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Heating everything in the car has become such a well-known option that its absence causes bewilderment, bordering on anger. Therefore, the breakdown of all elements of the “warm
Fall came, as always, imperceptibly, and the heated seats in our Lancer showed no sign of life. Today it is just inconvenience, but tomorrow when winter starts it will become a serious inconvenience, so we start to eliminate the offensive disadvantage. To pinpoint the reason for an option’s failure, you need to carefully study the theory and then combine the knowledge gained with practice.
Thus, the seat heating is easily controlled, at the level of an electrical circuit that schoolchildren disassemble in a physics lesson: +/-, a key, a light bulb. Instead of the latter there is a heating element, which is laid on foam rubber directly under the seat cover. Based on this, the problem may lie in the malfunction of the “heater” itself, the wiring and, in fact, the key – there is simply nothing left to break.
The seat in our “Lancer” has not been pushed through and still retains its full factory shape – not even the fabric is worn or torn. Really, the Japanese do things with a capital letter. A careful examination suggests that specifically in our case the probability of failure of the heating element – on the seats that have been sitting, it just breaks, breaks the circuit – is minimal. By the way, there is an opinion that flooding the seat with water can break the heating. Let’s grieve the “experts”: a cup of coffee, a bottle of water and even a complex wash are not enough for this – in order for the “stove” to die from water, the car will have to drown.
The next step is the wiring. Mitsubishi Lancer has seen life, and the previous owners did not differ in a warm attitude to the car. The humidity in the cabin is quickly approaching the aquarium, although there are no holes in the bottom yet – the rubber bands have long worn out and need to be replaced.
In short, the main candidate for the role of the cause of the malfunction was precisely the wiring: oxidized, broken or simply broken wires could easily become the second “key” to open the circuit. But here too a pleasant surprise awaited us: the wires turned out to be intact and traces of oxidation were minimal. Cleaned, reassembled, didn’t work.
If there was more experience repairing used cars, they would have found the ‘recipient’ faster. The technicians from several services at the same time spoke of the button as the most likely cause of the malfunction. Scarecrows and the price: on the Lexus RX300, for example, the key block for seat heating now costs 90,000 rubles. Ours even had to be visually replaced: the buttons were dangling, something was rattling inside, and he himself looked extremely worn.
A Chinese flea market came to the rescue: 400 rubles and a month of waiting brought to the post office a brand new block, indistinguishable from the original and exactly matching the terminals, which fit exactly into the allocated niche. We connect.
A miracle happened: both front seats – 18 years ago, even their heating was a luxury for the middle class – “marked” with a quick and pleasant heat.
The whole work lasted half an hour with “smoke breaks” and cost the 400 rubles paid to the hard-working and generous Chinese. If only everything could be repaired so easily!
Fall came, as always, imperceptibly, and the heated seats in our Lancer showed no sign of life. Today it is just inconvenience, but tomorrow when winter starts it will become a serious inconvenience, so we start to eliminate the offensive disadvantage. To pinpoint the reason for an option’s failure, you need to carefully study the theory and then combine the knowledge gained with practice.
Thus, the seat heating is easily controlled, at the level of an electrical circuit that schoolchildren disassemble in a physics lesson: +/-, a key, a light bulb. Instead of the latter there is a heating element, which is laid on foam rubber directly under the seat cover. Based on this, the problem may lie in the malfunction of the “heater” itself, the wiring and, in fact, the key – there is simply nothing left to break.
The seat in our “Lancer” has not been pushed through and still retains its full factory shape – not even the fabric is worn or torn. Really, the Japanese do things with a capital letter. A careful examination suggests that specifically in our case the probability of failure of the heating element – on the seats that have been sitting, it just breaks, breaks the circuit – is minimal. By the way, there is an opinion that flooding the seat with water can break the heating. Let’s grieve the “experts”: a cup of coffee, a bottle of water and even a complex wash are not enough for this – in order for the “stove” to die from water, the car will have to drown.
The next step is the wiring. Mitsubishi Lancer has seen life, and the previous owners did not differ in a warm attitude to the car. The humidity in the cabin is quickly approaching the aquarium, although there are no holes in the bottom yet – the rubber bands have long worn out and need to be replaced.
In short, the main candidate for the role of the cause of the malfunction was precisely the wiring: oxidized, broken or simply broken wires could easily become the second “key” to open the circuit. But here too a pleasant surprise awaited us: the wires turned out to be intact and traces of oxidation were minimal. Cleaned, reassembled, didn’t work.
If there was more experience repairing used cars, they would have found the ‘recipient’ faster. The technicians from several services at the same time spoke of the button as the most likely cause of the malfunction. Scarecrows and the price: on the Lexus RX300, for example, the key block for seat heating now costs 90,000 rubles. Ours even had to be visually replaced: the buttons were dangling, something was rattling inside, and he himself looked extremely worn.
A Chinese flea market came to the rescue: 400 rubles and a month of waiting brought to the post office a brand new block, indistinguishable from the original and exactly matching the terminals, which fit exactly into the allocated niche. We connect.
A miracle happened: both front seats – 18 years ago, even their heating was a luxury for the middle class – “marked” with a quick and pleasant heat.
The whole work lasted half an hour with “smoke breaks” and cost the 400 rubles paid to the hard-working and generous Chinese. If only everything could be repaired so easily!
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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