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How To: Mk5 Heated Seats Retrofit
hussnainh8:
Hello,
Here we go again guys!!!
Please someone give me some guidance on this as im about to give up! Does anybody have a wiring diagram for this or knows where the wires go? The car is an edition 30 2007 year.
Trying to fit aftermarket buckets (VXR Recaros) into the car but i dont know how to wire the seats to the car. The recaro seats come with heating, side airbag and seat belt sensor... the seats have the following wires on both seats.
Both seats come with the seat belt occupancy wires (2 black wires).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4piqvk3w0tg6yb/20190318_082356.jpg?dl=0
Both seats come with 4 single wires.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yhvzcuaho7kx038/20190318_082239.jpg?dl=0
Brown
Black
Grey/red
Brown/grey
This is what it looks like from the car side.
Passenger side
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kea2mifb6sg1phh/20190318_082622.jpg?dl=0
Driver side
https://www.dropbox.com/s/82qz1ptuhy21j7y/20190318_082745.jpg?dl=0
Where do each of the wires go from the seats or how can I find out? :( anyone please?? I really want all the features to work as my car came with heating and seat belt warning when the standard tartan seats where installed. Dont want to loose the features.
Thank you.
hussnainh8:
anyone?
jason_rmh:
--- Quote from: hussnainh8 on March 18, 2019, 08:06:29 pm ---Hello,
Here we go again guys!!!
...
--- End quote ---
Do the Vxr seats have any kind of modules underneath like the golf seats did?
Those wires in the picture, has the original connector been chopped off? There should be a connector that will connect to the plug in the floor of the car.
The seats don't simply work from voltage, there are signals from the heater control panel, to CECM to Heated seat module.
If your car is 2007 with factory fitted heated seats, it will have had only one heated seat module, under the passenger seat (drivers seat on a left hand drive).
Most of the info you need is at the start of this guide with regards to the car side of things, but it might not help much if you're missing the modules for you seats.
On the car side, the pins are as follows:
UK Drivers Side:
1 - n/a
2 - n/a
3 - n/a
4 - switch (climate control panel)
5 - ground
6 - n/a
7 - n/a
8 - n/a
9 - n/a
10 - to passenger seat module
UK Passenger Side:
1 - Feed to central electrics module
2 - switch (climate control panel)
3 - power for heated seats (30A fuse)
4 - joins to drivers seat pin 4.
5 - ground
6 - n/a
7 - n/a
8 - n/a
9 - n/a
10 - to passenger seat module
Your best bet is to try and find the wiring diagram for the vxr seats and compare.
Or you could get a set of gold seats, strip them down and retro fit into the vxr seats, then you can just plug and play?
hussnainh8:
--- Quote from: jason_rmh on March 19, 2019, 05:44:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: hussnainh8 on March 18, 2019, 08:06:29 pm ---Hello,
Here we go again guys!!!
...
--- End quote ---
Do the Vxr seats have any kind of modules underneath like the golf seats did?
Those wires in the picture, has the original connector been chopped off? There should be a connector that will connect to the plug in the floor of the car.
The seats don't simply work from voltage, there are signals from the heater control panel, to CECM to Heated seat module.
If your car is 2007 with factory fitted heated seats, it will have had only one heated seat module, under the passenger seat (drivers seat on a left hand drive).
Most of the info you need is at the start of this guide with regards to the car side of things, but it might not help much if you're missing the modules for you seats.
On the car side, the pins are as follows:
UK Drivers Side:
1 - n/a
2 - n/a
3 - n/a
4 - switch (climate control panel)
5 - ground
6 - n/a
7 - n/a
8 - n/a
9 - n/a
10 - to passenger seat module
UK Passenger Side:
1 - Feed to central electrics module
2 - switch (climate control panel)
3 - power for heated seats (30A fuse)
4 - joins to drivers seat pin 4.
5 - ground
6 - n/a
7 - n/a
8 - n/a
9 - n/a
10 - to passenger seat module
Your best bet is to try and find the wiring diagram for the vxr seats and compare.
Or you could get a set of gold seats, strip them down and retro fit into the vxr seats, then you can just plug and play?
--- End quote ---
A huge thank you for replying back to me! Much appreciated....No I cant see any modules other than a bunch of wires. The wiring connector was chopped off when I bought the seats originally. Thank you for the diagram, sounds like I cant do anything without the seat modules ? Maybe I should sell them and get my original Tartan seats back.. I wouldn’t want to attempt stripping them down as I wouldn’t know where to start unless there is a guide on it.
Thanks.
jason_rmh:
Heated seat modules are easy and cheap to get.
So you just need to understand the wiring on the seats themselves and you should be able to sort it out.
Do you know what year / model car the seats came from?
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