I drive a 2001 Volvo cross country station wagon it has had a plethera of odd electrical broblems since we purchased it. Anyway I need to take the car on a long road trip. My current problem is that the drivers side seat heater turns on by itself. I need to know if there is a simple way to disable that function. When I say simple I mean that I have very limited knowledge of cars and I'd like to be able to do this without possible breakign anything and that it can be enabled just as easy. Maybe there's a plug I understand that this is a complicated question so if anyone responding has good webistes on how to do these things it would be great.
2006-08-01 17:13:28 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
I have a few suggestions:
Suggestion #1: Grab your owners manual out of the glovebox, look in the back for the index, and find the section on fuses. It should give you detailed instructions on where to find your fuse panel, and what fuses are for what. One of those fuses should be for your heated seats. It might also control your power seat options or defrost, so make sure that if you temporarily remove the fuse it won't affect anything you'll need. Pop the fuse out with the fuse puller on the fuse panel cover, and keep it somewhere you won't loose it until you come back from your trip. Consult car repair shop afterwards.
Suggestion #2 (More tricky): Move your power seats to the "all the way up" position so you can look underneath the seat. (It's easier if you do this from the driver side rear door.) There should be only a small number of electrical wires running underneath the seat. Some should look like they are going to the seat motors, some should look like they go straight up to the seat back (side airbags) and 2 wires should look like they're going to the seat bottom (heated seats). There should be a quick connect coupler you can take apart until someone can look at it professionally.
Suggestion #3 (tougher still): See if you can pop the heated seat switch out of the dash panel. I have NO idea how to do that.
2006-08-01 17:32:58 · answer #1 · answered by j_teague68 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im not sure how the fuses work on that car, but there may be a fuse for the seat heater. Look at the fuse box cover (either in the engine compartment twords the cab, or right around the knee of the driver in most cars) to see if there is a fuse for the seat warmers. It may be under the accessory fuse, so try pulling that and see if it turns off a lot anything else... Just try that...
2006-08-01 17:25:36 · answer #2 · answered by skippypeanutbutter! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
either pull the fuse that heat the seats If other things quit working plug the fuse back in... or disconnect the seat heater wire under the seat note there are three or four things plugged in under there. One the heater element it self. Two, the yellow plug "side air bag" don't unplug that one. Three, electric seat you can unplug that one and if the seat doesn't move plug it back in. And if Four, the seat belt buckle switch plug disconnect it and the seat belt light won't turn off. Plug it back in.
2006-08-01 17:25:11 · answer #3 · answered by John Paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just unplug the wire from under the seat for the heater oh by the way the same wire may control the power seat
2006-08-01 17:18:51 · answer #4 · answered by me too 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋