Hello Everybody!

I have a questionfor those of You who have REAR heated seats and Varioflex System: from where do the harness on the side seats and connector linked, thanks to the harness, to the switch?

 

Explaining better: I’m going to retrofit rear heated seats (after the front ones) and I noticed that, having the Varioflex, these can be folded and, if needed, removed but I have the doubt about where the harness come out from seats (on front ones near the rear part of the sitting and if the harness which I plug the harness remains a bit slack or if there’s a more suitable/comfortable position in case of removal/fold to avoid to pull it if not rip it! Pictures are more than welcome!

There is a plug and socket arrangement with self closing flaps when the seats are folded up. I will do some photos tomorrow

Thanks!

20 hours ago, Benja77 said:

Thanks!

Not yet.... today didn't quite go as planned! Sorry. They are not the thing to try and photograph in the dark :-( I will have a go tomorrow morning where things are not as busy.

Easy, take Your time

Here we go. Centre seat first.

This is on the floor. The lower one has the contacts underneath, the upper thing is the cover that you use when the seat is removed.

This is what happens when the seat is in place, it pushes the covers out of the way.

This is with the flap in the seat removed position. (The first time I put the seat back, I forgot to move this! But no harm done.

This is the connector on the bottom of the seat. I don't have heated rear seats (only the front ones), So only two contacts. On the floor side there are 5 contacts. So I assume the middle three missing ones go between the two you can see. This leads me to wonder if the wiring for front and rear heated seats is there if you have the front seats heated. They just don't connect up the rear heated seats.

The outer two seats have two sets of connectors. This is because you can take the centre seat out and slide both the outer seats towards the middle.

This is the outer seat connector. You can clearly see the missing three contacts for the heated seats on mine.

I hope this lot helps,

Whilst I thought about it.... If you ever want to fold the middle seat to form an arm rest or drinks holder, you end up with a gap straight through to the boot space. So I picked up a padded rear bumper cover off Temu/AliExpress. It is meant to flip out from the boot to cover the real lip and bumper when loading. I put some material from an old boot liner in the middle on the cabin side and Velcro left and right. Now, when you drop the centre seat, there is no noise or draft into the cabin.

Also, it protects the bottom of the seats where the handles are.

2 hours ago, chills said:

This is with the flap in the seat removed position. (The first time I put the seat back, I forgot to move this! But no harm done.

Interesting photo. My car (2021) has unheated varioflex seats but there is no cover on the contact area like in the photo.

6 minutes ago, Routemaster1461 said:

Interesting photo. My car (2021) has unheated varioflex seats but there is no cover on the contact area like in the photo.

My 2023 Mfr 2024 registered SE L rear seats are unheated. However, it is only the centre set of contacts that have the cover flap like that. All three seats have the lightweight covers that the seat plug moves aside.
I assume that Škoda assumed the centre seat would be out more often and ski's, poles etc would often be inserted from the boot?

Edited 6 November, 20256 Nov by chills

Thank You @chills ! As long as Retire the car from mechanic, I’ll see what’s under the seats; same for the harness (it’s the kit for Golf 7/7.5 that fits at least for the front ones)

1 hour ago, Benja77 said:

Thank You @chills ! As long as Retire the car from mechanic, I’ll see what’s under the seats; same for the harness (it’s the kit for Golf 7/7.5 that fits at least for the front ones)

Let me know how you get on.

Now it is only me and the wife, the Children and Grandchildren can freeze on unheated seats when I have to act as an unpaid tazi :-)

I think the heating is Not in the Central Connector

3 hours ago, Cairus said:

I think the heating is Not in the Central Connector

Looking at the wiring diagram and the manual it suggests only the two outer seats are heated.

Edited 6 November, 20256 Nov by chills

I do have SAME connector under rear seats, see attached pic, but I didn’t understand if I need to connect the harness in the free spaces of the connector itself or if they have to pass somewhere else and how they connect with control unit in front of central seat (pictured too) and where the heating module connects too

The middle seat is not heated. Furthermore, the central connection is not for the seat heating.

I know it’s not; I just wanted to know where passing the harness