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Jan 7, 2008 | 02:53 PM

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Heated seats installed. Big Problem

I had heated seats installed in my car the other day. The person who installed them, said that they were working fine for about 3 minutes and then he turned them off, and was going to move the car out of the shop. He went to start it, and there is no power. The things that don't work are: radio, cigarette lighter, xm radio(wired to cigarette lighter), whole gauge cluster. The car won't start. I remember that when I was taking out the gauge cluster, I blew a fuse that caused those things not to work. Do you guys think that this would be the problem? If not, what else can he check? Any help would be appreciated.
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Jan 7, 2008 | 04:00 PM

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Blown fuse.
The seat heaters drew too much power.
Check the fuses.

Jan 7, 2008 | 08:25 PM

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It sounds like he drew the power from the factory acc power. He needs to run a new wire from the battery to a relay powering the heaters, and let the relay get turned on by the factory acc power. More than likely just blew the fuse, so replace it, and don't turn the heaters back on till they are wired better.

Jan 8, 2008 | 03:31 PM

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Thanks for the input. The directions said wire it to a 10 amp fuse or higher, and it blew the 10 amp. He then wired it to a 25 amp fuse, and no problems now.

Jan 8, 2008 | 05:41 PM

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Generally when directions say "x amps, OR HIGHER"...you should either A return the product (for fear of it burning the car down) or B, call the company and find out how much current they are actually going to draw and then size the fuse appropriately.

Jan 8, 2008 | 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by 2002ssls1

Thanks for the input. The directions said wire it to a 10 amp fuse or higher, and it blew the 10 amp. He then wired it to a 25 amp fuse, and no problems now.

A.) Did he actually create a new 25amp circuit?
-or-
B.) Did he replace a 10amp fuse with a 25amp fuse?
-or-
C.) Did he add this heater to an existing 25amp circuit and now possible push that circuit beyond its rating?

I hope he didn't do (B) or (C).
(especially not B)

Jan 8, 2008 | 07:35 PM

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It needs its own 10 amp circuit - it doesn't mean wire it to any circuit with a fuse of 10A or higher. Never use this guy again; this is BASIC electronics.