Heated Seats :P

SON240sx Automotive
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While I was freezing my ass off while the car warmed up, I got a great idea.

My friend has an extra pair of seats from an old Volvo, which are heated. I was thinking I take the flexible heating pad out of them, and mount them in my S13 leathers, and connect the 12v and ground to the cigarette light adapter under the center console, and then mount the switch nearby.

Wouldn’t that be awesome? It seems to work out so well…in theory.

I’ve never done any custom work, but this seems like a good place to start. I looked at my seat, and I don’t really know how I can get access to the space right under the leather below the ass area and the lower back without tearing it up, or finding a well hidden zipper…lol

Has anyone attempted this before? If yes, any advice?

Thanks for your responses.

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good idea, the only person I can think of that has knowledgeable skill would be DirtyDevvo. Maybe he will see this and chime to give you some pointer.

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I would use the proper switches and maybe a relay or two.

but yeah you’ve got it, the hardest part will be tearing down 2 seats and assembling 1

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i beleive these seat have clips all around edges on the leather to hold it on. If you have never done work on the car before, i wouldn’t attempt this unless your ready for a screw up. Its not as easy as a zipper or Velcro.

gl

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dont do this without a relay

and try to pick a better source of 12v than the cig lighter

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make sure the heater wires are all wrapped up though, dont want yoru seats catching on fire now haha

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Damn you’re going to have a hot seat!

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buy a seat cover , i think those obusform ones are available for like 50 bucks or something and they plug into the cig lighter

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Heated seats kills your sperm count, so thats either a good thing or a bad thing for you. Just be aware :slight_smile:

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lol, I use my heated seats all the time…

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I have some in my volvo lol… do what you like, but remember my advice, you’re still confused as to what you want your 240 to be like… you’re running in every direction, establish what you really want your car to be lol… you want luxury, speed, affordable, reliable, kind of scary :stuck_out_tongue: But good luck with this project and uhm… please don’t catch on fire :S

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Didn’t Ted do something like this to his ultra modded two tone coupe?

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Remove the seat from the car, take off the lever and side panel with a philips. There should be 2x 12mm bolts on both sides for the bottom cusion. After its removed you’ll see that the cover is held by metal hog rings to the frame. Use wire cutters and grab the hog ring and twist clockwise and it should come off pretty smooth. Cutting them one by one will take 3x longer.

As for the backrest i believe there are zippers on the back(ive never had S13 leathers just cloth) There may be hogrings holding the bottom of the seat cover at the very bottom. When you attempt to pull the cover off i think there will be listings in the middle section of the seat that will prevent you from pulling it off. Again there will be more hog rings. These listings are in place to pull the material into the seat giving it shape so it does not look like a cheap seat cover. Repeat the steps backwards to re-re and use some spray glue from CT to lay down the seat warmer. Hog rings and the pliers to install them are at Princess auto. GL

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CT has heated massaging pads on sale right now iirc. makes life much easier haha

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do your research on the seat in question first, make sure your not puttin 12v to something that only takes 4,5 or 6v and if you hard wire it like that, gaurinteed you will have 3rd degree heated seats

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the ghetto cheap way…The way I would do it.lol
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thi is not uncommon, for years people bought heated seat conversaios and had car audio store install them. more out east though

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if u need a switch to control the setting on the heated seat, a common car at the junk yard is 95’s golf 4 door, every golf at the year i have seen a heated seat switch

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Also most subarus since 2000

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Heated seats is VERY simple.

Pick up a kit online for ~ $75 a seat and two nice 12V relays. Also grab a suitable fuse if the kit you buy doesn’t come with one.

Pull off the seat fabric, lay down the heating element. Place the switch, wire the relays to 12V… somewhere close to the battery and not already fused.

Wire up… turn on… and enjoy that sperm count killing goodness!

I did this to my ranger a couple years ago… took about 3 hours total.

I can’t remember the site I bought the kit from but it was a nice unit…