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Evidence suggests your seat has a heating element installed on it. Since your Bronco doesn’t have mid package the rest of the system isn’t there so it’s useless. I’d chalk it up to an assembly line error.
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Maybe in order to push out more orders Ford just used the harness for the heated seats regardless if the vehicle was heated seat capable. Or maybe it is truly an assembly line error. Anyway, If the seat doesn’t have the heater element the connector is useless. Of course, that is if the wire harness is for heated seats.
Bingo. They limit the amount of harnesses they have to save cost and time and chance of errors.
 

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If there is ambient light plugs underneath it then why didn't they put lights under there on the high trim levels? And thr Bronco doesn't share a harness with anything else so it doesn't make sense that it would have plugs. I'd do this mod if all I need is a couple new lights and a forscan flash lol.
Dude. I don’t know. Just remembered there was a post about it.
 

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Maybe a Ejection seat option?
 

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This is common with mass-produced vehicles, where a harness is designed and used for multiple trims to cut down on variants, costs, and possible issues with confusion during production. Some manufacturers just tuck the unused connectors away, some cap them, and some wrap them up into the harness if unused, so there aren't 2 dozen types of harnesses out there for the Bronco.

This is essentially where OEM+ comes in, with using a company's parts bin to upgrade with factory stuff.
 

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This is common with mass-produced vehicles, where a harness is designed and used for multiple trims to cut down on variants, costs, and possible issues with confusion during production. Some manufacturers just tuck the unused connectors away, some cap them, and some wrap them up into the harness if unused, so there aren't 2 dozen types of harnesses out there for the Bronco.

This is essentially where OEM+ comes in, with using a company's parts bin to upgrade with factory stuff.
💯 this. Common practice back to the 70s.
 

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So could this be used in conjunction with other OEM parts, to install a factory heated seat set up, if switching to Katzkin's?
 

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You'd need the seat(s), a new HVAC control panel with the proper seat heater buttons, and time to install and plug in. Yank the negative battery cable before you start, you might get lucky with it being plug-and-play where it just works, or you might need to code them in Forscan
 

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You'd need the seat(s), a new HVAC control panel with the proper seat heater buttons, and time to install and plug in. Yank the negative battery cable before you start, you might get lucky with it being plug-and-play where it just works, or you might need to code them in Forscan
You would only need the actual heating elements in the seats, not the whole seat.
 

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Repurpose the plug by adding ambient lighting and add switch behind dash to where it would plug in. Reflash forscan? To activate…
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