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Treurentner Germany

Sun Oct 21 2018, 03:06pm

Joined: Mar 22 2018

Member No: #3478

Location: Oranienburg

Hi Folks,
I had the same problem on the driver side.
Suddenly the seat heating was permanently off.
I checked the resistance and found that the backrest was ok (resistance around 1 Ohm) but the seat cushion wasn´t ok(resistance infinite).
I took a signaltracker to estimate where the interruption could be. It seamed that the break would near the input wiring to the cushion.
So I decided to cut the foam until that point (approx. two inches from the rear edge.
I found that the wire was burned down on a length of 1 inch, but the wire was finally long enough to reconnect and solder it together again. To finish the work I glued everything together with some Silicone.
Now it works and both heating elements (backrest and seat cushion) are fully functional.
So a repair can be done pretty easily. And you may trick the control with a power resistor of 1 ohm under the seat(in case thats to much efford to have the seat cushion repaired)to have the backrest heated...
Kind regards
Marco

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