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MG TD TF 1500 - Heated seats..

As I am about to re-upholster the seats in my TD, I am considering incorporating heating elements in the lower seat base, as the car is used regularly throughout the winter. The power supply would be of course 12 V and I plan to take the elements from a scrapped modern car,plenty to choose from.
Does anyone have experience in this type of modification and can offer any tips? Thanks in advance.
IW Martin

Hi IW, unless you have converted to an alternator i suspect you might be drawing a few too many amps for the original system - particularly if driving with headlights on.

Just recently i was demonstrating the heated seats on our Passat to a grandson but found that instead of turning them off after the heating effect became noticeable i had merely turned them down from level 3 to level 2. By the time we reached his school my seat was fairly sizzling...

Now if you come across a way to add aircon i would be interested as we are only a couple of hundred miles S of the tropic.

Chris
C I Twidle

I did not mention re alternator,the conversion has been done. As I live in Scotland, heated seats would be more welcome than aircon! When the weather permits we just take off the hood! I was planning a straightforward on/off switch incorporating a thermostat and obviously a safety cutout.
IW Martin

This thread was discussed between 18/10/2020 and 19/10/2020

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