Heated seats

[pb450]

I see anumber of people have fitted heated seats, plenty of kits available it seems.
My questions are, where do you take the power feed from and where do people locate the switches?

[mk1fan]

I believe they were an option on the Griefs / Chimps so you may find a spare / allocated slot on your fuseboard.

There is definately one on the Tam/T350/Sag fuseboard as I'll be connecting into it.

As for the seats in the Ss, I will add a new circuit off the fuseboard feed and locate the fuses etc. next to the existing board.

[Paulprior]

I appear to have heated seats, but no idea how to turn them on, any ideas?
Paul

[JonathanT]

When mine were working on my '99 Chim, I used a round black button (like the boot release and dash lights) on the RHS of the steering column (across from the intermittent wipe knob).

Edited by JonathanT on Tuesday 26th July 13:33

[RichB]

Paulprior said:

I appear to have heated seats, but no idea how to turn them on, any ideas?
Paul

They were fitted to my '99 Griff and are operated by depressing one of the knurled heater knobs although I can't remember which one at the moment.

[oily mist]

Hi Peter, I fitted retro heaters in my '98 Chim. I used the carbon fibre mat type as these can be trimmed to fit into the seat. I had to chop an extra connector into the loom supplied with the kit so the seats can be removed without having to unpick the wiring where it's linked onto the car.
For power I picked up under the centre console where there was a couple of spare links in the Land Rover harness (white and pink trace I think). There was a space for a relay under the dash to make the circuit live with ignition on. For switches, I made up a small add-on panel to fit below the radio as I didn't want to cut into the original. The alternative would have been to pop them on the side of the centre console. To my mind it's a good mod and makes for comfortable open top driving when it's cold out.

[RichB]

oily mist said:

... To my mind it's a good mod and makes for comfortable open top driving when it's cold out.

Indeed, that was my thinking when I spec'd them as an option. Nice cold crisp day with the top down is nice driving

[pb450]

Thanks for all the feedback. Does anyone have a recommendation for a specific kit please?

Edited by pb450 on Tuesday 13th September 16:30