Both my heated seats dont seem to get warm, the light comes on when the switch it either put on low or high, but no heat, what can it be? where will the fuse be?
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First off, what series Cruiser do you have? I will assume an 80 series since thats where you are posted, so then the seat heaters must be aftermarket. Did they stop working all at once? or a period of time? Need more details. I would guess if BOTH arent working and it happened all of a sudden you have a problem with your switch/s ...... if they died at different times you are going to have to chase it down and could be fuses, broken and/or pinched wires, breaks in the heating elements themselves. Good luck!
I think snowwolfwarior has a 1996 petrol 4.5 HJ 80 and the leather electricaly heated seats are standard as they are on my HDJ, I think he has had it for only a short while. He has no manuals,
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Yer gold finger is right, it's a 1996 FZ80, only had it for 3 weeks so not sure when they had packed up, they are standard fitment, just wondered where the fuses are.
Maybe you just eat too much and have big cheeks? 
snowwolf on my cruiser HDJ there are fuses in the cab by ones right knee in a little pul out pannel and in the engine compartment on the nearside or passengerside wing. I to do not have any mannuals but managed to secure a copy on CD from Ebay it only coveres the petrol but we both have similar chassis and I use it for this. It cost £10 and includes wiring diagrams. I rialise that it is not as good as a FSM but if you send me your e-mail address via a private meage I will try to find and send you some information. By the way I have sent you a few Pivate Messages have you read them? If not go to the top of the screen and click on in gold private Messages. Good luck !
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I bought one of them cd's off ebay, buy never been able to get it to work!
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I have checked out all the fuses, and all ok, but could not find any that said "heated seats" on the info panel, I can only assume the heated seat wireing is naff, if anyone else has a suggestion as what it could be?
snowwolfwarrior said:
First off, I wish I could get factory heated seats! Now on to your question. I dont have experience with Toyota heated seats, but I have repaired several in Saabs. The culprit every time was a wire in the heating grid under the seat cover. So I would have power all the way to the seat, and the switches worked, but the grid is busted, pain in the ass, but it can be fixed. That would be my guess, especially if your seats get a lot of use
semlin
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if you pull the seats off to get at it can you post photos. I would like to see what they look like, where it goes and how it fits and whether you could fit them in a north american 80.
Perhaps cruiserdan might have information on part numbers, diagrams and availability as they are pretty much standard fit on most models over here. They certainly warm your bum (ass) and back. In fact they get so hot I either switch mine off or down as there is a three way switch, high, off, low. They do take a short while to heat up so idiely switching them on a few minutes early while the engine warms up.
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Thanks for the help guys, I might try and have a look to see if the leather seat covers come off, so I can see where the wired element is, but that might depend on how drunk I get tonight, going to a party.
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if its both seats, then I would look elseware then under the leather at the elements, look upstream.........someplace.
on my 100 series the heaters ONLY come on if there is a butt/body on the seat, no butt/body.....heaters don't turn on, regardless of switch being on................could this maybe be your problem?
on my 100 series the heaters ONLY come on if there is a butt/body on the seat, no butt/body.....heaters don't turn on, regardless of switch being on................could this maybe be your problem?
snowwolfwarrior said:
semlin
curmudgeon
Pimp, is it that you think he hovers above the seat while driving using special levitation powers or that englishmen have no butts?
well seeing how its new to him, "maybe" he just turned the switch on and felt the seats with his hand.....I say this because he says neither seat gets warm......just a guess.......with "newbies" sometimes its the simple things
sometimes its the simple things semlin said:Pimp, is it that you think he hovers above the seat while driving using special levitation powers or that englishmen have no butts?
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Thanks for the help landpimp.... Thought it was my big fat ass that may have budted them LOL
They still dont work even withs asses on them, it is both of them, which I thought a bit wierd for both to go, the lights do come on on the switches, wonder if anyone knows exactly where the fuses might be, I have looked the the ones under the cover under the steering wheel, and no blown fuses there and all seems to look ok in the box under the bonnet on the inner wing.
They still dont work even withs asses on them, it is both of them, which I thought a bit wierd for both to go, the lights do come on on the switches, wonder if anyone knows exactly where the fuses might be, I have looked the the ones under the cover under the steering wheel, and no blown fuses there and all seems to look ok in the box under the bonnet on the inner wing.
Snowwolfwarrior (I think you win for the longest name),
Take some pics of the seats if you can, I'm very curious about this, are the seats just like the US version but just have heaters in them? Very cool. As for them not working, the only experience I've had with heated seats was in my stepbro's Subaru. In that, the heated seats didn't work, but also the outside heated mirrors didn't work, or the adjustment motors on those mirrors. It turned out to be a fuse up in the engine bay. I'm not exactly sure which one since none were blown, but that's what the dealers told him and sure enough it all works now...
So, look around, can you find anything else that doesn't work? Where is your switch mounted? Can you easily get to the back of the switch, or pull it out. If the light on the switch is working, like the seat should work, then I'd suspect something inbetween the switch and the seat. I don't think they typically run relays on those, I think the current for the seat is usually ran through the switch, so if the switch is telling it to heat, and no heat, then maybe the seat is just disconnected from the harness? Can you find the wires from the seat that go into the body? There has to be a connector there to allow for seat removal, probe for voltage there and see what you got.
Good Luck...
Mark Brodis
Take some pics of the seats if you can, I'm very curious about this, are the seats just like the US version but just have heaters in them? Very cool. As for them not working, the only experience I've had with heated seats was in my stepbro's Subaru. In that, the heated seats didn't work, but also the outside heated mirrors didn't work, or the adjustment motors on those mirrors. It turned out to be a fuse up in the engine bay. I'm not exactly sure which one since none were blown, but that's what the dealers told him and sure enough it all works now...
So, look around, can you find anything else that doesn't work? Where is your switch mounted? Can you easily get to the back of the switch, or pull it out. If the light on the switch is working, like the seat should work, then I'd suspect something inbetween the switch and the seat. I don't think they typically run relays on those, I think the current for the seat is usually ran through the switch, so if the switch is telling it to heat, and no heat, then maybe the seat is just disconnected from the harness? Can you find the wires from the seat that go into the body? There has to be a connector there to allow for seat removal, probe for voltage there and see what you got.
Good Luck...
Mark Brodis
Both the US and the UK seats appear the same judging by the photographs. It appears that the only difference is that we get the bum (butt warmer).
