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Old 11-05-2003, 11:10 PM   #1
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Angry Heated drivers seat stopped working 2001 Jetta

2 years 4 months--and allot of trouble -now my seat will not work --the passenger seat still works--are their 2 fuses for the seats or one?- I can only find one for the seats
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Old 11-09-2003, 08:25 AM   #2
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Re: Heated drivers seat stopped working 2001 Jetta

Most of the time this is caused by a broken circuit in the seat bottom heated seat circuit. you havve to unplug the heated seat from under the seat and run a resistance test. If there is an open circuit, you need to replace the heat element, if it is not open, usually the switch is bad.

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2 years 4 months--and allot of trouble -now my seat will not work --the passenger seat still works--are their 2 fuses for the seats or one?- I can only find one for the seats
thank you for the help---I had thought about doing the switch testing--but did not think about how to do it.
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Old 11-17-2005, 01:47 PM   #4
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Most of the time this is caused by a broken circuit in the seat bottom heated seat circuit. you havve to unplug the heated seat from under the seat and run a resistance test. If there is an open circuit, you need to replace the heat element, if it is not open, usually the switch is bad.
how do you run a resistance test...? I'm having the same problem
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Old 11-17-2005, 09:00 PM   #5
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take out the switch for the passenger seat and and plug it into the driver side harness.. if the seat doesnt get hot you need to replace the heater pad.
there is a recall out for your car for driver side seat heater. if the pad is burned you get it replaced for free.. along with the recall
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Re: Heated drivers seat stopped working 2001 Jetta

Where did you find out about the recall on the seats? I can not find anything anywhere and my driver seat is toast (no pun intended).

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take out the switch for the passenger seat and and plug it into the driver side harness.. if the seat doesnt get hot you need to replace the heater pad.
there is a recall out for your car for driver side seat heater. if the pad is burned you get it replaced for free.. along with the recall
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Old 12-14-2005, 10:09 PM   #7
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call the vw dealer near you.. if your pad is toast they will replace the pad for free when doing recall (if its burned a hold through) thats what the recalls for
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