I was really hoping that I would have found some cooked plastics under the passenger seat, but everything looks fine. Now I need to check her sweater for singeing.
Of course passenger seats see a lot less occupancy, but I was surprised at the seat filter discoloration. I was expecting to find a almost new filter and instead I found enough to be able to change the color by cleaning. While I am thinking of it, I probably should swap seat filters... or I guess I could cough up the $15 for a new filter on amazon (they are Motorcraft FS100 filters it seems). I'm so surprised with the filter condition as the seat looks perfectly new. No lard a** has been sitting in that chair for 100% of the miles. Conversely, the drivers seat totally confirms that a Fat Bastard has been behind the wheel of this beast for its entire life.
Wife is one of those lighter models and I'm guessing previous owners passenger was of normal/light weight too as it seems the seat was occupied quite a bit (filter condition). I was hoping a burned up connector may rule out the thought of crushed passageways (other threads suggest) restricting flow and overheating the motor causing increased current draw.
Since I need to go back under the drivers seat to replace the 15amp fuse with a 10, and evidently add another fuse to the ground side (I did buy two fuse holders - Sagan's 'Contact' taught me to always buy two, and yes, I have a spare M sitting in my spare house's garage as we speak - shhh! don't tell the wife
or the spare wife, please), I think I may whip up a current monitor with a raspberry pi and let that grab some numbers for a while. It would be interesting to see how that Peltier plate warms up - betting huge spikes at first when you put it on position 3 from freezing cold base temps. I'll do this right after I get the oil to stop leaking out of all these damn BMWs.