Heated seats turning off..

I spent a lot of time researching GM's factory heated seats when I wanted to install heated seats in my cloth 1LT. You can see my how-to link in my signature.

GM has a lot of safety features in their heated seat circuits. There's even a heated seat control module. I think that's under the drivers seat.

First off I'd check the fuse box for blown fuses. I think both seats run off the same circuit, so chances are it's not a fuse. Over time the resistance of the heated seat mats increase. If they increase too far, the heated seats go into standby protection.

I'm guessing the drivers side has had more sitting in it, and there's a short in either the bottom but seat cushion or the seat back. Do both the butt and the back go cold, or can you determine which one?

You may have to find the wiring connectors for the pads, unzip the leather seat back, zippers are at the seams in the back bottom. Sliding the seat forward and access from the back. (See my pictures in my thread.)

Disconnect the heat pad on the butt. Either check resistance with a multimeter, or now try the heated seats with the butt disconnected. Somehow you need to determine which heating element you are going to replace. They are about $60 each, and while both will be accessible, if your trying to save money troubleshoot the resistance of the heated pad circuit, and see if the seat will fire up, with the bad pad unplugged.

Good Luck-

I wonder if my GMPP would cover this for 84 months or 7 years, that is if my seats had this heat feature. $1120 provides a lot of protection

ChevyGuy said:

"GMPP by Ally" isn't really third-party. Unfortunately, I don't think it's available for sale anymore. GM and Ally parted ways. Hopefully the Dealer and Ally still work together so I don't have to get into the middle of it.

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This policy is still issued by MIC and sold everywhere under various names. GM has not financially backed these plans since 2002

[FONT=&quot]Finance was the core business. Insurance came later. And vehicle service contracts were an even more recent addition to the product line. The Motors Insurance Corp. was formed in 1939, as the in-house underwriter of GMAC's insurance products. In 1973, Motors Insurance Corp. began selling what were then called mechanical breakdown protection plans -- what would nowadays be called vehicle service contracts.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The service contracts were not insurance products. However, they became part of GMAC's insurance business unit. The General Motors Protection Plans (in the U.S.) and the Car Care Plans (in other countries) were sold to consumers by GM-franchised dealers, through their dealerships' finance and insurance departments.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Up until 2002, General Motors itself was the obliger. GM, in turn, would insure its business risk through a contractual liability policy purchased from GMAC Insurance. But then the structure of the business changed, so that it was GMAC selling the service contract to the customer, and it was GMAC that became the obligor.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]According to GMAC's financial statements, this change was designed to concentrate all business related to service contracts with GMAC Insurance (where the activities were managed), rather than splitting the business between GM and GMAC Insurance. At the time, since GMAC was wholly-owned by GM, this change was little more than accounting trivia.[/FONT]
GMAC Service Contracts, 17 June 2010