Thread: Adding a heated seat

This weekend I decided to see if a heated seat would work in my car. The junkyard had a nice seat they said I could have for $25 I was eager to give this a try since i couldn't find a thread on here about it and i had no clue if it would work. My car is a 97, donor car is a 99. I'm not sure which years this will work on. Sorry no pics

Things needed:
Heated seat obviously (This one had power lumbar also)
The switch and little cover plate
Console harness out of the car with the heated seat
A rather large torx bit (T50) and a 3/8 ratchet.

First thing to do is pop up the center console. The shifter will need to be in N or D. Take it completely off so you have more room. Make sure your parking brake is engaged so your car doesn't start rolling.

Pop off the connector on the left side of the conosle and then disconnect all the other connections. They include the 12v adapter, shifter light and a few others. Don't break the connector because you need them!

Next is to slide the seat far enough forward to get to the bolts that hold the seat in. There is one on each side of the track. Then disconnect the harness under the seat and rock it forward to get the "hooks" out of the floorpan and take the seat out making sure not to scratch up your center console or anything else.

After you've got everything of your donor car...or if you bought everything seperate do the same procedure to the car the seat is going into.

After your seat and console harness is out put the new one in and do everything in reverse order.

Finally enjoy your warm butt!!

I would assume this would work with the passenger side seat if you can manage to find a passenger heated seat. You would need the harness out of that car also since the console harnesses are only wired for the options you have. EX if you don't have heated seats like me there won't be any wiring for them at all in the conosle..same applies for passenger heated seat..if the car didn't come with it then it wont have a connector in the console for it...but it more than likely is in the main harness like mine was.