My heated driver's seat does not work, and the dealer are currently unable to find out what the problem is. They claimed to have fixed it by replacing a relay but it still does not work, and they now want the car for a week :eek:to try to diagnose the fault!

Has anybody else had this problem? If so what was the cause and how was it fixed? Car is a 2006 L&K 2.0 FSI estate, and the passenger heated seat works fine.

Do you happen to put your knee in the seat when picking something up from between the seats? Or perhaps the lads at the car wash?

The most probable cause is the wire in the heating elements has ruptured. Warranty fix is to replace pad. Out of warranty fix is to just undress the seat, examine pad and find where the wire is broken and put it back together.

This is simply diagnosed by measuring the resistance of the heating element. Close to infinity means the wire is broken. Something the service people should have obviously known.

Thanks, I will mention this when I take it back to the stealers. I think there are 2 heating elements, one in the seat squab and one in the seat back. Would a ruptured wire in one cause both to fail?

I certainly haven't knelt on the seat or anything like that, and as you corrrectly surmise the only other person to drive the car have been the car wash boys and they have never cleaned the inside.

To be honest I am not sure if the heated seat has ever worked, I never tried it until recently when I found out that it didn't.

I never wanted heated seats anyway, but if you want leather seats (as my wife did) you have to have them!

No experience of the Octy 2 heated seats, but I had a failed seat on the Fabia. There are two heat mats, one of the seat base and one on the seat back, and I think they are powered through a single source so if one fails both stop working (could be wrong though). It took them a couple of days to fix, but I suspect that was just waiting for parts to arrive and they replaced both the mats IIRC. I can't see there being a week's worth of investigation needed personally!

Chris

If they are connected in series (90%+ chances of being so) if either fails, the other will stop working as well. IIRC the repair kit contains both heating elements.

If those guys learn how to use an ohmmeter properly they should be fine eventually. These things are just a bit more complicated than a kettle element.

They are changed separatly and can easy be checked by removing the chair and test the two heater elements whit a ohmmeter "sorry for my rusty english" I do sugesst you let a skoda workshop do it because ther is a airbag in the chair and its not to play whit.

Thanks for that. I wasn't going to attempt to do anything myself as it is a warranty job, but as the dealers don't seem to have a clue I was hoping to be able to point them in the right direction.

Hi there. My first post, but I had similar experience. After a few weeks, the passenger seat heating stopped working, then the driver seat heating stopped working. Occasionally it started heating (controls were on), then stopped again. After checking that the fuse at the drivers door was ok and even changed it without succes, I took my brand new O2 Tdi Estate to the dealer. According to the repair guy, the fuse socket hadn´t a full grip on the fuse. Free of charge and no problem at all after that.

IIRC both seats share one fuse, so this ain't it, this time.

I have had problems with the heated seats of an Octavia 1. What happened is that the guy who built in the radio had pushed off the connector on the back of the heating switch. I noticed this because when it was dark, the switch is normally lit, but it remained dark. Maybe this helps.

:thumbup:Sorted! Apparently it was a loose electrical connection in the supply to the seat. Don't know why it still took them 2 days to find this.

Worse still, I had to drive around for 2 days in a metallic orange Fabia with foot high letters on it advertising the dealers. Very embarrassing!

Thanks for all your help & suggestions.

If they are connected in series (90%+ chances of being so) if either fails, the other will stop working as well. IIRC the repair kit contains both heating elements.

If those guys learn how to use an ohmmeter properly they should be fine eventually. These things are just a bit more complicated than a kettle element.

 

Hello guys,

 

How much are such repair kits, and where could they be bought?

 

Also, how can the drivers seat be removed and un-dressed/re-dressed please?

 

Please forgive my clumsy questions, I just wondered because I test drove an Octavia vRS today with a faulty drivers side seat (did not heat).

The heated control roller-switch is lit and increments 1-2-3...etc...3-2-1 when you roll it through.

The passenger side seat I am lead to believe works and heats-up.

 

Weirdly, though, and this may be a mistake on my part, but whilst the engine was running and the blower was on full to demist the windscreen, I rolled the drivers heater control to-and-fro, and I could have sworn that for each of the increments the blower changed tone ever-so slightly.  Again, I may be quite wrong about this, but it may have done this.

 

Basically, this is a feature that I was really looking forward to having in this car and I really want to know how hard/costly it would be for this to be investigated and fixed.

 

Thank you all very much.

Anyone help? ^^^^^^^

Press the center of the button for heated seat! There are 3 settings: hot, warm, too little...... Indicated with three, two or one indicating lights on upper edge. Rolling the outer ring will change the temperature setting, and if you have the autoclima, the fan speed will increase at higher setting!

Edited 11 December, 201411 yr by fatzy

They aren't instant and will take a few minutes to warm up. Next time, set it to max and just wait!