What are the steps to take to troubleshoot my drivers seat dosent heat on low or high. The passengers seat works.

 

THere is a DIY somewhere, that will walk you through taking it apart and putting it back together. It's typically a bad connection in the seat.

 

Im not very good with navigating this site. If anyone finds the DIY can they attach the link. Thanks.

 

I have the same problem, but the search function isn't working for me. Is it my computer or is everyone having the same search problem?

 

search is down due to site upgrades....

 

thread was called: Fixed Seat Heater for $3 bucks- probably in gen2 prob and fixes section

Under the leather seat cover is what looks like a mattress heating pad- with the wires running thru it- you know the old school kind- and they still sell today.

A small version of that is in the lumbar and posterier sections of the driver seat.
Passenger only gets butt no low back due to airbag constraints

Often a single wire suffers a break, right about where a mans wallet might exert extra pressure on it, no doubt thats why they put a few wallet sized storage spots in the TL

You cut the burned- literally-burned- wire segment of say 6 inches length and remove.
Using inline wire connectors and a replacement piece of the PROPER- same sized wire, not speaker wire, not whatever you found in the driveway from last year.... the same size-grade of wire, and splice in the new segment
Use heat shring tubing or electrical tape to protect the repair- test- recover seat- install seat in car- did I mention the seat comes out... so the covers clips are removed with ease- disconnect battery first!!! airbags!!!

 

https://acurazine.com/forums/2g-tl-1999-2003-98/diy-heated-seat-successed-cost-only-%243-607220/
go to google and type in "acurazine tl fixed heated seats"

 

I wouldn't use any connectors, i. e. butt splices, wire nuts, etc. but solder and shrink wrap. More reliable, you don't want to have to open it up again because a connector fails.

 

I recently fixed my heated seat with the instructions off this site. Great instruction and illustrations. With two of us, we took out the driver seat, replaced the connecting wires on both sides of the seat pad and reinstalled in about two hours.
Like others have said, hog ring pliers are worth their weight in gold.
Thanks all for the great advise.

 

Are you talking about me?

It was a good practice to do it twice, though. I didn't use enough solder first time around and it failed.

 

No, just in general. Been my experience that connectors are more prone to failure than a good solder joint. Flux helps in making a good solder joint.