[urq] Seat heater element for urQ/Coupe

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L-A
I've spent many a weekend over the years, watching games, drinking beer and  
installing seat heaters in customer cars, usually just the right seat (where 
she  sits)....
 
I use a couple different sized and angled needle nose pliers for the loops,  
and am always careful to get every one, there are many of them, some  hidden.  
 
To answer your question, yes, you can use any seat heater from any  car.  The 
big issue I found is going wide seat (85>) to narrow seat  <84 in the urq's.  
The wide seat pads will need to turn down the sides  of the center seat on 
the pre 84 urq's, and that turn tends to cause a premature  failure of the 
heater element.  That said,  if the pad in the 86 GT  fits just the seat bottom 
with little or no overlap down the sides of the seat  pad, you can certainly use 
it.  You can splice the connector if it's  different, I find most audi heat 
pads have the same connector for many  years.
 
expect the procedure to take a full football game (sometimes 2), and you  
learn a lot about how audi makes their seats in the process.  I actually  find 
the cloth to be easier to work with than the leather, ymmv
 
HTH
 
Scott Justusson
 
In a message dated 3/29/2007 8:33:57 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
larichard at plguide.com writes:
Hi everyone,

My 1983 urQ is now  seat-heaterless. I have the old style switch with only
the "broil" position.  



In a moment of genius, when I dismantled the 1986 Coupe GT last  fall, I kept
both front seats. Maybe I was dreaming of a front gallery with  these
gray-cloth perchs for beer drinking ? I don't know why, Honey doesn't  think
it is a good idea. while baby Estelle adores the seats while  making
vrooooom-vroooom noises.



Now, before I attack this job  (dismantling the seats), do you think these
newer element will work in my old  car ? Next question is : will my still
nice looking zebra-cloth seats look no  so nice after the swap ?



Louis-Alain, with a cold bun these  days.
 



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