Is it worth getting a car with heat?

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Originally Posted by tamanaco

Dave,

Can you provide more details on what is required to install the heating pad in the BRB seat? Any special tools required? I've got one and thinking about heated seat.

Thanks in advance for your feebback.

tamanaco,

The seat bottom is a snap. Take the cushion out. Remove the staples at the rear of the seat and push the pad in with you hand to make sure it lays flat under the foam. Replace with new staples.

The back is a bit tougher. The leather is glued in place for about 3" along the bottom. I was able to loosen a part of the glued area with a very flat fish filleting knife by carefully working between the glue and the fiberglass molded seat - this took longer than everything else combined. I created a hole big enough to get my hand and arm into the seat back behind the foam. Unfortunately, unless you are double jointed, you then have to remove the seats from the car to be able to insert the pad into the seat back and put it in place and get it laying flat under the foam pad. Once that is done, reglue the area you loosened with Gorilla Glue.

On each seat, drill a hole in the bottom of the seat at the angle made betwwn the bottom and back through the fiberglass and another low down through the rear bulkhead to run the wires to the controller and to the battery in the trunk.

I drilled the holes for the controllers through the rear bulkhead a couple of inches to each side of the battery cutoff switch.

Set the seats back in the car and run the wiring through the holes to the trunk. Install the controllers in their holes. Bolt the seat back down. Hook up to the battery. You are done.

I have been thinking about how to rewire it so that when I turn the car off the seats won't continue to warm the car and drain the battery, if I forget to turn the battery kill switch off. I just know that I will forget sooner or later, if I don't do that, but it's too cold to work on the car for a while yet.

Not a bad job at all. The instruction sheets that came with the seat heaters were pretty well done.



Hope this helps!

Cheers!
Dave