mmarinov Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 Hello all, I bought my '07 DTS Performance in 8/2011 at 47K and my heated seats stopped working at just a nick over 50K miles. The local dealership (Huber Cadillac in Omaha, NE) made a call on my behalf to GM and replaced the module underneath the passenger seat for half cost (cost me $400). Fast forward to April 2014 and the problem happened again. After searching the CI/CO forums I found some great info which got me pointed in the right direction. I went to the dealer and purchased the "new" cheap, plastic P/N 15326110 which superseded 15306171. Went home and pulled the seat (HUGE thanks to BobbieB's post here: http://www.cadillacforums.com/forums/cadillac-dts-forum-2006-through-2012/285451-heated-seats-parking-sensors-stopped-working.html#post3288711 I found that the main 12V wire (14AWG?) had burned through the plastic connector. At this point I elected not to re-pin the new, cheap plastic connector as there's no reason to believe it wouldn't just happen again. Went to the dealer and they had no suggestions/workarounds. What I ended up doing was purchasing 8 new metal connector pins (for which I was charged a hefty $10 apiece). I decided to bypass the plastic and ended up soldering the wires to the new pins, and used heat-shrink tubing (rated at 200+ degrees fht) and went straight to the male ends of the module. I made sure the heat-shrink tubing was covering everything almost flush to the end of each pin, and of course made sure to keep each wire in the correct position. End result is that 5 months later, everything is still working perfectly with nearly daily use of the heated/cooled seats (yeah, I am one of those people haha). There is no evidence of melting, burning, or anything else at this point in time. I wanted to post what I did in the hopes someone out there can make this "$900 repair" into about an $80 repair with a little work. I also wanted to have some time to validate the results and I gotta tell ya, it worked out great for me. YMMV. Mark Quote <!--fonto:Arial--><span style="font-family:Arial"><!--/fonto-->2007 DTS Performance - 50K <!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc--> As a matter of fact, I <i>am</i> driving 70 MPH in a phone booth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockfangd Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 great info. Hey if it has them use and enjoy them Quote GM FAN FOREVER Nice, clean, luxury= fine automobile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Jim Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 I love the Air Conditioned seats in my DTS... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldoradoman2001 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Heated and Cooled seats are just part of being a Cadillac man and I love being a Cadillac man!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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