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Help with Heated Seats V70-XC70

posted by V850B525 on Thu Jan 24 13:51 CST 2008
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Hi all,
Last Friday I bought my wife a 2000 V70 SE. We both love this car - it drives like a brand new one, appears to have been well maintained and is a vastly improved car over our previous 93 850 GLT! I haven't had a chance to pick up a manual yet or really work on the few items needing attention. One of those items is the heated front seats are not heating up. It appears the switches don't light when pressed either. I did swap fuses last night to no avail. I plan on breaking out the voltmeter this weekend. Does anyone have any experience troubleshooting the V70 "bun warmers" ?
Thanks in advance!
John

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Help with Heated Seats V70-XC70

posted by someone claiming to be Tapsa on Thu Jan 24 19:14 CST 2008 [RELATED]

Hi,
in older 850s of 94 the seat heating construction was not built to last. The metallic spring construction parts rub off the heating wire insulation in normal use and cause a shortcut or heating resistor wire break and cold you are, lucky if you don't get the seat cover burnt by shortcut.
Have two 850s with four cold front seats now while the oldie saab900/88 is still heating fine. Would hope volvo be able to learn something here.
br Tapsa

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