problem with seatbelt alarm

[slimsurf]

Hi anyone can help answer this I would be grateful

I have just bought and installed 2 new captains seats for my Kombi t6 they came from egoist van off Ebay and appear to be in perfect condition (hence my advert selling my 2 seats).

The new ones are on factory swivels and are heated which my original ones weren't. swapping them in was pretty simple and their was a wire from the base of the original seat which I presume is to the seat belt - I reconnected this on the new seat.

My problem is that now the seatbelt alarm goes off all the time.

- is it a faulty seat ?
- is it something about it now being a heated seat (I was planning to retrofit heated seat controls at some point but at the mo that connector is just dangling

I am a bit lost the easy answer is just disconnect it and the alarm stops but would prefer to know why

Any help appreciated



Beginning to think I might be a bit mistaken are both these leads for the heated seat ? I presumed one was for the seat belt

 

[Ads_Essex]

Beginning to think I might be a bit mistaken are both these leads for the heated seat ? I presumed one was for the seat belt

I was thinking that as I read your first post.
I take it you’ve since swapped them and tried driving it to see if it silences the alarm?

 

[slimsurf]

neither seem to work maybe they are both for the heated seats I'll have to have a proper look at the buckle anchor to see if a wire is attached to that at all

 

[Andysmee]

If the seats you've got came from a T5 the buckle won't be wired. Have they got a solid bar across the front to release the forward to back sliding mechanism, or a sticky-out handle?

 

[slimsurf]

A sticky out handle

 

[Andysmee]

Then they are normally wired but not to say someone didn't previously replace it with a non-wired version. You can usually see the wire if you peer down the side of the buckle, it's cable tied onto the stem

 

[slimsurf]

Thanks so much I now have a wired buckle to attach -- I think both those wires were in fact for the heated seats