continuity across the rest of the seat, then found ANOTHER breakage over on the transmission tunnel side - basically, it's all f*cked!

So, to save me tearing the whole seat apart, I've thought of two possible solutions:

1. Find a seat base on eBay with a working heated element (unlikely, but possible - particularly if I get a passenger side seat cushion).

2. Buy a heated seat pad from Maplins and wire that in - will possibly lose the seat back heating part, but not so bothered about that.

3. Would a P38 heated seat element fit? One of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Range-Rov...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item27c3e604ce

The question is, with summer approaching and winter well and truly over...can I be arsed?

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My SRS light came on last weekend, I have had similar issues with one of the other vehicles in my little fleet - same issue, wiggle plug under seat and restart, if this does not work remove the plug and solder the connections together. In mine it happened both times after my wife had driven the car and moved the seat way forwards. My front seat heater also does not work - looks like a bit of a mission to change the element !
 
For me the SRS light was caused be a resistor somewhere, apparently. Goodyers reset the fault code but reckon the light will come back on at some point.

With regards to the heated seat element, first thing to do is unplug the connector under the seat and firstly test that the switch is sending power to the plug, and then the continuity of the plug, which will test the whole seat circuit. Chances are the latter will be the problem - I am told it is often just one broken wire, but I've found three already, so don't fancy my chances of fixing it any time soon!
 
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