Member Since: 06 Nov 2018
Location: West Midlands
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Sounds like a possibility hot tub lower and upper pads are available from rimmer bros cost about £65 each so £260 for the front seats plus a pair of modules ?
2nd Dec 2018 3:24 pm
Bartonfields
Member Since: 29 Jan 2015
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 24
Retrofitting heating elements will be a plan B option. Having enquired about it already, the cost is about £500. So I want to pursue the OEM option first if the elements are in place already, with the proper 3 stage buttons on the HVAC panel.
2seaterhero- I managed to take that shot using my phone from the front with the seat pushed right back, it took several attempts though.
2nd Dec 2018 3:31 pm
2seaterhero
Member Since: 06 Nov 2018
Location: West Midlands
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Here's the box with the lid off, 4 plugs inside. Bartonfeilds, the pads I mentioned in previous post are oem as I'm also keen on using LR parts. I'm not sure if I'd need an extra module to go under the seat or whether the pads plug directly into the black box in the photo.
2nd Dec 2018 3:48 pm
2seaterhero
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Location: West Midlands
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2nd Dec 2018 3:49 pm
Bartonfields
Member Since: 29 Jan 2015
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 24
Yes so it looks like we have the same set up, so that's disappointing. Buying the OEM parts like you suggested is an option, it's getting someone to fit them, because I don't have the confidence or know how to do it myself. The £500 I was quoted was for supply and fitting of a non OEM system where they put a switch on the side of the seat. I'll chat with my local independent and see if they can supply and fit OEM parts and what it would cost. If it's about the same cost then it's a definite option.
2nd Dec 2018 4:05 pm
2seaterhero
Member Since: 06 Nov 2018
Location: West Midlands
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Well the oem pads are half the cost of what you've been quoted and I payed £40 for the hvac unit (which I've already installed and wasn't too difficult), I also have an iid tool that's allowed me to activate it in the ccf file's. By the time it's all added up I'll have paid more than your quote but in the long term the iid tool will be used a few times so hopefully be worth it in the end.
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2nd Dec 2018 10:52 pm
Philip1972
Member Since: 10 Mar 2017
Location: Gloucestershire
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The cheapest and easiest way is to buy a pair of HSE seats of e bay and just fit them in your car.
You then sell yours-net cost for me to do that about £100.
They are then just plug and play.
3rd Dec 2018 8:22 am
2seaterhero
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Location: West Midlands
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I'm struggling to find a pair of hse heated seats, in fact I've only seen them in a set of 7 and priced around £900 ! I'm tempted to buy a cheapy over the seat plug in jobbie just to get through this winter and try again in spring.
3rd Dec 2018 6:03 pm
Philip1972
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Location: Gloucestershire
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They do come up at times, just be patient.
I bought a pair two weeks ago for 450
3rd Dec 2018 7:05 pm
Bartonfields
Member Since: 29 Jan 2015
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 24
Hi 2seaterhero have you got any further with the heated seats?
I went down to my local independent and they gave me a price for supplying and fitting OEM elements. They explained that the seat bases were relatively easy to fit, but the seat back were very fiddly and would take a fair bit of time. Estimate was about £280 per seat. I'm considering just getting the seat bases done as it'll work out quite a bit cheaper, then install the backs at a later date.
Beanie mentioned heating modules and I'm a bit confused about what they are and whether I will need them. I've searched the web and can't find out any info. The chap at the independent garage seemed to think that all I needed was the heating elements, plus the HVAC for the dash, which I have already acquired. Beanie, do you have anymore info about these modules?
I'm still on the look out for a set of HSE front seats as an alternative, but they have to be in Almond trim to match my interior, so I doubt if I'll find any.
The hvac panel doesn’t control the heating elements.
It turns them on and off, there is a seat ECU for the heating elements that regulates the heat, without this there nothing to plug the elements into Altox GSM FBH controller thread
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23rd Dec 2018 9:57 am
OldPOP
Member Since: 15 Apr 2017
Location: Newbury
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Bartonfields wrote:
I'm considering just getting the seat bases done as it'll work out quite a bit cheaper, then install the backs at a later date.
I thought the back & base heating pads needed to be installed together as they are wired in series so if one fails the other does not work
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