volvowagoon
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- Jul 19, 2012
- Location
- Franklin, IN
I have a 1989 245 DL with inoperable heated seats. Neither of the switched illuminate when they are turned on which tells me that there is a bad ground to the system, a bad power wire wire to the driver seat switch (fuse confirmed good), or some other crazy thing going on involving a botched wiring job.
Did you bet on number 3? Of course you did. Why else would I be making a thread?
Dear god! First of all, that dangling connector is supposed to be connected to the black wire which has clearly been yanked hard enough to no longer have a terminal. Second of all, why is this such a mess? Not a single wire is where it's supposed to be. Third, what up with the tar?
Here it is sorta cleaned upish.
Terminal rebent so that it actually stays in the connector body...
I removed the console and pulled this cute little guy out of there. I think I'm immune to the virus now.
I had to redrill the little self tapped ground on the bracket because it was completely stripped and not holding any of the ring terminals anymore. I don't think it's going to help the heated seat situation, but a fix is a fix!
Here's the seat back in after I cleaned up the wires a little bit.
Anyway, this was all for investigative purposes. I ran out of daylight, and put things back together before I could finish diagnostics. Here's where I am. Ground (D) is good which kinda surprised me given that the lights in the switches don't work either. There is no resistance between the switch (J and I) and ground (D). Power is also good. I have 12.4V at the switch (J and I) when the key (B) is on. When I come home tomorrow I will check to see if I have power and ground at the grid (C).
Questions:
What does everyone else's connector F look like? the female end on both seats is something stupid small like 20g wire. Is this normal? It sure doesn't seem large enough to power a heating grid. Also, does anybody have tips for cleaning up these old switches? Mine work, but the terminals are pretty corroded. I wonder if this alone is my illumination problem. Both bulbs appear good.
Did you bet on number 3? Of course you did. Why else would I be making a thread?
Dear god! First of all, that dangling connector is supposed to be connected to the black wire which has clearly been yanked hard enough to no longer have a terminal. Second of all, why is this such a mess? Not a single wire is where it's supposed to be. Third, what up with the tar?
Here it is sorta cleaned upish.
Terminal rebent so that it actually stays in the connector body...
I removed the console and pulled this cute little guy out of there. I think I'm immune to the virus now.
I had to redrill the little self tapped ground on the bracket because it was completely stripped and not holding any of the ring terminals anymore. I don't think it's going to help the heated seat situation, but a fix is a fix!
Here's the seat back in after I cleaned up the wires a little bit.
Anyway, this was all for investigative purposes. I ran out of daylight, and put things back together before I could finish diagnostics. Here's where I am. Ground (D) is good which kinda surprised me given that the lights in the switches don't work either. There is no resistance between the switch (J and I) and ground (D). Power is also good. I have 12.4V at the switch (J and I) when the key (B) is on. When I come home tomorrow I will check to see if I have power and ground at the grid (C).
Questions:
What does everyone else's connector F look like? the female end on both seats is something stupid small like 20g wire. Is this normal? It sure doesn't seem large enough to power a heating grid. Also, does anybody have tips for cleaning up these old switches? Mine work, but the terminals are pretty corroded. I wonder if this alone is my illumination problem. Both bulbs appear good.