I got a set of leather seats from the salvage yard for cheep, but I dont have the same connector. Does anyone know if it is possible to hard wire the seat heaters?

 

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

Heated seats?? In one of our trucks?? Come onnnnnnn!

 

Where have you been? They are an option for 04 & 05. My butt gets cold man!

 

My buddy's 01.5 has heated seats, wish I had 'em. Sorry I can't help with the wiring problem. Check with an electrician?

 

I would think that anything electrical like that could be hardwired to work. Cut plug off, butt splice w/connectors and shrink, run to switches, to fuse, to batt. Or better yet you might put in a control relay under the hood and switch that coil instead. Would be less power through your switches.

 

I have the seat heaters in mine. I am not too fond of them unless it is reeeeaaaaally cold, like below zero, but my wife loves them. I am hot natured and she is cold natured. Sorry off subject. Can you get a hold of the factory switches or do you have other ideas?

 

heated seats are definitely not needed in suth Texas but sure are nice if you live up north....it gets COLD in South Dakota....

OldSmokey, find a factory service manual. If you cant find one check out the library or a local technical school library.

 

Which would probably be true if I lived in SOUTH Texas. The South Plains are in the Panhandle of Texas. No, not as cold as the Dakotas, but it gets below zero. And with the wind we have wind chills in the -20's and -30's. So, seat heaters can be a nice luxury item from time to time. Then again it also gets in the 80's in the winter, so you realy never know what it will be like.

 

The seats in my MB were quite dismal, so one of the things I did was install seat heaters to the seat itself. I bought a kit for a Subaru on eBay, enough to do all four seats but I figured mine was enough. Odds are once I get the Ram it'll get a couple heated seats as well, maybe even some memory foam and a little lumbar thingy. Hey, if you gotta sit for a while you may just as well be comfortable. Anyways, yes they are just 12V. Quite often they are relayed in but they don't really pull all that much juice. I don't recall off hand but I'm thinking if it has both back and seat it'd be about 10amps/seat in high. I did a little speal on my site, you can find it here; www.diy.1baddsm.com

 

Can you have cloth heated seats or only leather heated seats?

 

Cloth seats can be heated safely AFAIK, I believe they normally don't offer it since leather is an upgrade so you have to have the most expensive version to upgrade it. I believe most leather seats have a cloth backing on them so it isn't to hot.

 

So if you have pigskin leather seats with seatwarmers, does it make the truck smell like bacon when you turn on the warmers?

 

Not hot enough to fry bacon..barely warm enough to warm buns

 

I just read a couple of weeks ago that a Paraplagesic is sueing D/C because he sustained 3rd degree burns on his legs. He could feel the heat. Honest, I'm not making this up.