Pontiac Repair: Buick Regal heated seats, hog ring, gauge wires

Question
1998 Regal GS 3800 Supercharged. Passenger's heated seat works fine. Relays from both seats work in passenger's seat. Neither works in driver's seat (doesn't click on & off). Checked continuity on green factory plug for driver's seat back - Okay. Checked continuity on relay plug (blk & red wires) on both seats. Ok for passenger's, not for driver's. From what I read on this site, this shows broken wire on driver's seat.

On driver's seat bottom - 2 sets of wires. Have continuity on one side (meter connected to yellow & black heavy gauge wires). Not on the other side (Y & b wires).

2 blue & 2 gray wires go into metal, button-like connector. From yellow to end of blue wire (where it enters metal connector), I have continuity. Same for gray to black wire. Do NOT have continuity through metal connector from blue to gray wire. Can I bypass metal connector & directly connect blue & gray? If so, should I do it for both sets of seat bottom wires (both blue and both gray)? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Glad to make donation if site accepts them.

Answer
Hi Chris;

No you can't by pass the heater. The hearters on those older cars are part of the seat cover. So your going to have to replace the seat cover for the one that has an open ckt. The seat back has a temp sesnor in int as well as the heater it's self. and the seat cushion just has a heater no sensor. If there is an open in the heater element which happens all the time you have to replace the whole seat cushion cover. On these older ones too the seat covers are "hog ringed" onto the seat frame. You need a special tool to re attach the cover to the frame. a hog ring is a metal looped retainer that grabs both the seat cover and the frame.
Good luck :)