Megan loves her 4Runner, but she has expressed interest in a new car primarily because she wanted seat heaters. I received an email from Rock Auto back at the beginning of December advertising a seat heater kit for ~$70 a seat. I got to digging around the interwebs and found the same kit for $54.99 for both seats!!! I snagged them off ebay and  they arrived shortly. I ended up sneaking them in on a weekend that she worked both Saturday and Sunday (12 hour shifts) and I stayed up all night Saturday with her car torn apart while she slept.

Getting the heating pads in the seats was definitely the hardest part. It required peeling the seat covers off and the more elaborate the upholstery is, the more hog rings there are holding seams to anchors in the foam. I ended up removing a lot of those hog rings, but the fabric needed to be anchored to the foam, so I used zip ties since they went through the heating pad and I didn't want to use metal hog rings. Once I got the seats reassembled, I pulled the console and ran wiring. I joined the two grounds together and grounded it to the parking brake bracket. The two hot leads were joined together and lengthened with one larger gauge wire. I used a piggy back fuse tap and found an open accessory fuse location. This made wiring a breeze. That night I threw the seats back in and tucked the switches up out of sight. On Christmas eve, I drilled the switch holes and pulled them through.

All in all, it cost $55 for the kit, $5 for the fuse tap at Autozone and about 5 hours of my time. Megan (and her butt!) are happy! 

Maybe I need these for the new Audi,  it did not come with heaters

Love my seat heaters and won't buy another car without them. Definitely warm up faster than the heat in the car making it more tolerable in this cold weather.


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It's true! My butt was warm before the engine was!

I replaced some heater pads in routan vans with out removing the seat,  I was able to loosen the cover and slide them in,  that was for the lower half, on the vw seats you have to take more trim loose and remove the seat.  I've used zip ties in place of hog rings before but I do own a pair of hog ring pliers that get used about ever two or three years

I bet these would be good for a bus too.

They said 10amps a seat. I did a test and have them both soldered to a larger gauge wire which runs to a single 10 amp fuse and it hasn't blown yet with both of them working, so I'd say its safely below 5amps per seat.


http://www.amazon.com/Wild-us-Universal-Carbon-Fiber-Heater/dp/B00EZKVPOQ/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1420740597&sr=8-4&keywords=carbon+fiber+seat+heater

I got a set of these for the ghia.
Haven't installed them yet.
KC

You guys are gonna run out of cold weather to enjoy them!