heated seat not working

[Md567]

Hello all, my heated drivers seat on my 2002 mountaineer is not working,I have read a lot about this problem and know it can be the element,can someone tell me how to take the seat cover off and check the element..Thanks!!

 

[waskly]

you can use an multimeter and ohm the seat pad at the connector under it, if its OL the pad is no good.

 

[MSM0075]

I'm having a simular problem with my '02 Mountaineer. Seems to be passengers side only...Lets say (for example) we went on a trip. used the heated seat once maybe twice.... go to turn it back on, nothing....It works most of the time but theres always that chance it dosn't want to...

Weird..

 

[EasyRhino]

I would definitely do a continuity check across the heater terminals (of course after checking all of the other usual suspects) before I even considered removing and rebuilding a seat.

Particularly if the fault seemed to be intermittent.