Re: Rear fuse box

I don't think my 3-door Stilo Abarth has got a rear fuse box - but I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong!

The only fuses I've found are under the dash to the right of the steering column, and on top of the battery in the engine bay...

Re: Rear fuse box

redvtec said:

Do all 3 doors have a rear fuse box? As I want to wire up my seat heaters?

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I was under the impression that the rear fuse box was fitted to all Stilos, because it also provides the power supply to the optional Bose amplifier and sub-woofer. However, according to the options list, that was not an available option on the Active and Active Air/Con versions, so perhaps those versions didn't have the fuse box pre-fitted.

Both of my Stilo Dynamics (March 2003 with memory adjustable, heated seats, and October 2003 with just the basic heated seats) have the fuse box, but neither of them have the Bose amplifier.

Basic heated seats were part of the "Cold Weather Pack", which included headlamp washers and heated front windscreen washer jets,

redvtec said:

If so where is it as I can't find it!

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If your car has it, it will be low down behind a Velcro attached access panel in the left boot liner side panel. I posted a photo of the fuse box in post 2 above.
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Thanks I will have another look tomorrow, weather has been rubbish today, if not I was going to get a piggyback mini blade fuse and put that in the cigar fuse space, then run a wire that splits to both seats, and then run an earth from each seat, that should. Give me the power, I read the heaters are fused at 10amp each, the cigarette lighter is 20amp.

When I got my stilo the privious owner had wired it in with speaker wire to the battery. I then ripped it all out and used 8gauge positive and negative for the seats main power from the battery with a 30amp fuse. Then solderd the seat canbus wires to the canbus system next to the fuse box, now the seats work as they should when the car is turned off and also when on so the heater in them won't stay on if left on by accident

wilko1992 said:

Then solderd the seat canbus wires to the canbus system next to the fuse box

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Had yours been retro fitted with the 3 position memory seats with heaters, or the basic heated seats?

The basic heated seats don't need a CAN connection.
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They have all the goodies even tho I'm still to work out the memory setting [emoji23][emoji23]

wilko1992 said:

They have all the goodies even tho I'm still to work out the memory setting

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Work out how to use it, or how to wire it?

To use it, you adjust the driver's seat and both door mirrors to the required positions, then hold one of the 3 memory buttons down until you get a 'beep' from the instrument cluster. Two other drivers can make their adjustments, then each set one of the other two buttons.

The wiring is much more complicated for the memory seats with heaters than the basic heated seats. If the previous owner wired the heated part with speaker wire, I would be inclined to check how he wired the rest of it.
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Oh so that's how you do it lol

Right I have started wiring a loom from the cigar lighter on the fuse box with a piggyback blade adapter, under the seat I have black plugs with two wires, Drivers side is thick black and thin black with white stripe passenger side is thick black and thin grey, is the black the power??? that would make sense to me.

Black wires are usually earth wires.

Post pictures of the two black plugs showing the wire colours.

Are you retro fitting heated seats with the switches on the front of the seats, or electrically adjustable heated seats with the heater switches on the side of the seats?
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Davren thanks for the help they are seats with the switches on the front. I was thinking black for earth, but was also thinking surely the power would be the thicker wire as its carrying the power. i'll post a pic in a bit

All wired up, piggy back fuse off the cigarette fuse, spurred into two branches, then earthed from the seat socket to a bit under the center console. The thick black wire is the power. all toasty