Hello and welcome.
I am after some expertise and guidance. Unfortunately, I have a tear in the passenger front seat of our V60 Wagon T5. It has the R Design Heated seats in Fabric & Leather. I have managed to source a replacement seat in 100% condition, airbags are all intact and untampered with.
May I ask the correct removal and installation procedure when dealing with Powering Down the car and reconnection, then Powering Up the car?
Any advice would be most welcome, thank you in advance.
V60 RDesign Heated Front Seat Removal & Refitting Procedure
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Open bonnet, have doors unlocked and closed as well as tailgate. Wait 5 minutes then remove earth cable from battery. The systems will all be down by doing those steps before battery disconnect.
Remove seat switch housing/side cover. Remove seat belt end anchored to seat. Your new seat may have had the belt unbolted or they may have used the seatbelt end catch to release belt. The catch uses a flat stainless spring pushing a black metal plate against belt. The belt end is charcoal grey usually so you can tell which is which, insert and pry with blade screwdriver between the plate and belt end and pull on belt. Undo electrical connectors and then remove bolts and seat. The wrecker may have sold seat w/o the module under there for heated seat but you need to use yours anyway as it is mated to the car and mating another would require VIDA. Your R Design may have memory seat and that would require the other module be swapped to new seat also. The seat heater module looks like a relay, it is a rectangular box about 14 mm wide bye 35mm by 40mm or thereabouts. Memory seat will have the 1 2 3 memory position buttons and that box is bigger than seat heater box. The main connector has a screw in middle and the screw will back the connector off for you and will connect new seat when run down. I don't think you have occupant weight sensor in UK so that should not be an issue for you. If you have OWS then there will be a warning light in overheadsunroof switch/interior light panel to tell you the pass airbag is off. If you have that then you are stuck with getting the dealer to reload the OWS module so the new seat's module is "married" to the airbag control unit on your car.
When done just connecto earth. You do not need not do anything special when connecting battery. When airbag system has faults or if you just want to be extra safe Volvo has you reach behind steering wheel and push the start button and hold it for 5 sec to get power up. Many prefer sitting in middle of back seat and using a wooden dowel to push the button as you are in best place if the one in a billion chance happens and an airbag goes off when power comes on.
Remove seat switch housing/side cover. Remove seat belt end anchored to seat. Your new seat may have had the belt unbolted or they may have used the seatbelt end catch to release belt. The catch uses a flat stainless spring pushing a black metal plate against belt. The belt end is charcoal grey usually so you can tell which is which, insert and pry with blade screwdriver between the plate and belt end and pull on belt. Undo electrical connectors and then remove bolts and seat. The wrecker may have sold seat w/o the module under there for heated seat but you need to use yours anyway as it is mated to the car and mating another would require VIDA. Your R Design may have memory seat and that would require the other module be swapped to new seat also. The seat heater module looks like a relay, it is a rectangular box about 14 mm wide bye 35mm by 40mm or thereabouts. Memory seat will have the 1 2 3 memory position buttons and that box is bigger than seat heater box. The main connector has a screw in middle and the screw will back the connector off for you and will connect new seat when run down. I don't think you have occupant weight sensor in UK so that should not be an issue for you. If you have OWS then there will be a warning light in overheadsunroof switch/interior light panel to tell you the pass airbag is off. If you have that then you are stuck with getting the dealer to reload the OWS module so the new seat's module is "married" to the airbag control unit on your car.
When done just connecto earth. You do not need not do anything special when connecting battery. When airbag system has faults or if you just want to be extra safe Volvo has you reach behind steering wheel and push the start button and hold it for 5 sec to get power up. Many prefer sitting in middle of back seat and using a wooden dowel to push the button as you are in best place if the one in a billion chance happens and an airbag goes off when power comes on.
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