pkoule

Brrrrrrr.. Winter finally got to NYC, and of all the things I miss about the Saab, the heated seats are foremost in my mind.

Saab and Volvo equipped their cars with heaters (sort of like heating pads or electric blannkets, only small and 12 volt) in the driver and passenger seat and seatback.
Saab included a pressure sensor, thermostat to prevent the heater activating for an empty seat and prevent the grid overheating (ouch). In 10 years with the Saab (12 years with the Volvo) the heating elements never missed a beat. And they sure warmed my (as)soul on winter mornings.

Has anybody thought to mod thenScion seats to add this feature?

I'll look into fitting these before the next freeze.

johnnyicesae

i'm sure this has been done in many of the seats redone in leather (katzkin)

LowProMofo

Yeah you can buy the seat heaters from autoleathers.com

totallyboardz

I'm thinking of buying two sets of these for each of my front seats.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33701

Anyone have any experience installing seat heaters like this? Any tutorials on removing the stock seat covers, or is this something I should leave up to an upholstery shop?

Yeah, I know it's not exactly the time for 'em but I'm modding everything else on my car so why not. I'm stripping the interior to dynamat everything and run wiring next week so it would be a good time to mess with the seats if it's something that I should be able to do at home.

redneck69

how much dynamat are you thinkin its gonna take to do yer ride>?

lightshow

I've seen this done with the standard seat.pretty Quick

matt_a

For those of you who said you've done this: Did you do it to the stock cloth seats? If so, why? As I have posted in another thread about this same topic, I had heated (leather)seats in my last vehicle. They were okay, but I didn't love them. When it was freezing cold outside, and you would first get in, you were sitting down on a freezing cold seat. It would take a minute or so for the heater elements to start warming the seat up. Cloth seats don't have that problem. I don't think they are cold even when it's cold out. Just my opinion, but that's what I've noticed.

totallyboardz

My Avalanche has heated leather seats. I just try to remember to go out and switch them on before I'm ready to go on those cold mornings.

I think I may take a chance with these heaters and do the front seats. Going to mount the switches in my boomerang armrest.


I bought 100sqft of sound deadener (going to do everything from the windows down for now. I ended up getting fat mat instead of dynamat, but from what I've heard and seen, it is pretty comparable (an a lot cheaper). Going to remove the rear wiper (entire motor assembly) and dynamat back there too.

Hopefully that should be enough.

matt_a

Mine was a Silverado. I couldn't hit the switch ahead of time, because I park in my garage and I can't let the vehicle run while it's in there (fumes). If I ran it without the engine on, I'm afraid it would have been hard on the battery. Besides, it was mostly a problem on really cold days when I would get off work and I was getting in my truck to drive home. No way to turn it on early even if I had wanted to.
On a side note, have you noticed how nice the leather is in the Chevy trucks? I always thought it was nice and soft, but I didn't realize how nice until we started looking at other cars. The leather interiors of some brands feels almost like plastic. Props to GM on their choice of leather.