Troubleshooting heated seats

[tiger]

The seat heaters on my 93 LWB don't work. The switches on the dash light up, so power is at least getting there, but, for starters...where are the fuses or circuit breakers for the seat heaters?

[hollerlwb]

My 1993 LWB has the same exact problem.
The fuse is located in the rear of the front passenger seat. It is a yellow fuse in a row of fuses. My fuse was fine, and the heated seat lights go on, but the seat still does not heat up.

I have not fixed mine yet as my heater is not blowing and its too cold to fumble around with heater or seat fuses right now

Let me know if you come up with anything

[rover-r-us]

The seat heaters on my 93 LWB don't work. The switches on the dash light up, so power is at least getting there, but, for starters...where are the fuses or circuit breakers for the seat heaters?

i have the same with my 95RRC.got power to the seat but no heat.all fuse ck.ok and i know the power going to it.might be the webing in the seat? who know...

[Les Parker]

Have you checked for continuity on the heater elements?
Also check the relays (2 yellow ones) situated at the right hand side rear of the drivers (lh) seat.
To repalce the elents is not too bad a job, as far a Classic repairs go.


Regards

[tiger]

Terriffic responses. Now I know where the fuses and relays are.
LIke yours, my heater is not blowing, so I'd probably better deal with that first...but at least I can check the fuses and relays, now that I know where they are.
There is a good page on rovers.net on how to deal with the seat elements themselves, if they are bad. You can either jump around the broken element(there is one for the seat back and one for the seat bottom, make up a jumper to go around whichever is broken) or remove the seats and actually repair the element(more hassle than I would be interested in getting into...)

[tiger]

Okay...under the passenger seat, from behind, I spotted two fuses. One was blown. Made no difference.
Under the passenger seat, from the side(removed the plastic panel) I found two fuses, one was fine, the other is a big 70a fuse that looked fine, too.
I did not find a row of fuses anywhere under the passenger seat...am I missing them?

[o2batsea]

The fuses on the passenger seat side are all related to the air suspension.

[singingcamel]

its probably in the seat itself.
i would recommend a hot water bottle or heating pad with a lond drop cord.
kidding, costly to fix and will not last long..

[tiger]

But I am wondering if I am getting accurate info as to where the fuses for the seats actually are? I am confused...

[Rod Turnbull]

Not quite stock... however, it might get you through to the time of year that fixing things is a little less numbing.

Check it out.

I'm sure they have something comparable at your local auto-parts shop.

Rod