Randy, you look like the most recent person to do this repair. Can you share your steps and exactly what and where you ordered your parts from. How hard was it? any chane you could do a write up? Thanks

Jeff

Nevermind. I was going to try this myself, but found a local shop to do an aftermarket repair for $250, will post results. After reading all the posts related to the heated seat failures and repair failures, I'm going to go with an aftermarket CF heated seat kit. Obviously there is a design flaw in the current heated seats. Surprised there isn't a recall at this point. The other xf we went to look at before we got FP's also had the driver seat not working. Would love to see a poll of how many here had failures.

 

Jeff;

$250 sounds good, the heat my seats pad worked great and have extra pad from the kit if I need one in the future.

Randy

 

Randy any chance of giving me the make, model., part no and supplier of your aftermarket heated seat kit. I'm in adelaide south australia and my local dealer wants aroung $600 to supply and fit. It will also be 6 weeks. This will be my 3rd replacement . I need a website/email or some way of ordering.
Thanks, Deane

 

quote from a local dealer was $1200 to repair driver seat heat. Can you give me the info on where you purchases the seat pads?

 

Did you read the first post in this thread?

 

[Welcome to Heatmyseats.com

 

Randy, my XF is in Whitby. Seat warmers on bottom just went.
Any advice on installer?

 

Hi;

I did it myself but maybe try some one that does upholstry. You can get the pads from heatmyseats.com.

Randy

 

thanks for the info.
Did you power the new pads with wire feed from existing dash switches or did you install new switch and tap into 12V feed elsewhere?

 

Thanks Randy
Which pads did you buy from Heatmyseats?
Are they in Canada or did you have import fees?
robertweckman@rogers.com

 

Randyg did you order the H3 seat heater recommended by heat my seats? i was wondering about the carbon one if those might be a little harder than the H3... also about how many hours labor do you suppose it took to do one seat? i will be having my car fix it man do this task and am wondering about how much this will cost me.
let me know thanks bunches for blazing the trail!

 

Spensley... I need to get my seats heating again as winter is heading our way. I assume your seats are still working well and was wondering if you could supply the vendor/item #? you had to cut off the after market ****/wire assembly and wire directly to the current xfire **** wiring and lay the heating pads between the leather and cushion?
Thanks in advance for your help with this...

 

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