Retro Fit Heated seats

[gridders]

If anyone wishes to retro fit the heated seat option to the B5 FACELIFT with double din (Symphony or Nav PLus) Please PM me as I have info and one switchpanel/Aircon unit surplus to requirements.

Gridders:D

[SimonS4MTM]

I take it that this requires new seats?

[SimonS4MTM]

????

[Nige_RS4]

I take it that this requires new seats?

Unless you've retro-fitted the later Recaros as these came as std with heating elements AFAIK .

I thought the main problem was the lack of wiring harness between the seats and the dash - this was doscussed a while back and the concensus was that S4 didn't come pre-wired.

[boxerdogted]

I have a 2001 B5 S4 with Recaros, do you think these will have the heating elements allready fitted ?.

[Nige_RS4]

I have a 2001 B5 S4 with Recaros, do you think these will have the heating elements allready fitted ?.

Take a look underneath, I imagine there should be a connector for the heating elements?

[SimonS4MTM]

I will take a look Nige, as I have recaro's

[MarkB]

I'd also be interested to know if the come with the elements fitted. I'll have a look this evening and see if I can see anything...

[boxerdogted]

Iv'e checked my Recaros and they are not fitted.

[MarkB]

Iv'e checked my Recaros and they are not fitted.

[reserves]

After seeing Si's Recaros in the Classifieds it got me thinking if my recaro's might have the heathing elements already, come accross this in the search.

What exactly should I be looking for under my Recaro's? As far as I recall I have a quite a few different coloured plugs under the seats, they all have stuff plugged into them, am I simply looking for an empty plug socket?

A long shot i guess....

[Dippy]

Recaro UK told me that the Audi SAB seats come with the elements as standard.

[reserves]

Interesting, what does SAB stand for? You mean the Audi ones and not aftermarket ones?

[shineydave]

has it happens..............................

got a call from a mate this morning who has a 51 plate Golf GT TDI thingy, said his drivers side seat had stopped heating and would i care to take a look at it for him. when we got the seat out (5 minute job) and stripped the covers off, (errrrrrrrrrrrr.............considerably longer job) we found a broken element that we repaired. anyway................

on the Golf seats there's a large green plug under the seat that feeds the heaters, i don't have that plug under my Recaros but the heater elements are a doddle to fit anyway, they just stick to the foam of the cushions so retrofitting them should be a piece of cake.

it's also not that big a job to get the cover loose from the rear of the seat i suppose so checking whether the heaters are present or not wouldn't be that difficult anyway.

[reserves]

Doesn't sound too easy! I'll check my seats later to see if I have the plug. Does this mean that the elements might be installed but the seat wiring loom maybe not?