Custom Heated Seat questions...?????

[DanGillan]

well, Rob and I are in the process or re-upholstering my interior.... he installed the heating elements from some non sports into my new sport seats... the divers side is done now, and in my car, I have never had heated seats hooked up, and dont have any switches or wiring for them. my question is, what would be needed to do to hook these up? i know ill need switches, but is there existing wiring under the dash for plug and play hookup? any insight to the subject would be great. thanks,

Dan

[Spaz]

hmm to make it easy on yourself, i'd find the factory harness and moutn that bad boy up.

[bimmerphile]

wiring is there on about 1/2 of cars. dig around.

[DanGillan]

what wiring? from the car to the switch to the seat? cuz that's what i need, i searched, a bunch of outdated websites came up that dont work anymore, need some help

[bimmerphile]

a harness under the shit boot and one underneath the seat. Put in a fuse to connect it through, and you're golden.

[Spaz]

a harness under the shit boot and one underneath the seat. Put in a fuse to connect it through, and you're golden.

golden like a piece of toast!

[DanGillan]

that simple? so all I need are the 2 switches, and 4 wires? (2 from shif boot to switch (1 each seat) and 2 from switch to seat) is this right? thanks guys, i didnt know there was a plug under the shift boot.

[e30Matt]

[DanGillan]

that's awesome, thanks, so im guessing that #5 is one big wiring harness with all those plugs? am i right? also, does the end of it go into underneath the shift boot? is there a plug there? and where does the relay go? and what is #9? thanks guys!

[e30Matt]

that's awesome, thanks, so im guessing that #5 is one big wiring harness with all those plugs? am i right? also, does the end of it go into underneath the shift boot? is there a plug there? and where does the relay go? and what is #9? thanks guys!

#5 is indeed the full wiring harness... I'm pretty sure the plug is there for it.

Not sure where the relay goes, and #9 isn't installed on your car, so no worries.

[DanGillan]

yea, but what is it? im just curious now. thanks again,

[bimmerphile]

a harness under the shit boot and one underneath the seat. Put in a fuse to connect it through, and you're golden.

golden like a piece of toast!

golden like whoa

[Spaz]

yea, but what is it? im just curious now. thanks again,

its the retrofit kit for heated seats....so you can install heated seats on cars that didn't have it factory,


kinda like yours ;)

[e30Matt]

Is that supposed to be a cardboard box? lol...

[DanGillan]

mine did have it from the factory, well, sort of, the car had a non-sports in it, the PO bought another set of non-sports, until about a month ago, i didnt know the 2nd set was heated, so we swapped the heating elements in to my 3'rd set of seats (new sport seats) so the heating elements are factory, well, thanks for all the info!!!