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Old Jan 8, 2016 | 07:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Wayne Smith
There's no such thing as a good connection
You have my vote for President!
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Old Jan 11, 2016 | 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by jkw911
Follow up: I followed up on all of the advise and to restate my issue both seats were only getting barley warm. I disconnected the only electrical connector I could reach under the driver seat and reconnected it and that seemed to work. A week later I had the dealer look at it along with some other items and the dealer said the seats were heating properly. They are back to getting really hot and have to be turned off fairly quickly but I wish I had a more definitive solution to report. Thanks again for the help.
Nice to see the age old advice of "unplug it and replug it - ie reseat the connector" had value. Vibration does bad things to mechanical connectors, as does oxidation. Short of a mil spec connector, your likely to have connector issues here and there occasionally.
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Old Jan 11, 2016 | 09:09 PM
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Even with mil-spec throughout our controllers, connections fail. It is the nature of the beast. I find some contact cleaner sprays will attack the plastic, create out gassing, and coat the pins with plastic residue that is a bear to get off in a couple more years when it fails again. Better to unplug and plug a dozen (or two) times. Let the sliding pins do the cleaning. Use this as a standard first line of defense IMHO.
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