Adding Heated Seats, Suggestions on wiring Options

[Mowog4]

I am looking for input on wiring a pair of heated seats. They draw about 5 amps each. Any suggestions on where I should run the power from.

[jim_hoyland]

I installed heated seats about 10 years ago; works great !

I wired mine to the rear window defrost circuit and used a dash switch to turn the circuit on.

1. Dash; old fog light switch with switched power source; run the other lead to the front of the relay board. I ran mine down the tunnel , then behind the seat and through a hole just in front of the relay board.
2. Seat: Two wires; one is a ground, the other wire goes up to the front of the relay board next to the wire from the dash.

3. In the front of the relay board are two posts and a position holder ( like the fuel tank sender ). Those two posst connect to the rear window defrost relay-the first relay from the front.
4. The wire from the dash goes on one of those posts. It is the trigger wire ( aka 85) for the relay.
5. The other post is the relays 87 or 12v output.

6. Its that simple. Relay already has power and is wired for a similar application. You are just going to use it for seat heaters instead of the heated window

7. And, my voltmeter doesn't even move when the heaters are on- and I have my voltmeter wired directly to the battery.

8. I was lucky in that I found a rear window defrost connector that fits directly onto the two posts.

Good luck, and enjoy ! I use mine almost every day in the am or if I have a ore back... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)