After market heated seats?

How much should it cost for heated seat install? First place I asked that installed my remote start and under rail lights quoted me 500.00. Also are there different quality of systems to consider for this application?

 

Tagging. I’m also curious.

 

Me three...

 

I’m installing mine tomorrow.
I found them as cheap as $55 for the front pair, but I chose more expensive because I wanted variable heat with one switch instead of duals.

 

The labor cost is taking the seats out of the truck, then removing the OEM seat covers including pulling out the existing hog rings, sticking on the seat warmers, putting in new rings or ties and putting it all back. Might as well install leather seats since it’s all apart.

Then the center console needs to be taken apart to tunnel the wiring and install switches which are fuse-tapped inside the fuse box by the left foot-well.

Did it myself a couple of months ago, it’s a lot of pulling and tucking putting the covers back on. Buy long and tall warmers that cover a large portion of the seat and back.

 

I already have factory leather in it. I watched a Youtube video on it and it looks pretty involved. I have a message into my sales guy at the dealership as this dealer doesn't do aftermarket heated seat installs. He has a lot of connections in the secondary market installers and I am waiting to hear back from him. Was surprised to find out that "Limited" trim package on the Pro's didn't include the heated seats and BSM. I personally don't really care that much but wife moans about it a lot. I may end up figuring the remote start will compensate for warming up the truck enough to forego the heated seats. First world issue no doubt.

 

Make sure the installer has had their fair share of installing leather seats because your factory seats have already been stretched. They need to be carefully removed as it requires pulling them away to undo the clips, and clipped back after the warmers without wrinkles, creases etc; which may require a steamer (what I used when I installed my Katzkins), and experienced tucking of the foam.

 

I was having dealer swap my SR5 factory cloth to leather upon purchase, so I said what the hell let’s add front heated seats. I paid $1600 total for the leather + heated front seats. It has low and high setting, and they did a really clean install of the buttons just behind my cup holders, in front of the center console.

 

I guess if I lived in the arctic or farther up north it might be worth it. Paying 500.00 for approximately 50.00 worth of hardware installed is hard for me to palate and spending that amount of time myself just doesn't interest me. Too motivationally impaired at this time of my life. From the way it sounds I will most likely leave them as is and get a passenger side 12 volt plug in heated seat pad that they advertise if need be. I've never owned a car or truck for myself that has had heated seats and don't see that changing for now. I'd rather invest those funds for BSM if that was a practical option. Oh well, life is rough on the frontier lol.

 

Yeah to be honest I don’t need them, I would prefer cooled seats. But my F150 had heated seats and the wife would have beheaded me if I didn’t Add it.

 

I'm in the process of getting Sequoia seats into mine, it has heat and leather and power. Someone has done it before and he said everything bolts right up and plug right in.

 

i wanted to throw these underneath some Clazzio's but im afraid of burning the synthetic leather

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