Hello perhaps someone has experience of this:

2016 Continental GT V8S, passenger seat massage function only works for a few seconds not the 10 mins as specified. Starts at the bottom and rolls up to shoulder level then stops. I think there are 3 air filled bladders, seems to do one cycle then stops. Any one else who has had this or a similar issue….

thanks

 

did you figure this out? i have the same issue.

 

I also have exactly the same issue. Anyone have a solution or cause please

 

Hi, I have a 2017 GTS , seat massage function does 1 cycle & stops on both seats , did anyone resolve this issue?

 

I have the same problem with the passenger seat in my 2017 GT V8

 

I decided to pull my passenger seat apart (removed the back panel) for a bit of diagnosis. It turns out there are 5 massage bladders and 6 solenoids which direct air to them. On my car it appeared that the top bladder had a puncture (I could hear a faint hiss from the front top before the system stopped). The system seems to work by each solenoid in turn inflating its bladder, and when it reaches a set pressure it switches to the next solenoid. With a punctured bladder it will not reach the pressure and the system stops. As a trial, I clamped the hose to the top bladder (so the solenoid sees an increase in pressure even though the bladder doesn’t inflate) and it worked. My passenger seat now has a massage function with the lower 4 bladders only, but it works fine.
I suppose the correct solution is to repair the punctured bladder, but in my case my wife isn’t very tall and 4 bladders is enough.

 

For sake of knowing, did you see what actually caused the puncture? Sharp pieces or something constricting when it moved to wear it out and poke it related to a design flaw?

 

I didn’t get as far as taking the front cover off the seat to check the bags. I just clamped the pipe at the back of the seat to see if that would fix the problem and it did.

 

In order to determine why the passenger seat massage was only working for several seconds, I remove the back panel to the seat and then serially blocked off each of the several rubber hoses going to the seat bladders. Unfortunately, that was of no benefit in the problem still existed. Listening carefully, identified a hissing sound near the bottom of the lower control unit in the seat back which sends air pressure to the bladders. Then, using soapy leak detector (with a towel under it so as not to interfere with the electrics), I finally found the leak. Unfortunately, the leak was not in any of the rubber hosing or the rubber hose connections to the control unit. Instead, the leak was in the black right angle arm that extends below the control unit. (The rubber hose attaches to this part.) It appears that that black right angle arm is part of the control unit. I did not see any way to detach it from the control unit and I did not want to force anything and cause further harm. I'm going to look into a new control unit.