# Heated Leather
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971
**Category:** Shift518 Automotive
**Created:** [October 10, 2010, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971 "2010-10-10T08:57:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@iamderrik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/iamderrik)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2010, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/1 "2010-10-10T08:57:11Z")
Well just tried my heated leather last night…pass side works but mine doesnt :banghead Cant really find too much diag on it online, but im going out to mess around with it soon, any idea on where to start? Im going to check fuses and what not, Electrical wasnt always my favorite
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### Author:  [@K20power](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/K20power)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2010, 9:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/2 "2010-10-10T09:39:09Z")
I can’t remember what it is(the previous owner told me, but I forgot), but I have the same problem in my S6. My heated seat doesn’t work, but my passenger and rear heated seats work. FML
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### Author:  [@Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mk4_30R_Ban)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2010, 11:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/3 "2010-10-10T11:44:01Z")
its the element probably. nicks S4 had the same problem, same as his 200. the driver is obviously the one that will be used most often… have to take the seat apart and replace the element, or find another seat and hope it works.
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### Author:  [@iamderrik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/iamderrik)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/4 "2010-10-10T13:47:05Z")
Yeah it sucks, ill have to take mine out and apart one day and check it out, or see if i can snag one used online
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### Author:  [@iamderrik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/iamderrik)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/5 "2010-10-10T14:59:35Z")
Cant find any info on the element inside the seat…Ugh
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### Author:  [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/6 "2010-10-11T15:45:00Z")
Is the element removable at all?
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### Author:  [@6SPD\_S4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/6SPD_S4)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/7 "2010-10-11T15:48:56Z")
Mint used seats can be found for cheap kidd
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### Author:  [@Johawk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Johawk)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/8 "2010-10-11T16:00:38Z")
> [@Spoiled college kid getting tasered... vol 2](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/spoiled-college-kid-getting-tasered-vol-2/35565/96):
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> Is the element removable at all?
Of course… its a pain in the dick tho.
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### Author:  [@iamderrik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/iamderrik)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/9 "2010-10-11T16:06:18Z")
> [@UB Founder's Plaza,](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ub-founders-plaza/35751/7):
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> Mint used seats can be found for cheap kidd
Hahah find me one boss…I have not tried to take it out yet, most likely tomorrow if im feeling the ambition on my day off
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### Author:  [@Wayne64SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wayne64SS)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/10 "2010-10-11T16:25:29Z")
the easiest solution is to just get used to things not working. 🙂
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### Author:  [@iamderrik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/iamderrik)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/11 "2010-10-11T16:34:10Z")
Haha right, its just the little things that make me angry…like how ive never had a car with a working sunroof, until now…but id like a warm ass/back in the winter 😕
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### Author:  [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/12 "2010-10-11T17:04:40Z")
> [@Johawk"](#):
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> Of course… its a pain in the dick tho.
is it at all worth swapping(if possible) the passenger side into the drivers seat till he finds a working one?
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### Author:  [@6SPD\_S4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/6SPD_S4)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/13 "2010-10-11T17:31:28Z")
> [@New tints (pics)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-tints-pics/35738/23):
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> Hahah find me one boss…I have not tried to take it out yet, most likely tomorrow if im feeling the ambition on my day off
Okay i will ask a buddy for ya when i go pick up my MINT santorin fender this week. Driverside, white right? or is it black
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### Author:  [@Neo187H](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Neo187H)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/heated-leather/254971/14 "2010-10-11T18:34:21Z")
Although it likely is the element why not spend two minutes and diagnose it properly before going through the effort of buying a new seat or swapping in a new heating element?
With a side that works and a side that doesn’t it makes it real easy, take readings from the working side and compare it to the non working side, if the grid is OFL or shorted than obviously its that, but than again maybe you just have a blown fuse and it has no power source due a chafed wire somewhere.