Corbin Heated Seat-no factory wire harness. How do I get power?

[GSMetal]

Hello All,

I just bought a 2014 65GT with a heated Corbin seat. The seat itself has the plug connected and ready but I have no power to it. A quick search on the internet shows I need a BMW wire harness that connects to the seat but where does the other end of that BMW wire harness go to? It looks like it plugs into some sort of module - not directly to the battery.

FYI -
- I have contacted Corbin and it’s a BMW wire harness that I need.

- I do not have a button on the handlebars for a heated seat.

- The Corbin seat I have has a switch for heat on the left side of the seat.

- I don’t have a pre- wired harness that is hiding behind the right back panel and attached to the frame.

Is there anyone out there that can shed some light on where the BMW harness would plug into or insight to give me?

 

[wspollack]

Hello All,

I just bought a 2014 65GT with a heated Corbin seat. The seat itself has the plug connected and ready but I have no power to it. A quick search on the internet shows I need a BMW wire harness that connects to the seat but where does the other end of that BMW wire harness go to? It looks like it plugs into some sort of module - not directly to the battery.

FYI -
- I have contacted Corbin and it’s a BMW wire harness that I need.

- I do not have a button on the handlebars for a heated seat.

- The Corbin seat I have has a switch for heat on the left side of the seat.

- I don’t have a pre- wired harness that is hiding behind the right back panel and attached to the frame.

Is there anyone out there that can shed some light on where the BMW harness would plug into or insight to give me?

Well, unless and until someone with a 650GT can answer your question better, if I were in your situation this is what I'd probably do:

1) Buy a commercial fuse panel.

For instance, I've used Eastern Beaver's PC-8 (https://www.easternbeaver.com/Main/Wiring_Kits/Fuseboxes/PC-8/pc-8.html) on a couple of bikes. (There's newer version, the PC-8R now: https://www.easternbeaver.com/Main/Wiring_Kits/Fuseboxes/PC-8R/PC-8R_PDM.html). Fuzeblock's FZ-1 (https://www.fuzeblocks.com/) is another popular brand, and there are dozens more.

2) Pick an ignition-on power source to tap into, to serve as the trigger to the fuse panel.

Perhaps this would be some marker light. In any event, you would want the heated seat to lose power when the bike's turned off, regardless of the position of the switch that Corbin provides.

3) Run the main power leads from the fuse panel to the battery.

This is how fuse panels are typically used, i.e., they get power from the battery -- so that no tiny stock wires or stock fuses are overloaded -- the newly added devices are powered from the battery but through the fuse panel, and everything is shut down when the bike is.

4) Connect the plug from the Corbin seat to the fuse panel.

This would probably entail your snipping off the plug itself, so that you could connect the Corbin's wires to the fuse panel. (If you needed extra lengths of wires, depending on where you mounted the fuse panel, you could extend those Corbin wires using Posi-Locks or, my favorite, Wago clamp connectors, or something like that.)

All of this would result in the seat's getting power only when the bike is running -- no potential for battery draining, and no potential for overloading existing circuits -- and you would control the seat heating using the Corbin's switch.

At least that's how I think I would tackle the project. I looked at the parts fiche at Max BMW (https://shop.maxbmw.com/fiche/DiagramsMain.aspx?vid=58477&rnd=10232024 ) and couldn't find a seat-heating cord listed, but if some 650 owner (I have a C 400 GT) knows about one, that might be a better solution.

Good luck.

 

[Dan_Lockwood]

The Corbin switch mimics the BMW OEM seat switch. This switch is for the REAR SEATING AREA ONLY! You will need to determine on the wiring harness plug, which wire goes to the front and which is the rear seat heater.

You will have to come up with an on/off front rider's switch and mount it conveniently to reach for you, the driver.

Good luck!

Dan