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[TheBoy]

Seat heaters won't work, for reasons suggested, also you need to tell your insurance company that you have downgraded some of the saftey systems in the car (removed the active head restraints).

Pretty much, you cannot swap seats between prefacelift, minifacelift and facelift models.

[whippit]

[whippit]

Right, I trial fitted the passenger seat, and can confirm that theres no additional wiring required for the seat movers, just plug and play (The spare plug is for the memory I think)

My plan for the seat heaters is to operate from a relay switched from the on/off bulb on the rotary controller, ok so they will not be variable just on or off but should work ok, just need to sort a wiring diagram out as haynes does not cover facelift.

As for the insurance implications on the active head restraints......I hear what your saying.

One more thing, on the MiniFL are there only 2 rear headrests?

[MutantCav]

Nope...3 headrests, one must have fallen out in transit as there were 3 to start with...

Will get the bolts in the post to you 1st class Monday

[TheBoy]

Right, I trial fitted the passenger seat, and can confirm that theres no additional wiring required for the seat movers, just plug and play (The spare plug is for the memory I think)

My plan for the seat heaters is to operate from a relay switched from the on/off bulb on the rotary controller, ok so they will not be variable just on or off but should work ok, just need to sort a wiring diagram out as haynes does not cover facelift.

As for the insurance implications on the active head restraints......I hear what your saying.

One more thing, on the MiniFL are there only 2 rear headrests?

I think you will struggle with the heaters. If you want heaters, you are going to be so much better off buying the correct seats.


Passenger seat will always just plug in for movement, drivers needs some wiring tweaks.

[whippit]

Cheers
Don't suppose you can be more specific on the tweaks required for the drivers side?
Struggling to get a wiring diagram for the facelift. Probably just have to buzz it through.
As for the heaters.....I enjoy a challenge and I am an electronics engineer by trade so I dont think this should be too difficult

[TheBoy]

Cheers
Don't suppose you can be more specific on the tweaks required for the drivers side?
Struggling to get a wiring diagram for the facelift. Probably just have to buzz it through.
As for the heaters.....I enjoy a challenge and I am an electronics engineer by trade so I dont think this should be too difficult

If you have a Haynes (seat ecus and wiring (for movement) is same for all Elites), its quite obvious - its just providing 12v and 0v to right places. Look at the connector under seat, you can see one is obviously power, but gets power from more than just the 2 pin main power connector at the sill. Mod it so all power does come from that sill connector


Minifacelift heater may just need 12v supply, as I think its a simple affair.  Facelifts have a controller in the seat, which is probably little more than a thermostat.