Heated Seats

[adsm08]

I would desperately like to put some heaters in my truck for them cold winter mornings. Just want to make sure of one little thing first:

I never see fabric upholstered seats with heaters, only leather. I'm not sure if that's the car companies being dicks with the options or if there is an actual engineering reason for that.

So does anybody know if my upholstery will suffer ill effects from this?

 

[martin]

The bosses fancy new Hyundi has fabric seats with heaters. My friends VW also has fabric seats with heaters so it's not an engineering issue. I hate it, I'm frozen head to toe but my ass is on fire, how the hell do you turn them off?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I never see fabric upholstered seats with heaters, only leather. I'm not sure if that's the car companies being dicks with the options or if there is an actual engineering reason for that.

Leather gets ungodly cold in the winter, there is probably greater demand for them to be heated than fabric.

 

[kimcrwbr1]

Go to LMC truck they have kits for seat heaters as far as I know it dont matter what kind of material is covering them.

 

[Original_Ranger84]

yeah you can find them how ever direct bolt in seats for rangers might be hard to find with heaters and cloth. My moms old subaru and dads v dub both had/have heated seats.

I heard the newer explorers have them and they bolt in directly, but they probably have leather. If you find out I would like to know cause I want to install some buckets with heated seat in my truck.

 

[Snoranger]

I'm not sure if that's the car companies being dicks with the options.

This.

 

[Mark_88]

You can buy heating pads that strap onto the seat and cover them with seat covers...probably way less expensive even than buying used seats...I wear my long underwear and some good snow pants on cold days though...but I do spend quite a bit of time outside so it's necessary...

 

[Snoranger]

You can also buy the aftermarket heaters, take your seats apart, and install them inside the factory seat. Which is what it sounds like Adsm is talking about.

 

[scotts90ranger]

the heaters in crown vic seats are apparently removable, The guy I got my two spare turbo engines from said he works at a junk yard and grabs the seats from used cop cars and takes the warmers out of them, the controller is apparently in the seat so all you need is a power and ground.

 

[adsm08]

Ok, thanks guys.

The LMC kits were the ones I was gonna get, I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to leave a scorch mark or something on my seats, cover kits are expensive. I might even go as far as the put them all around in the B2 as well.

And I know how bad leather gets in the winter. That was on my list of reasons for passing it up when my dad was going to give me his 97 F-150, it had leather seats and no heaters.