Installed LED lights, now throwing codes

[lmoengnr]

(ffs we live in a hot climate and coolers are more useful than seat warmers)…

Hmmm, finish night shift, walk to the car park, start car, turn on seat warmers, spend 5 minutes scraping the ice from the windscreen with an ID card, finally leave for home with a warm bum!

 

[panhead]

For those of us who live in the warmer parts of Australia, seat warmers are not needed, I can live without them.

Anyway, after a while, the seat warmers in my cars just make me wanna pee.




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[Skylarking]

Hmmm, finish night shift, walk to the car park, start car, turn on seat warmers, spend 5 minutes scraping the ice from the windscreen with an ID card, finally leave for home with a warm bum!

I’m sure those living in our alpine region also like the seat warmers but it’s a no brainer to have included seat coolers as the preferred option for a larger group of individuals who hate enduring oppressive summers and dislike sweaty bums

Really if I had a choice, and I didn’t as far as Motorsport edition goes, I’d go coolers over heaters and time. But we really should have got both, especially in the best of the last (which have some shortcomings when compared to the Chevy SS which has seat heaters and coolers).

Though it may be possible to retrofit the Chevy SS seat cooler parts into our seats and then add the wiring and the heater/cooler buttons to the dash, programming the appropriate modules to work with that stuff will almost certainly be an issue (GM loves to abstract the module configurations id’s into some odd part numbering format so manually choosing the correct s/w may be difficult if impossible for the uninitiated to cross flash such a feature on said modules). It all comes back to what @darrenj9413 & @stooge both correctly highlighted

As a general comment for led globe upgrades and DTC’s being raised, I posted a video in another thread some time ago which showed how the VW crowd mod their vehicles firmware by changing a specific module data word that allows the system to work with led globe and only provide a DTC when the led globe is faulty… something the GM/H hackers have yet worked out how to do

 

[RevNev]

I think these cars are actually fairly sophisticated and are better left stock. Any alteration electronically to equipment simply has a domino effect and is not worth the trouble. They where built to a high standard in the first place with a high level of equipment so why mess with them. Thats my take anyway.

The Commodore is most widely modified car in Australia with the vulnerability to attract unskilled people modifying them for pleasure and commercial gain. Consequently, we see many modifications that don't work well, aren't successful and should've have been left alone.

On the other hand, there are some great modifications done by skillful people that Holden should've done at the factory and results in a superior car like the headlights. BA Falcon headlights from 2002 are better than VF headlights, in fact the light spread, and distance of VF headlights are pretty bad compared with the opposition manufacturers. Holden didn't do a great job with the VF headlights and they're worth improving.

The forum is a great place to share what we've done with headlight modifications, what works well, what doesn't and how to fit alternative bulbs free of electronic faults and interference.

 

[RevNev]

ffs we live in a hot climate and coolers are more useful than seat warmers

It mystifies me why the VF GTS has seat warmers but no multi driver seat memory. Wouldn't seat position memory be a better GTS upgrade than seat warmers? The Chev SS got most of the convenience options the VF missed out on.

 

[Skylarking]

Wouldn't seat position memory be a better GTS upgrade than seat warmers?

Not if I had a GTS as I’d be the only driver

(and having a cool bum on that hot dash for fish and chips would be more useful to me than coping with the occasional mechanic moving my seat during a service )

 

[Phillbo]

I have quad projectors with X9S LEDS in mine. The improvement is leaps and bounds better then OEM

 

[lmoengnr]

I have quad projectors with X9S LEDS in mine. The improvement is leaps and bounds better then OEM

How about some pics?

 

[Phillbo]

Hope these are clear enough. I opted for the blackened surrounds which makes it hard to see the projector housings.

 

[RevNev]

Not if I had a GTS as I’d be the only driver

You move the seat to vacuum the car, then you adjust it 10 times because it doesn't feel right! You believe the seat memory more than the seat of your pants if you have to move the seat for any reason! I agree with the "only driver" concept nonetheless!