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Underseat lights C5 X7

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Hello everyone!

I'd like to mount on my car the rear passenger foot lights. I found to buy the lamps but the problem is that I don't have a diagram to see where the lamps are connected. I suppose that are connected in the connector under the seat.
There is any chance to find an electric diagram for these lights?
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I'll have a look for you in a second :-D
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Ok, so I've just cut out the relevant extract and written the key for the relevant components for you.

3038 & 3039 are the underseat lamps and they share the same earth as 3072, (the font RH door lamp). The power is supplied via 6338, the Seat Position Memory ECU.

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X1Ref Seal Lamp Wiring.PNG
6338: Seat position memory ECU
3038: Rear RH footwell lighting[/color]
3039: Left-hand rear footwell lamp
3043: Rear LH interior door opening control lamp
3044: Rear right interior door opening control light
3048: Driver's interior door opening control light
3072: Front LH door lamp
3073: Front RH door lamp
6036: Driver's door electric window/mirror control pad
6338: Seat position memory ECU
6404: Passenger´s rear view mirror memorisation and lighting control unit
6212: Rear left-hand door lock assembly
6217: Rear right-hand door lock assembly
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Great!
Thanks a lot, Marc!
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I tried yesterday to remove the seat position memory Ecu from under the seat but without success. I think I have to remove the hole seat from the car to have access to Ecu.
I saw that seat Ecu has three connectors and each one connector has the pins numbered by column (A,B,C) and row (from 1 to 9).
In the diagram is indicated pin A7 but all three connector have a A7 pin.
Marc, could you tell me what is 3006? maybe is the connector code.
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Ok let me fire up the HAL9000💻
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According to the diagram above, it is a brown connector, is there more than one of them?
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xf1ref wrote: 05 Jul 2018, 09:18 I tried yesterday to remove the seat position memory Ecu from under the seat but without success. I think I have to remove the hole seat from the car to have access to Ecu.
I saw that seat Ecu has three connectors and each one connector has the pins numbered by column (A,B,C) and row (from 1 to 9).
In the diagram is indicated pin A7 but all three connector have a A7 pin.
Marc, could you tell me what is 3006? maybe is the connector code.


Ok, so 3006 is the Rear footwell lights supply (BSI).
B831A & B831B are battery + supply wires (any wire with the first letter 'B' is Battery +)

The Seat Position Memory ECU (6338) uses the CAN High (9025) & CAN Low (9024) networks to control various functions.

You have to remember that the diagrams are all separate and only show the relevant connections for the parts under query and for the fitted options. The ECU socket for this relevant diagram is a 24 pin Brown using the pin A7 as you say - but remember this diagram is specifically for the lighting aspects.

Here is another diagram for comparison of the Driver's Electric Seat - here you can see the other connections on the unit, but the pin assignments are labelled differently, with different connections because I had to specify these to get this diagram up.

The others shown here are a 24 Pin Grey and 24 pin Black socket. They control the electric seat functionality for passenger and driver. They may also connect the control and power for the massaging function (for the full leather seats only) and the heated seats, plus of course the AFIL (Lane Wandering) system chair vibrators (again if fitted as an option). Those components have different wiring diagrams too.
X1REF Seal Lamp Wiring B.PNG
6338 ECU Showing Electric Seat Connections
So basically regarding the rear lighting, there will be the battery + supply, common earth and then the CAN network also switching these on and off and controlling them.

Unfortunately the PIN assignments are not always the same as options change on the vehicles and there isn't one complete diagram showing everything with every option - only the component parts. :-D

I would go and have a look at mine, but the car is loaded up with parts to assemble a 3 seater garden bench on Saturday, so all the seats are folded down! :-D
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xantia_v6 wrote: 05 Jul 2018, 09:31 According to the diagram above, it is a brown connector, is there more than one of them?
Yes - another 2 at least - but only shown when looking at a specific area Mike as you probably know. I have dug up another one above for the electric seat part.
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GiveMeABreak wrote: 05 Jul 2018, 10:14
xf1ref wrote: 05 Jul 2018, 09:18 I tried yesterday to remove the seat position memory Ecu from under the seat but without success. I think I have to remove the hole seat from the car to have access to Ecu.
I saw that seat Ecu has three connectors and each one connector has the pins numbered by column (A,B,C) and row (from 1 to 9).
In the diagram is indicated pin A7 but all three connector have a A7 pin.
Marc, could you tell me what is 3006? maybe is the connector code.


Ok, so 3006 is the Rear footwell lights supply (BSI).
B831A & B831B are battery + supply wires (any wire with the first letter 'B' is Battery +)

The Seat Position Memory ECU (6338) uses the CAN High (9025) & CAN Low (9024) networks to control various functions.

You have to remember that the diagrams are all separate and only show the relevant connections for the parts under query and for the fitted options. The ECU socket for this relevant diagram is a 24 pin Brown using the pin A7 as you say - but remember this diagram is specifically for the lighting aspects.

Here is another diagram for comparison of the Driver's Electric Seat - here you can see the other connections on the unit, but the pin assignments are labelled differently, with different connections because I had to specify these to get this diagram up.

The others shown here are a 24 Pin Grey and 24 pin Black socket. They control the electric seat functionality for passenger and driver. They may also connect the control and power for the massaging function (for the full leather seats only) and the heated seats, plus of course the AFIL (Lane Wandering) system chair vibrators (again if fitted as an option). Those components have different wiring diagrams too.
X1REF Seal Lamp Wiring B.PNG
6338 ECU Showing Electric Seat Connections
So basically regarding the rear lighting, there will be the battery + supply, common earth and then the CAN network also switching these on and off and controlling them.

Unfortunately the PIN assignments are not always the same as options change on the vehicles and there isn't one complete diagram showing everything with every option - only the component parts. :-D

I would go and have a look at mine, but the car is loaded up with parts to assemble a 3 seater garden bench on Saturday, so all the seats are folded down! :-D

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Thanks, the information is very useful. There are three connectors on seat ECU and only one is brown. I will have a look these days at a friend C5 but his car has more options (massaging and Lane Wandering) and how you said, it's possible to have a different PIN assignments.
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I changed the under seat bulbs in mine for some coloured LEDS to match the other ones, and I remember that the lights were all tightly clipped up there - so not very easy to see the wiring unfortunately - and most of the components are in the seat itself! Number 8 is the seat ECU.
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Today I removed the seat to have access to ecu and I finally extracted it. I solder a wire from Ecu pin A7 for supply + and for negative from pin B1. B1 and C1 are the negative for seat ecu.
I have tested with a w5w bulb and It's working! =D>
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Excellent!

I've always wanted to look inside of the under seat ECU so thanks for supplying pics.

I've wanted to replace the relays on the board with MOSFETs too as the clicking is annoying when moving the seats.
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xf1ref wrote: 06 Jul 2018, 12:15 Today I removed the seat to have access to ecu and I finally extracted it. I solder a wire from Ecu pin A7 for supply + and for negative from pin B1. B1 and C1 are the negative for seat ecu.
I have tested with a w5w bulb and It's working! =D>
Never thought of doing that way, I piggy backed my LEDs from the front footwell lights, running the cables under the carpet, this is a much better method, I will be copying this method the next time I have my seats out.!!
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