Seat Ibiza front seat heater element exchange

The car front seats can be heated electrically during winter time. This is really great.
What's not so great is that once in a while will these elements break.
The question is when,not if. The probability increases with the cars mileage.

Anyway I own  a Seat Ibiza car, it is very close to the Volkswagen Polo and the Skoda Fabia. The seats are probably very similar over the whole VAG line.

My car is from 1998.

Step 1 Tools Required

You will need the following tools
Socket set (Not really, but there are some nuts and bolts)
Torx Screw driver (bits)
Allen Key
Thread Lock

AMP Connector disassembly tool
I did not know that this tool was needed when I started this project.
After some thought I decided to sacrifice my 0.9mm feeler blade. The feeler blade was grinded down to fit into the inserts for the disassembly tool. Note that two pieces are needed.

Comments

[magnu]

Hi, I have added a picture of the old heater element that I removed. The seat is back in the car, otherwhise it would have been great as an introductory picture. I will remember that next time

[lemonie]

I remember Seats when they were essentially Fiat's under licence, but without looking I'm not sure what the Marbella was - Panda?

L