My heated seats saga . . . Update

skelters · Post by **skelters** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 5:34 pm

Heated seats and Xenons are really the only options required.

Heated seats or no to heated seats poll required!

Worcester_spoon · Post by **Worcester_spoon** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 5:45 pm

The forum mod squad strike again! Great works all, and congrats Marlon.

RickRob · Post by **RickRob** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 5:57 pm

Congratulations and a great Forum team effort to ensure Marlon and Lady Marlon have toasty bums. Let's hope you get a cold but sunny spell soon! Roof off, seats on, heater up, sunglasses on - motoring bliss!

David-H · Post by **David-H** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 6:13 pm

RickRob wrote:Congratulations and a great Forum team effort to ensure Marlon and Lady Marlon have toasty bums. Let's hope you get a cold but sunny spell soon! Roof off, seats on, heater up, sunglasses on - motoring bliss!

That'll be for the meet on Sunday which is forecast to be sunny!

Post by **srhutch** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 7:07 pm

patriot66 wrote:
Marlon wrote:
craig3.2 wrote:Yeah,Marlon,the sports seats are good,I never felt the standard seats should have been fitted by BMW as it's a sports car,and sports seats should have been a given,lol . . .
Yep - couldn't agree more Craig.
Don't forget it was built in America where sports seats are useless because nobody can get their big fat ar*es into one !

Also standard seats are classed as "Sports Seats" in the brochure. The ones everybody wants are M Sport Seats.

MACK · Post by **MACK** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 7:21 pm

Marlon wrote:I now have heated seats

Apparently the looms went in fairly straightforwardly, apart from the usual faff of having to dismantle half of the interior.

Huge thanks and respect to Fishy Dave, without whom this would not have been possible (details earlier in thread).

It took a long time and a lot of effort but was worth it.
I drove back from the garage with roof down and seat on full - I'd forgotten just how toasty hot they get

Before & after pics

Before:

After:

Good result and hopefully this will be useful to other post facelift owners over the coming years!

Taz · Post by **Taz** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 7:29 pm

sweaty bottoms

Marlon · Post by **Marlon** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:48 pm

nb67 wrote:Great news buddy.

Finally sorted just as we hit Summer

Fingers crossed the indicator keeps behaving too.

Cheers mate,
Will use the heated seats for the drive over to the TurnPike meet on Sunday morning

Indicator hasn't error'd now for over 5 weeks

All good

Marlon · Post by **Marlon** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:51 pm

mr.tourette wrote: seats

all worth it in the end... well done for seeing it through

Thanks Steve,

I was trying for several months to source a loom from a breakers with no luck - its been a long slog.

Marlon · Post by **Marlon** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:53 pm

skelters wrote:

Heated seats and Xenons are really the only options required.

Heated seats or no to heated seats poll required!

Xenons - stop it

Marlon · Post by **Marlon** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:56 pm

Worcester_spoon wrote:The forum mod squad strike again! Great works all, and congrats Marlon.

Yeah, the help and support here is quite astounding.

Marlon · Post by **Marlon** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:02 pm

RickRob wrote:Congratulations and a great Forum team effort to ensure Marlon and Lady Marlon have toasty bums. Let's hope you get a cold but sunny spell soon! Roof off, seats on, heater up, sunglasses on - motoring bliss!

Yes great teamwork as you say, and as DLH pointed out we can use them on Sunday morning, its an early start and the forecast is clear skies - so perfect

Marlon · Post by **Marlon** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:09 pm

Mack - the issue post facelift owners will have if trying to copy this retro-fit in the future is that BMW may discontinue the X3 retro-fit looms, just as they did with the Z4 retro-fit. They are already extremely difficult to source (Fishy Dave has the details of the U.S. supplier if other members are interested).

Zed Five · Post by **Zed Five** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:01 am

Great work.

Now you just need to rub all those red marks off your seat

Zed Five · Post by **Zed Five** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:02 am

Nav retrofit next? Go onnnnn...its not too bad, just dremel that dash!

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