Heated Seat Wiring Diagram For 2011 Ford Fiesta
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Hello,
About halfway through winter the heated seat function for the driver's side started to no longer work. When I click the button it lights up normally but the seat itself doesn't work. Meanwhile the passenger side works fine. My first guess was that maybe a fuse went out?
Does anyone know the likelihood that it could be a fuse? Or could it be the seat itself?
Thanks,
Model: 2003 Ford Focus ZTS 2L engine, sedan
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Sounds like it's the seat, it's usually the lower element that goes from wear and tear (sitting on it). If the fuse blew the button wouldn't light up. Also these buttons tend to loose their locking mechanism and you have to hold it to work, if that's not the case then it's probably the element.
If you can find the wiring diagram you can do a continuity test on the heater elements at the seat's pigtail.
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Hey. I had the same thing happen. What you have to do is disconnect the electrical connection of the seat to the car. Then remove the four seat bolts with a torx 50 bit. Then you have to remove the hog rings underneath the seat holding the seat fabric on (they're reusable). There's a clip at the rear bottom of the backrest that you have to undo as well. It's a tricky one. Then simply remove the old pad and replace it with a new one.
I could only find it from the dealer, and it cost a reasonable $70.
Good luck!
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Hey. I had the same thing happen. What you have to do is disconnect the electrical connection of the seat to the car. Then remove the four seat bolts with a torx 50 bit. Then you have to remove the hog rings underneath the seat holding the seat fabric on (they're reusable). There's a clip at the rear bottom of the backrest that you have to undo as well. It's a tricky one. Then simply remove the old pad and replace it with a new one.
I could only find it from the dealer, and it cost a reasonable $70.
Good luck!
this is a good basic description. there are more details how to-s out there.
some of the older seat elements are out of production. the last time my seat failed, i replaced with with a carbon fibre element off amazon. $10.
Amazon.com: Carbon Fiber Mesh Replacement 12v Seat Heater Pad Element: Automotive
it has its own thermostat, so all i did was spice the old heating element conector to the new element wiring. works good. i like the carbon fibre idea, because it would take multiple failures before it stopped working.
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If one can simply figure out how to splice the heating element where broken then may be able to fix one for literally nothing. I've done that to rear window defrost units before.
Source: https://www.focusfanatics.com/threads/drivers-heated-seat-not-working.551482/
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