[V8] Seat heater relays

Buchholz, Steven Steven.Buchholz at kla-tencor.com
Mon Dec 20 16:20:00 EST 2004


... hard to know for sure without hearing it in person, but the seat
heater relays do make an audible noise ... so I doubt that is a problem.
If you find the heaters to work inconsistently you will probably find
that there is an intermittent in one of the heating elements ... 

Steve B
San Jose, CA (USA)
> 
> Suddenly it got cold here in Flori-duh, and I turned on the 
> *wonderful* 
> seat heater . . . and got a clicka-clicka-clicka noise from 
> the seat heater 
> relay (which on this car is under the passenger footwell). 
> Seat gets hot, 
> but not predictably.
> 
> Is this noise normal or do I need to remove the relay, open 
> it, and look 
> for cold solder joints?
> 
> I doubt the noise is normal - it would be very out of 
> character for this car.


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