Originally Posted by 909

Basically what I did with Adams , or my ex - RSX seats was wire them via a cigarette lighter plug for simplicity. Push in - voila, .. heat. Pull out, no heat.

My whole intention was that I knew I was going to upgrade, or change to a different style seat so the heated option was wired to go into another vehicle with as little effort as possible. I believe what Adam did eventually hard wired the seats to a lighted switch, you'd have to ask him for more details.

It's extremly easy to hook up the seat heaters. I'll try to keep it as simple as possible so as not to cause any confusion. If you need more details, feel free to ask me to elaborate. Bear in mind this is all off memory, so if there are any inconsistancies let me know.

On the underside of the seat you will find 3 plugs.

One is yellow and leads to the Side SRS on the side bolster. Mark it and leave it alone.

Two plugs should remain.

One goes to the bum heater, the other goes to the lower back heater.

On each plug there will be two wires. One is pos, one is neg.

If you group wires, make sure they have similar shielding.

I simply cut the plug, and exposed the bare wire.

Added a length of wire. You can solder if you you have an iron. Or you can buy those crimp on ones from Canadian Tire. In either case, the purpose is just to add a length of wire.

What wire to buy? Wire is wire... and at 12V it shouldn't matter too much as long as its the same or slightly larger than the stock wire.

Tap it to a 12V source. If you pull on your 12V Acc jack panel there is a perfect spot. Just splice the stock connection, and tap there.

To splice, just carefully remove the wire shielding, exposing the bare wire. Take your new wire and wrap it around the exposed stock wiring. Seal the connection with electrical tape. Should end up with a "y" looking connection.

You can add a Switch anywhere along the negative side of the line (from the seat to the neg @ power source).

Originally Posted by Karumba

I can tell you straight up Landin that Freddy .. was going to say helped, but well I'm a noob and he did most of the work - which I still need to hit me back on..

In any event, mine are currently wired to switches running off the cigarette lighter. They work - though an "issue" I'm having is thinking about their usefulness now. The cig lighter doesn't get power unless the key is in the ON position - unlike say my fogs which are wired off the ignition coil. If I ever get around to it I'll perhaps look in on the EL wiring and/or if its available to wire off the coil moreso. I want my remotely started car to have nice toasty warm seats for me too

Here's a quoted directions that 909 helped out with initially -


True, they aren't 2005 seats - but I only imagine them to be the same

Originally Posted by grenloch101056

once a car is remote started, anything that operates with the key in the on position will operate as well as long as the starter is hooked up properly