Colour Concept heated seats

[Leebob]

Hi all.My heated seats are currently not working and haven't been for some time,so with the cold weather coming ive made an effort to get these bad boys working again.Ive tried changing the relays and that didnt do the trick.So now im looking at changing the elements in the seats.Anyone got any experience in doing this to give me some advice or tips on how best to do it?Any pointers would be much appreciated.

 Thanks Lee

[Mr Blue]

Currently got the same issue with mine. Looking at fitting aftermarket elements as the mk3 ones have broken sensors in the seats and some tracks burnt out.

Do the relays click individualy or both at the same time? Mine only click with the driver side switch which seems like a switch fault.

Seat strip down is very easy but you can easily damage the mk3 heat elements on removal.

I have read negative comments about the Waeco kits (take forever to warm up) and might just order a set of carbon ones.

[Leebob]

Seems to only click on the passenger side.I looked at the waeco kits too.How much are the carbon ones your looking at?

[thai-wronghorse]

Relays should definitely click individually when turned on.

[Mr Blue]

About £60-ish. Try another switch first.

Just trying to figure my loom / switch fault as i split the loom down again and lost the pictures! They are not the standard colours which don't help 

For new heat elements (waeko for example), it looks like you have to leave out/bypass the heat sensors/resistors.
I read somewhere that if the sensors in the pads are faulty then they will stop the elements from working correctly. If that is the case then the aftermarket pads might not be a straight forward swap.

Adding the mk3 switch to a waeko kit may just work on full heat if you can live with that. Still not tested it yet myself but will update.

I'm using a mk2 switch, a mk3 loom and mk3 pads.

The diagram

[Leebob]

The switch on the dash did stop illuminating so weather thats got anything to do with them not working im not sure.What i can say is that only the passenger seat worked ever since ive owned the car(owned it for at least 7yrs now),then noticed one day it wasn't working anymore along with the switch not lighting up on the dash.

[Len]

Sure somebody has done a "how to" on this?

[Leebob]

I did do a search but couldnt find anything.

[Mr Blue]

Think it was a how to on the seat element repair. Can't find it myself.

Are you getting power at the switch and do the relays click? Could just be a simple power issue / blown fuse.

[thai-wronghorse]

An element repair guide would be interesting to see as my passenger seat takes bloody ages to reach tepid.