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Omega Help Area => Omega Electrical and Audio Help => Topic started by: Omega 37 on 14 December 2009, 22:44:06
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My drivers leather seat gets very hot even on heat setting 1 untill it burns me & smells like the car is about to catch fire. Where is the thermostat? ::)
The pass 1 is fine.
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My drivers leather seat gets very hot even on heat setting 1 untill it burns me & smells like the car is about to catch fire. Where is the thermostat? ::)
The pass 1 is fine.
:-? They only work on an on off switch as far as I'm aware.
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The facelift has variable heat settings.... ;)
Would investigate switch and wiring before using again, TBH...
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mine switch off after about 20min then come back on keeps a steedy temp on bum and back :y
there is a relay some were (in dash) can hear it click on and off when get to temp.
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There is a thermostat sewn into the seat fabric at the lower reas of the seat base on Elite & Leather models, but lesser models with cloth seats have a solid state thermostat.
An absolute pig to change and you are best off regulating with the switch IMHO.
This is a sign of impending failure as the hotspot then burns through & the heater element goes open circuit & stops working :'(
If leather then the element is sewn into the seat cover & the whole lot needs to be swapped, the heather pads for (non-Elite) cloth are separate and could be added to an Elite seat as a repair - if that makes sense.
Repairs to the leather ones are possible, but very very fiddly and just tend to move the hotspot to somewhere else that's the one next most likely to fail :'(
HTH
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I could also check this.
Rusty if you find out where that relay is please let me know.
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i will have a look when i come back from mot.
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jt had a listen and the clicking comes from behind the center console right side above the ash tray on drivers side, dose the same on the other side for the pass side. :y
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Repairs to the leather ones are possible, but very very fiddly and just tend to move the hotspot to somewhere else that's the one next most likely to fail :'(
HTH
My repair has, so far, lasted about 5 years
Shhhh! :-X
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My back gets hotter than my bum. I think a burnt back is better than a burnt arse. :y
I don't think I'm going to try and investigate this one since as soon as I get to the bottom of it, my a/c will have stopped working again in 45 deg C. ;D
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I could also check this.
Rusty if you find out where that relay is please let me know.
There is a relay inside the seat base of leather and Elite cloth seats, but its enclosed inside a small box and not audible in normal circumstances. It also only works if the heated seat is operational as the coil is wired in series with the element for the back.
Normal cloth seats are not controlled by a relay, with the dash switches taking the full seat current (of about 5 amps) on pre/mini facelift models.
HTH
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Normal cloth seats are not controlled by a relay, with the dash switches taking the full seat current (of about 5 amps) on pre/mini facelift models.
HTH
The rears are, cos they're ignition latched. :y :y
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Oh well looks like it's doomed, it is a leather seat on a cdx facelift :(
thanx for the advice
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Oh well looks like it's doomed, it is a leather seat on a cdx facelift :(
thanx for the advice
Nothing is stopping you from removing it & having a look see. It doesn't cost owt, other than your time, and the fix might very well be obvious. :y :y
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yeah your right i am an electrical engineer after all!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-[
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yeah your right i am an electrical engineer after all!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-[
You could go to Maplins ........ clicky (http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=98894&C=email-newsletter&U=09P13-5-A27FT&T=825735) ;D ;D ;D ;D
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i love that place, got me out of trouble many a times lol ;D
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The facelift has variable heat settings.... ;)
Would investigate switch and wiring before using again, TBH...
Ah, didn't know that :-[, as they say, "You learn something new everyday"
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I could also check this.
Rusty if you find out where that relay is please let me know.
There is a relay inside the seat base of leather and Elite cloth seats, but its enclosed inside a small box and not audible in normal circumstances. It also only works if the heated seat is operational as the coil is wired in series with the element for the back.
Normal cloth seats are not controlled by a relay, with the dash switches taking the full seat current (of about 5 amps) on pre/mini facelift models.
HTH
well what is the clicking then as seat get warm it clicks seat gose cold abit then click gose warm again???
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Leather or cloth Rusty?
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cloth frunts, says on there web that there are heat sabilizer on both earth wire to the seats but looked in seat and under the seat and there is nothing, just heating strips and wires nothing els there??
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Its part of the heating pad and is a thermostat as opposed to a relay. Its in the seat cushion pad. IIRC. I'll take a look later as I stripped a cloth seat down some months ago.
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yeah your right i am an electrical engineer after all!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-[
Think yourself lucky. The heat pads on my drivers seat don't work. never something that bothered me till today -2 degs in Northampton :(
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If yrs have not burnt out might be fixable.
I did not attempt to go out today, 160mile round trip in the snow to haverhill or stay in bed then go to the pub. There was only one choice! ;D
Self employed is the only downside so no pay :(