1998 V70 12V Plug and Heated Seat Issues

hockeyjake1997 · Post by **hockeyjake1997** » 08 Apr 2015, 17:50

Hello, looking for some insight into some small electrical problems inside the car. The passenger heated seat does not work, and the LED doesn't light when the switch is clicked. Driver works fine. Also, the rear 12V plug does not work. Any tips on fixing these? Thanks!

Post by **Ozark Lee** » 08 Apr 2015, 18:44

By itself I would suspect that the seat heater switch is bad. Those switches are terrible on the 70 series cars and they have a tendency to pop the bottom of the switch out. Given that the rear socket isn't working either though it may be that a connector to the console isn't plugged all the way in.

To inspect the switches you only need to pop the coin tray out and the switches are right there. To get to the plugs that power the console you need to pop the trim piece under the parking brake out, sideways, and the two electrical connectors are right there. Be careful popping the center piece of trim out. It is not real intuitive how it releases and the tabs are somewhat fragile. It is easy to break that piece of trim in the process of removing it.

...Lee

hockeyjake1997 · Post by **hockeyjake1997** » 02 May 2015, 06:43

I should have answered this sooner, but cleaning the switch did fix it. Plug is still a mystey