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      08-23-2014, 07:08 PM   #265
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      08-24-2014, 05:11 PM   #266
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Well, I still have no idea whether my new seats are heated or not, but most importantly I managed to get my lumbar and bolsters working.
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      01-08-2015, 05:27 PM   #267
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I just wanna add that once all wired up, I just swapped my existing dash buttons with ones that had heated seats and they work without any sort of coding. So I went from leatherette no heat, non sport and no power to full power, heat and electric M3 black novillo leather
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      01-09-2015, 07:01 AM   #268
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I never got to the bottom of whther my MSport seats were heated or not, though I suspect they are not - shame as I'd love heated seats in this weather!
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      01-13-2015, 03:42 PM   #269
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you have to check the module, what is connected... or check the oem number if the seats are heated

as far i check the connection scheme...the pin 4 is for heating. so if you have cables from pin 4 on your seat... I hope they are heated. I also belive if you have the big module uder seat, then you have heated seats.

was your previous seats heated? if yes, then it should work after CAN connection. If not, maybe you have to code your car

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      01-17-2015, 12:48 PM   #270
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I have the same problem, i had non-sport manual, heated seats. I retrofittted m sport, electrical heated seats with memory. Both seats have a seat-module and both needed the canbus connections on pin 2 and 3. Seat adjusting, memory and bolsters are working perfectly, but the heating does not work. I'm going to search someone to code the car so i can get my heated seats working, as my girlfriend will kill me
It's a EURO car by the way.
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      01-18-2015, 11:30 AM   #271
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I had heated seats from factory...and acording my VIN equipment..you have to add $494 code to your VA list. and code the car. its easy
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      01-19-2015, 10:09 AM   #272
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thanks for the reply, i'm afraid I just don't have heated seats, both seats have the large seat module, but i'm missing 2 connections on both:


the circled connections are the ones for seat heating
allthough, the seller claimed the seats were heated, it was a breaker who said he even has the "control panel" with the two heating buttons coming out of the same car. I just can't believe it...

can someone with heated seats check if he also misses those 2 connections ? But I'm afraid all heated seats will have them.
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      01-19-2015, 08:24 PM   #273
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hi all, i read this a couple of times & still confused as i am not a technical person.. I will be getting a wire man to do for me but i will need to explain to him how..

My ride is an E92 LCI model which comes with standard electric seat with out heat.

I had changed to a E92 M3 electric seats but my Lumbar & side bolster not working for both seats.

I read that i should connect :
PIN8(gnd) to PIN13
PIN4(extra 12v) to PIN7

i wanna know on which harness should we change? The seat harness? And when we say move from 8 > 13 & 4 > 7, do we literally move the wire over or we need to connect another wire from pin 8 and link to 13 ? same for 4 to 7.
And all i need to do is to connect the wires as above & is there anything else i need to do ??? FUSE ???

another issue i have is that the M3 driver seats don't seem to have seat occupation wire on pins 10 & 11 so in this case my seat belt extender does not push out the seat belt at all.
How can i retrofit this into driver seat??

PLease help. appreciate
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      01-20-2015, 09:17 AM   #274
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your best bet is to change the seat harness, so you can just switch your old seats in whenever you want to.

Just look at your existing seat harness to see on which pin the +12V is present ( pin 7, 9 or 4), it's a red cable (or brown red, black red,...)
on your new seat harness, place the pin (brown-red ? cable) on the same place as what you had on your old harness + solder/splice the other red cable(for the heating) on the same cable as you have just connected.
do the same for the brown cables. (match with the brown cables of course)
In fact, al you need to do is think logically and line-up/match the colors and places of your original seat harness.

don't forget to add the K_can wires (green and green-orange) on pin2 and 3, if your previous seats didn't already have memory.
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your best bet is to change the seat harness, so you can just switch your old seats in whenever you want to.

Just look at your existing seat harness to see on which pin the +12V is present ( pin 7, 9 or 4), it's a red cable (or brown red, black red,...)
on your new seat harness, place the pin (brown-red ? cable) on the same place as what you had on your old harness + solder/splice the other red cable(for the heating) on the same cable as you have just connected.
do the same for the brown cables. (match with the brown cables of course)
In fact, al you need to do is think logically and line-up/match the colors and places of your original seat harness.

don't forget to add the K_can wires (green and green-orange) on pin2 and 3, if your previous seats didn't already have memory.
Great!!! I think I understand now.. appreciate.. but I don't need the heating as I don't have it anyway..

current seats have memory so nothing need to be done ya..

Thanks a lot..


next I need to know if m3 DRIVER seat comes with seat occupation sensor which will activate the seat belt extender to push out the seat belt? My passenger seat is working but not the driver seat..
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      01-23-2015, 08:46 AM   #276
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Has anyone upgraded from the base seat with partial electric movement (recline and up/down, no memory) and heating to fully electrical sport seats with memory and heating?
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      01-25-2015, 09:09 PM   #277
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your best bet is to change the seat harness, so you can just switch your old seats in whenever you want to.

Just look at your existing seat harness to see on which pin the +12V is present ( pin 7, 9 or 4), it's a red cable (or brown red, black red,...)
on your new seat harness, place the pin (brown-red ? cable) on the same place as what you had on your old harness + solder/splice the other red cable(for the heating) on the same cable as you have just connected.
do the same for the brown cables. (match with the brown cables of course)
In fact, al you need to do is think logically and line-up/match the colors and places of your original seat harness.

don't forget to add the K_can wires (green and green-orange) on pin2 and 3, if your previous seats didn't already have memory.
Just to share that i had managed to sort out my seats..

As my original seats are full electric seats with memory, replacing the M3 seats(full electric seats with memory + bolster/Lumbar support) are pretty easy.

Got a wireman to help me connect(Solder from existing Pin 4 wire) PIN 4 > PIN 7 & do the same for PIN 8 > PIN 13.

Once this is done everything is working.. Am happy with the seats now !!!

thanks all for helping..
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      01-26-2015, 09:48 PM   #278
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If anyone needs the pins for retrofitting I have 10 pieces of 61131383776 and 10 pieces of 61138364844. More than enough to do a full retrofit of both front seats the "oem" way through the harness. $20 takes all. PM me
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      01-27-2015, 04:09 AM   #279
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Hi all, can someone please help to confirm if E92 M3 DRIVER seat comes with seat occupation sensor which will activate the seat belt extender to push out the seat belt?

My passenger seat is working but not the driver seat..

according to a coding guy, he told me all the M3 he coded has seat occupation sensor which will push out the seat belt..

So for this reason my airbag is activated & i have to turn it disable it now..

Looking at the seat socket diagram provided here, i saw that passenger seat pin # 10 & 11 shows that it has seat occupation but for driver seat seem to be empty..

Can someone tell me what should i do ? thanks alot..
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      01-31-2015, 10:16 AM   #280
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thanks for the reply, i'm afraid I just don't have heated seats, both seats have the large seat module, but i'm missing 2 connections on both:


the circled connections are the ones for seat heating
allthough, the seller claimed the seats were heated, it was a breaker who said he even has the "control panel" with the two heating buttons coming out of the same car. I just can't believe it...

can someone with heated seats check if he also misses those 2 connections ? But I'm afraid all heated seats will have them.
Can anyone confirm that these are the connectors for the heating on the drivers seat? What about the passenger seat?




Which wires are ground and +12 on these outlets (seats are from an Z4 E89 2010)? I'm retrofitting these in an older car without canbus, therefore the question. My plan is to "hot-wire" the seat heating with an aftermarket external switch/relay. Any ideas?
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      02-16-2015, 11:25 AM   #281
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I had nonsport seats with heat and lumbar. I just installed sport seats with heat and lumbar.

My old seats used pin 7 for lumbar, but the new seats use pin 9 for lumbar and side bolsters. So pin 7 has power but is not being used, pin 9 is being used but has no power.

Can I just modify my car's harness and move the cable from pin 7 to pin 9? Pin 7 is thin and pin 9 is wide, so I want to make sure it won't cause any problems.
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      02-23-2015, 05:29 PM   #282
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My seat belt tensioners were deployed during the previous car crash. I replaced them with the old ones.



When the root cause is resolve, you can remove the airbag error with INPA (coding)
one of my seats has the holder sunk in like this, does it mean airbag was deployed ? (I bought them from someone)
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My seat belt tensioners were deployed during the previous car crash. I replaced them with the old ones.



When the root cause is resolve, you can remove the airbag error with INPA (coding)
one of my seats has the holder sunk in like this, does it mean airbag was deployed ? (I bought them from someone)
The airbag pop on a side crash
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I had nonsport seats with heat and lumbar. I just installed sport seats with heat and lumbar.

My old seats used pin 7 for lumbar, but the new seats use pin 9 for lumbar and side bolsters. So pin 7 has power but is not being used, pin 9 is being used but has no power.

Can I just modify my car's harness and move the cable from pin 7 to pin 9? Pin 7 is thin and pin 9 is wide, so I want to make sure it won't cause any problems.
any help?
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      02-25-2015, 01:58 PM   #285
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I retrofitted sport seats into my non sport 335. My factory seats are heat, power and memory. The sport seats I bought are heat, power and memory also. The passenger seat went in fine - bolsters work. Completely plug and play.

The drivers side, however, clicks (relay sound) when I try to move it to bolt it in. It also clicks when I press every other button on the seat. I have a feeling its the module that came with the seat. I'm going to swap modules from my factory seat to the new sport seat to see what that does.

Any ideas what is causing this?
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Where can I find those connectors to connect pins, instead of soldering them?
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