Heated seat kits for 300tdi era defender seats...

I can't tell from looking at britpart (etc) photos -

Those seats kits where you get the back and seat base pads - are they all hard wired together?

I like to get the seat base off for access, and I'm not even that bothered about heat there. I'm wondering about not fitting that pad, but does that stuff up the whole thing?

(I don't know how the control works and if not fitting half the element will make the remaining one burn up or something?)

On a original LR set the base is still removably you just unplug it but the cable is long enough to put it on top of the central cubby box I would look up the original LR installation to give you more of a idea each seat is switched independently and I believe themostic controlled as mine turn on and off at a given temperature

Thank you

On top of the cubby is fine. I just dont want to be propping it up with one hand, whilst trying to hook out the battery (etc) with the other.

That said, i do find the heated seats make me feel like ive wet myself. Ive not wet myself since i was probably 6 years old, but the sensation is what i imagine it to feel like!

You can disconnect the seat and the back separately.
For each seat is one switch with high and low (and of) you have to build in.

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This set is for one seat

julianf said:

I can't tell from looking at britpart (etc) photos -

Those seats kits where you get the back and seat base pads - are they all hard wired together?

I like to get the seat base off for access, and I'm not even that bothered about heat there. I'm wondering about not fitting that pad, but does that stuff up the whole thing?

(I don't know how the control works and if not fitting half the element will make the remaining one burn up or something?)

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I had aftermarket ones for a while in mine as said above they do have separate plugs so you can fully disconnect the seat base.

I found that once I had sorted my heater out and had that working I no longer used the heated seats. They were never very good in my opinion (but that might have bene the kit I had fitted). Theoretically the kit had two heating elements and warm and a hot, but neither really did anything so I just wired them both together so both came on at the same time. A small improvement but still not properly warm. Not sure if the issues were the kit or the fact that I have seat covers and work trousers adding a couple of thick layers of fabric between me and the seat. I never bothered refitting them during the rebuild.

I had them in my ninety and now in my S2 (with defender seats and 300tdi) with these seat covers

The seat and your back are getting warm before the car heater is producing any kind of warmth.
I only use the low setting.

dag019 said:

I had aftermarket ones for a while in mine as said above they do have separate plugs so you can fully disconnect the seat base.

I found that once I had sorted my heater out and had that working I no longer used the heated seats. They were never very good in my opinion (but that might have bene the kit I had fitted). Theoretically the kit had two heating elements and warm and a hot, but neither really did anything so I just wired them both together so both came on at the same time. A small improvement but still not properly warm. Not sure if the issues were the kit or the fact that I have seat covers and work trousers adding a couple of thick layers of fabric between me and the seat. I never bothered refitting them during the rebuild.

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We have a freelander 2 and a 300 110 csw.

My partner uses the freelander, which is expensive to move about, expensive to fix, never works properly, and is generally hateful.

It is, however, comfortable.

Im attempting to jazz up the defender some, so as she will use that, and, ultimatly, the freelander can leave our lives, and, at that point, ill pass over the (now shiny) 110 to her, and get some ropey defender for myself.

She has heated seats in the freelander....


as a side note, re: heater -

im part way though a heater install thats triggered off the spare button on the central locking. the process so far has been -

crawl about under people carriers in scrap yards
buy broken units off fb market place
eventually end up with a couple of working units

think "it would be a good idea to use a central locking channel and a timed relay for this"
realise the central locking units need different door sub frames (*see note below)
when the subframes are bought, realise that the mount points need chopping off and moving on my old doors
then realise my winders are no longer any good with the new subframes
then realise my window fixing things are no longer any good with the new winders

and thats about as far as ive got - ive just finished blasting one of the frames, and ill probably drop it off for hot dip galvanising next week



so, on to "see note below" -

a friend wanted central locking. or rather wanted his central locking finished.
i kept telling him that the door sub frames needed changing. he kept telling me that it was possible to install on the old frames.
i assured him it wasnt, and you had to mount the actuator below, in some bodge it way, with bulders strapping etc.
he told me they mounted to the sub frames (the task that i couldnt do, and what caused me to swap all the sub frames over on mine)

...i told him id have to have a look at his, still not believing he had managed it.

"i didnt install them" he said, "you did, just before lockdown"


i have zero memory of the specifics of this, but i dont doubt him - and sure enough, they are on the old subframes and work fine.... i could have saved myself so much messing about on mine if id just done it the same way as (apparently) id done it previously....





(and, without all the messing about, i may have gotten the heater working by now!)

julianf said:

My partner uses the freelander, which is expensive to move about, expensive to fix, never works properly, and is generally hateful.

It is, however, comfortable.

Im attempting to jazz up the defender some, so as she will use that, and, ultimatly, the freelander can leave our lives, and, at that point, ill pass over the (now shiny) 110 to her, and get some ropey defender for myself.

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Funny She is the reason I fitted the heated seats to mine as well as she hated being a passenger becasue it was cold, draught and wet. So I thought I would remove the cold element, but she still complained because she doesn't like heated seats!