Seat plugged in to battery!

[Sabre]

Hi all, my battery died last week so messing about taking seats out to see what'll fit under there and I discovered an electrical connection to the driver seat. Don't have heated seats, I don't think. There's no control for it anyway. It's manual sliding so what could it be for?

 

[DXX]

Airbags

 

[Sabre]

Hmmm. Didn't think there were any in the seat? Can't see any!

 

[Pauly]

Airbag plugs are always yellow
Under the seat you normally have a two pin connector for the seatbelt sensor or more than two pins could be heated seat connector ?

 

[Loopdreams]

Don't the seats have a sensor to detect when the seat is occupied? I know in other cars I've had the seatbelt warning going off because of a bag of shopping.

 

[Sabre]

The occupied sensor seems to be the best option although I don't recall it ever chirping if I don't put my seatbelt on.
Defo not heated seats. This van was so basic I think the seats were options! :-D

 

[Pauly]

If you unplug the seatbelt sensor it will never chirp, there is no seat sensor on these so think you have the answer, plug it back in and the chirp should return

 

[Sabre]

But it was plugged in and has never chirped! I'm gonna test the seat belt theory now...

 

[dubber36]

There is a speed threshold before it chirps. At a guess I'd say it's the same forward speed that the parking sensors turn off.

 

[Andysmee]

Yep, it's definitely the seat belt buckle. There's no sensor on any of the seats for an occupant's weight, just the seat belt buckle. Hence, or otherwise the only seat that needs a wired buckle is the driver's.

Yesterday I encountered a front double seat with wired buckle from a T5.1, the first wired double passenger seat belt buckle I've seen The only explanation is that it was a LHD driver's double bench seat (yes, that was an option!). Wired single front seat belt buckles are common as they often originate as LHD driver's seats.

Heated seats also come out on a two pin plug and airbags are always yellow shielded connectors to prevent accidental triggering... I digress

 

[Ads_Essex]

But it was plugged in and has never chirped! I'm gonna test the seat belt theory now...

The previous owner may have coded it out with Carista or similar