TeeMyob wrote:

What did you use to get that fault code please?

MarkA wrote:

Will follow with interest as my drivers seat also doesn't heat, just assumed my fat arse was too heavy.


If you find any solutions please update the thread.

Me too. Definitely a 'Big End' problem !  Forty years of progress. 1972-2012

Getting that kind of weather now.

Even if `I could swap over bits from passenger seat id be happy

Bite the bullet, get a new pettier unit from Duckworths on here & do the job proper  2012 Orkney Grey Westminster 4.4TDV8 with Ivory interior.........nice!
Alfa Romeo Giulietta
Just one Montesa now, 349 White Wonder
Austin A40 Farina MK2
1975 Morris Marina 1.8TC

Thanks

Duckworths ?

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta
Just one Montesa now, 349 White Wonder
Austin A40 Farina MK2
1975 Morris Marina 1.8TC

We still have some repair kits in stock. Not many left. Will be placing an order soon.
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I used one of the kits provided by JNC and did the fix myself. It took me about an hour to disassemble the seat back, remove the failed unit, change the peltier cell and corrugated housing, replace the repaired unit and reassemble the seat back.
If I can do it, I am fairly certain most on here also could!
Still working a few weeks later and I am feeling the benefit every morning!

Do you provide a kit that replaces the peltier cell on the seat base and backrest? Both my front seats don’t work at all.

Thanks

I’ve never seen the base unit fail.
The seat back ducting splits and causes the cell to overheat.
The system shuts down and prevents that entire seat working.

I’ve not seen the passenger side fail but of course it’s likely.

A good way to tell without diagnostic tool is to turn on the heat and feel the fan under the seat.
If it runs for a few seconds and turns off it usually means it has gone over temp. A sign the cell has failed.
The heated/cooled system for that seat will cease to operate again until an ignition cycle.

Don't if anyone has said this before but the same unit is used in 09-15 Jaguar XF seat.

My seat back heats up, but not the base. Seems to be the opposite to everyone else? 2011MY 4.4TDV8 Autobiography Baltic Blue
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Alfa Romeo Mito QV

It could be that the filter is blocked?

RR2B wrote:

My seat back heats up, but not the base. Seems to be the opposite to everyone else?

Does the system shut down if both parts are turned on?
Or the back still works but not the base?