Since there is no wiring, the dial sits at zero even when I turned the knob. The MMI automatically sees the new controller, no need to use VCDS to activate it, it may cause CP (component protection). Since I don’t know where the heat elements wires connected to the controller, I don’t use the new controller at all. For quick retrofit, I bought the carbon fiber heated elements for the back seats.<\/em><\/p>\n For coding the VCDS when I get the original heated seat elements installed.<\/em><\/p>\n \/\/audiforum.us\/threads\/q7-climate-control-coding.14272\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n My 08 Q7 doesn’t have cold weather package=> no rear heated seats. I heard in the forums that rear seats were prewired with heat elements and all we need is the 4zone AC controller, but I was wrong. I bought the controller with Heated Seat buttons, replaced it and it doesn’t see the temperature …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,520],"tags":[385,386,392,387],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-q7","category-vcds","tag-4zone","tag-heated-seats","tag-q7-4zone","tag-rear-bench"],"views":3482,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5716,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/5716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Controller\"](\"\/media\/audis\/q7\/seat\/sm_qheat7.JPG\" "\\"Controller")
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