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Old Oct 22, 2012 | 04:30 PM
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There is an easyish way of making them plug and play, way to hard to describe online tho, but basically gotta take the harness outta the donor car and
Reinstall in new car, in cloves pulling pins and re pinning on new car
lol you know all about that now eh chris? lolol!
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Old Oct 22, 2012 | 08:13 PM
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Lol u know it, u get those working yet?
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Old Oct 22, 2012 | 09:40 PM
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Gonna Do that re pin thing for the seats tomorrow, lol,

But yesterday we Got The radio deck in and working( I got that mess sorted out haha!!), I love the flip out screen! and we got the Aux in workin as well.
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Old Oct 23, 2012 | 12:07 AM
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i forgot how hard it is to take the trim pieces off. i feel like they are gonna break.

i was wiped out when i got home so ill do them tomorrow
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Old Oct 23, 2012 | 10:19 AM
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haha^ yeah they feel like they're gonna break...but the wont lol
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Old Oct 23, 2012 | 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by StevoElSupremo
haha^ yeah they feel like they're gonna break...but the wont lol
they may its only -15 right now
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Old Oct 24, 2012 | 11:33 PM
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just ripped them off. doesnt look like there are harness ends back there, but i couldnt tell for sure cause they all ran behind the hvac. if i took the HVAC out i could definitely tell
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Old Oct 25, 2012 | 09:31 PM
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They pop so loud. I think I break them everytime lol
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Old Oct 25, 2012 | 10:06 PM
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When I swapped my heated leather into a 2010 ss/tc and swapped the tc seats into my 08 2.4 the ss/tc didnt have the harness for the heaters. Everything swapped over otherwise. But I believe he had to add an aftermarket harness to get the seats working. So yes the harness would be added. We didnt check behind the radio/dash but the plugs under the seats were not there.
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Old Oct 28, 2012 | 04:24 PM
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Should have just got a car with heated seats in the first place. Avoid all the bullshit involved with doing it after the fact. Thats what I did :P
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Old Oct 28, 2012 | 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by 2.2balt
Should have just got a car with heated seats in the first place. Avoid all the bullshit involved with doing it after the fact. Thats what I did :P
The factory heated leather seats are garbage in the cobalts! I had them and I never regret swapping to SS/TC seats! Single best mod I ever did!
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Old Oct 28, 2012 | 08:34 PM
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Id rather have a heated shifter knob. On some nights after work my gear shift knob gets COLD in the winter.
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Old Oct 28, 2012 | 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by insylem
Id rather have a heated shifter knob. On some nights after work my gear shift knob gets COLD in the winter.

I got these things called leather gloves^
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Old Oct 29, 2012 | 12:43 AM
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Originally Posted by StevoElSupremo
I got these things called leather gloves^
X2!!!!!! I have TWM short throw with Big Type R stainless knob. Gets stupid cold at like 5 degrees let alone well below zero this winter. Thank god for leather gloves!!!
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Old Oct 29, 2012 | 03:13 AM
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I have a shifty haha.

I better get on this haha. I know I'll probably take the seats heated or not, but it would be nice to have the heat.
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Old Apr 14, 2013 | 09:17 PM
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just wanted to update this,

seats swapped over fine, but there was no harness behind the dash, so im gonna have to make my own with the stock buttons. shouldnt be too hard
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Old Jan 30, 2014 | 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by DiabeticKripple
just wanted to update this,

seats swapped over fine, but there was no harness behind the dash, so im gonna have to make my own with the stock buttons. shouldnt be too hard

how'd it go? I just added stock heated seat (KA1) wiring to mine a few weeks ago. I ripped out the entire harnesses from the donor car (body and dash). I got the harnesses from a salvage yard. They charged me bulk price for the harnesses. I spent $20. When I got home, I pulled the heated seat circuit wiring from both harnesses, re-wrapped them and ran them along my existing harness. It took several hours to do. I had to completely disassemble the dash and interior, insert wiring into the BCM, pass a power lead through the firewall and into the under hood fuse block and repin the dash/body harness mating connectors at each end of the dash. It was a PITA but I do enjoy the heated seats! Aftermarket would have been easier but I like doing things as the factory would have done them. If you already have the harness under your seats, you're halfway there!
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Old Jan 30, 2014 | 09:16 AM
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I bought my car brand new from the dealership. had 12 miles on it. only option it didn't have was heated seats. I told them can you add the heated seat option and just add the price on to the loan, I don't care... they said no it involved too much work..... they must have known, or were just too stupid lol. Either way I wish I had done it over the 7 years ive owned this car
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Old Jan 30, 2014 | 11:20 AM
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I love my heated Recaros
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Old Jan 30, 2014 | 01:26 PM
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I want heated TC seats.
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Old Jan 30, 2014 | 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by bmartz1991
I want heated TC seats.
I thought about that when I had the Tc seats. Lol.
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Old Jan 30, 2014 | 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Bass_Waves
I thought about that when I had the Tc seats. Lol.
Should have did it!
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Old Jan 30, 2014 | 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by bmartz1991

Should have did it!
I didn't want to ruin good leather ss seats. Besides. I wasn't all that crazy for em anyway. My opinion is
Recaro > heated butt cheeks> Tc> Sc seats
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Old Jan 30, 2014 | 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Bass_Waves
I didn't want to ruin good leather ss seats. Besides. I wasn't all that crazy for em anyway. My opinion is
Recaro > heated butt cheeks> Tc> Sc seats
True, you know what my fav is lol
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