My heated driver seat is not working neither is the switch on the console, the passenger seat works no problem. I am unable to get the console off to change over the driver passenger switch to check to see if the fault is the switch before I go about taking the seat out. If the switch light is not working does that indicate a small bulb gone in the switch or the switch is gone.
The console comes out fairly easily, there's just two screws, and if you have an automatic tranny there's a clip you have to take off the separate the halves at one end. If the switch doesn't light it's likely just the bulb burned out, but it could be the switch, your best bet is to measure voltage at the plug to the seat with the switch on. IIRC the switch connectors are keyed so you can't easily swap switches.
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Removing the panel of the console that the switches sit in is easy enough. Remove the ashtray and its housing as if you were getting to the fuses. On the bottom lip of the opening is a wide clip that spans a split in the panel and fastens it to a frame member - prise this clip off. Now undo the two screws that are visible adjacent to the switches. You should now be able to lift the panel away from the console, unhooking it from the handbrake housing and splaying the split section to get it awa\y from the gear lever. There may be a little more to it than this if you have a manual gear box.
Not sure if the switches are interchangeable - they connect to a couple of multiplugs that I seem to remember only go one way round. I may be wrong, or you may be able to patch it temporarily.
The bulb could have gone or the switch failed or both. It is possible to prise the switch open, but expect it to be full of bits you later cannot find a purpose for when reassembling it. But it may be amenable to cleaning. The bulbs are tiny fiddly things that are hard to source (don't expect Halfords to have any) and have to be soldered in.
More likely that the plug has become disconnected.
Cheers, Peter.
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