Have finally managed to get time to fit the Audi A1 seats in the Furby.

 

Rears went in ok, but will need to do something about the upholstery gap at the rear seat release and get proper A1 seat belt fittings to reach better, but the Polo lap belt I had in the garage works just dandy, and ATM it rarely gets used, never mind having 3 people in the back.

 

My problem is wiring up the front seats for the seat heating.  My Furby has heated seats, and the A1 Seats I bought are also heated so I thought I was onto a winner, but the damned things are wired completely differently.  I bought them off another chap who had modified them to fit his Fabia, but the wiring has been butchered within an inch of its life.  I have managed today through alot of detective works and writing of plans to work out what all the wires or for, or so I thought.  I have isolated the seatbelt pretensioner, occupancy and Airbag wires, and I am basically left with two wires, a red/white wire and a brown wire as opposed to every drawing I have seen for these seats which states that these wires stop at the plug, and it should have 5 wires for the seat heating, so I suspect the heated seat wiring has been replaced with a basic set up.  On the Fabia I have four wires.

 

I have spent the day figuring what does what and the bottom line is I am unsure whether to trust these seats as they stand.  In my mind I should have at least 3 wires for the heated seats.  Positive feed, and Negative Earth, which can then be split between Base and Upright, and a trigger wire for a temperature sensor, which would shut off the power.  Also these Audi seats don't have a controller fitted to the bottom of the seat like the Skoda ones, but I am thinking maybe the Audi has it built into a module behind the dash or even part of the actual switch.

 

As these have been butchered I have no idea what the wiring originally looked like.  Has anyone wired up these and can confirm how the set up is on the underside? 

 

Would the seat be ok just wired to the positive and negative from the Fabia loom without the control module fitted to the bottom of the seat?

 

Should I Fit and wire a control module to each seat like the original seat, even though I have no sensor wire?

 

Should I strip the seat and move all my wiring and pads over from the Skoda seat to the Audi seat?

 

All help assistance and questions are appreciated.

 

Ta Muchly.

 

 

Lennie

 

 

 

and the A! diagrams

Cheers Nige

 

Looks like the Audi A1 seats are 'dumb' seats in that it's a straightforward on and off with an overheat cut off built into the heating element possibly.

 

I'll order a couple of t6 plugs and wire it properly then see how I go.  To get it working perfectly I would probably have to swap the heat pads out.

 

Next on the hitlist is finding out why the boot carpet is wet all the time 😁. The joys of old cars.

 

Lennie

Edited 19 April, 20206 yr by Jaspire
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Hey

 

My boot carpet was also wet I found it to be the connection into the rear wiper from the wash fluid

Maybe this is your issue also