Another Purchase... Part Deux

Phil W · 11 Jul 2007 at 19:34

Hi all,

Following my previous thread here on the leather seats that i bought four the Astra, i have now purchased this...

I've done quite a bit of reading up on it, and found that all Astras have the loom in place for heated seats.

I had a quick peek under the carpet for the loom, but i was lokoing in the wrong place. I need to remove the centre console, and the loom is under there tied down.

According to various people that have installed it, its simply a case of plug and play, may need to pop a fuse in the fusebox but thats about it.

Only shame is i'll have a TC button when i don't have TC! The coin tray i have purchased also won't have the electric wing mirror button fitted, just the heated seat switches and the TC button

Updates and pics when i've removed the centre console

Phil

NickXX · 11 Jul 2007 at 19:40

Ironically, they might come in useful for this summer

Are you sure the seats have the heating elements too, or would you have to fit those?

Phil W · 11 Jul 2007 at 19:42

The seats already have the elements, i cable-tied the plugs to the underneath of the seats before i put them in the car

Its nothing that i will be using everyday, but will probably come in handy in winter (or summer as you say

) and its a nice feature to have, especially in a car where electric windows are a luxury.

tigerstyle · 12 Jul 2007 at 10:04

Phil W said:
and its a nice feature to have, .

.... no end of fun making your passenger feel like they've wet themselves for hours on end, all at the flick (crafty flick

) of a switch!

Phil W · 12 Jul 2007 at 15:44

I always do that to people when cars i go in have heated seats, really funny when they click in 5mins and a sweaty arse later.

Going to remove the centre console now, wish me luck

Pigeon · 12 Jul 2007 at 19:47

Can't heated seats make you impotent or is this just a myth?

Luke15 · 12 Jul 2007 at 19:52

Pigeon said:
Can't heated seats make you impotent or is this just a myth?

Tis true. Another pointless purchase by Phil W :rolleyes:

moss · 12 Jul 2007 at 19:54

Luke15 said:
Another pointless purchase by Phil W

How is the switches to make his leather seat heated elemenets work a pointless purchase? :confused:

TaKeN · 12 Jul 2007 at 20:10

You like tinkering with your cars Phil

Goodluck with " Plumbing " It all in

Phil W · 12 Jul 2007 at 23:45

Well, tonight i've not been very successful.

Got the centre console out, and all there is under it is the ECU for the airbag. I had a good look/feel under the carpet, and there is no loom there, guessing the car's too early for it (Phase 1 rather than 2).

So next step is finding a guide on how to wire them up myself

PardonTheWait · 13 Jul 2007 at 00:18

Phil W said:
Well, tonight i've not been very successful.

Got the centre console out, and all there is under it is the ECU for the airbag. I had a good look/feel under the carpet, and there is no loom there, guessing the car's too early for it (Phase 1 rather than 2).

So next step is finding a guide on how to wire them up myself

I just got a great mental image of you turning to your passenger, saying 'check out my heated seats I got', leaning forward to flick a switch, and an airbag going off in your face.

It made me larf

Phil W · 13 Jul 2007 at 00:20

Spoke to a guy tonight who's breaking his Astra due to a rear end bump, he had the seats wired up (loom already in the car) so is arranging for me to have the loom, all i'll have to do is plug in the positive and earth and of course the fuse!

alexthecheese · 13 Jul 2007 at 11:25

Phil W said:
I always do that to people when cars i go in have heated seats, really funny when they click in 5mins and a sweaty arse later.

Going to remove the centre console now, wish me luck

Yeah, but their sweaty arse is sweating into your seats. Not good.

Trojan · 13 Jul 2007 at 13:59

Mohinder said:
I just got a great mental image of you turning to your passenger, saying 'check out my heated seats I got', leaning forward to flick a switch, and an airbag going off in your face.

Haha that made me LOL

Phil W · 13 Jul 2007 at 15:43

alexthecheese said:
Yeah, but their sweaty arse is sweating into your seats. Not good.

I said other cars, not my own