gordoncoll
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can I retro fit them?
what wiring will the seats have hanging about if they have the elements in?
what wiring will the seats have hanging about if they have the elements in?
gordoncoll
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kust the heaterrs !! my hse must be te only one on the planet without heated seats !
Nodge68
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I thought heated seats were standard in the SE and HSE.
It's easier to replace the seats, than fit the heaters. Fitting the heat pads requires stripping the covers off and fitting the pads. However I believe that the heated seat foams and covers are different between heated and non-heated. Best bet is find some heated seats and fit those.
gordoncoll
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well not on mine ! although I do appear to have a lot of connectors under the seats going nowhere !!!!! is there a way to tell if the poewr for the heaters has been run off to provide power elsewhere ie the cd players in the headrests???
Nodge68
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Are there yellow relays under the seats? It is possible that it has heated seats, but the switches have been replaced with blanking covers.
gordoncoll
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just had a look, there are yellow connectors but as I suspected the wires from them now run to the dvd players in the headrests !!!I will get a photo at some point. there are also connectors coming down from the seats that plug into nothing !!!
gordoncoll
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I have all of that !!!
Nodge68
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Maybe someone has used the heated seat power, to feed DVD player's, disconnecting the seat heaters in the process. I'm 99.9% all SE and HSE had heated seats.
gordoncoll
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looks suspiciously ike that is what has happened. I wonder if it is possible to get the seat heaters back connected!!! they must have blanked off the switches in the dash as well, ****s
gordoncoll
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so they have used the power from the seats but had to disconnect the switches as this would turn the power off when the seats were hot enough and this would have turned the dvd/s off !! knobends. they even put a 12/240 inverter in they could have used the power for that instead
Nodge68
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Seat power is fed with an ignition supply. The relay and seat sensors do the rest.
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gordoncoll
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ok but to keep the dvd players on if they had wires off the heated seats rather than dissconecting and using the wiring you would need the heated seats ON at all times to provide power?? hence disconnecion and removing the switch 
gordoncoll
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It is in for some work tommorow, i will ask the guy if he can work out a power supply for the dvds and reinstate the heated seats !!!!
Nodge68
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The power for the DVDs can be taken from the accessory feed. This is under the centre arm rest, behind the handbrake. That is accessory switched and supplies 20 Amps. This is the same capacity as the seat heater circuit. That's where I would have got the power from anyway. Not from the seat heater circuit.
gordoncoll
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The power for the DVDs can be taken from the accessory feed. This is under the centre arm rest, behind the handbrake. That is accessory switched and supplies 20 Amps. This is the same capacity as the seat heater circuit. That's where I would have got the power from anyway. Not from the seat heater circuit.
Powers the240 inverter in mine
Nodge68
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An inverter will need more than a 20 Amp supply, unless it's a 150 Watt unit . I'd be running a heavier 50 Amp circuit for that a modest size unit.
My 1000 Watt inverter needs a 100 Amp supply. For this reason, I clip it straight onto the battery terminals.
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