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Alright this is purely hypothetical and I have no idea if its possible...but.... my friend has a junked '91 Saab 900 turbo hatch sittin in his garage. he bought it to fix but he instead bought a dead '90 900T convertible and is using the other car's motor, etc to rebuild it. Well, the hatch has heated seats and mirrors and I was just thinking, if we removed the front seat covers would it be possible to transplant the heated element and wiring, etc. from a car like that with heated seats into ours? I mean the saab's heating system is nothing more than a wire that heats up underneath the fabric. And when i was looking at my sedan's fuses, there is a blank spot for heated seats. Its just a theory though. Same thing with heated mirrors, why not just take the heating elements, etc from a car with heated mirros and tranplant them into our mirrors. Again, just a theory. It would probably take someone with electrical and engineering knowledge. Probably useless for those of you in the warmer climes but over here in new england it gets damn chilly and Id love to have my A$$ heated when the temp drops in the winter.

 
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Just a thought: Why go through all that trouble? This Canadian dealer could sell you the mirrors off a Civic and the seats off an Accord.

Edit: This is them--->Centre Honda
354 Richmond Street East, Toronto, Ontario M5A 1P71
Tel: (416) 364-1116 Fax: (416) 364-8532

 
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grey is thinkin about doing a diy for mirrors check with him for some stuff!!

 
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I believe the heated mirrors would work on our cars with no problems. Somebody told me, or I read here a long time ago, that they drew power from the existing wires for the power mirrors.

 
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why not just get a heat pad like they use for pets and put it in ur seats and wire them to a switch? Thats what i plan on doing with my sparcos

 
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that does sound like a back a$$wards idea, but that is a pretty good theory. Those heat pads are like the same set up you see if you tear into a seat with a heater. Its this wire that goes back and forth across the seat a few times and heats up. if you could just install that wire under the upholstery and wire it up, youd be all set. On a side note, i have no responsibility if your car goes up in flames. [IMG]i/expressions/demon.gif[/IMG]

 
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Yep. I am. Check out this thread: DIY Idea: Turn Signal Mirrors I don't know about the heating element on the mirrors since it's probably stuck on there good, but the heated seat stuff might be easily transplantable. For heated mirrors I would get OEM parts for everything except the mirror. That is unless you have a sedan. If you have a sedan, then just order the heated mirrors. If it's a coupe, then get the OEM power window/heated mirror switch and the wire harness for the heated mirrors. Then just stick on a heating element. I don't exactly know how this works, but I think it heats up like a resistor heats up when current flows through it.