So this is what we call snow here in Utah, and this is a 2007 Toyota Camry.
And today we're going to be installing heated seats in the driver and passenger, and it's
actually a lot easier than you might think.
I'll leave a link for all of this stuff that we use in this video, the heated seats and
all the tools down in the video description.
Let's get started.
[Intro]
So the first step in getting the heated seats installed is taking out the driver and passenger
seat.
This just gives us easier access to work with the foam underneath the seat cover.
Now, most seats in most cars...cuz these instructions work for a lot of vehicles, and I've done
this in a truck and a car before...most seats in most cars have 4 bolts mounting them into
the frame of the vehicle.
So we've already removed those 4 bolts.
Pretty straight forward.
And now we'll just pull the seat out from the car.
Alright, these are those 4 bolts I was talking about earlier.
They just go straight into the frame on either side of those.
This had some little plastic pieces covering the bolt holes, but not too hard.
There is also a little wiring harness for the motor because this seat goes back and
forth on a motor.
So every seat cover is going to come off a little bit differently.
This has a little metal, kind of like a key ring, that's pinched around another metal
bar underneath this.
So we'll open this up, slide the bar out, and then the seat cover itself should come
apart.
So since this seat is being rather difficult and we don't want to disassemble the whole
thing, we have just enough opened that I think we can slide this all the way up inside.
Now, this does have adhesive strips, but I'm hoping to get it all up underneath this back
cover without getting it all wrinkled up and stuff.
And then we can just pull down the adhesive strip once it's inside, and tack it down onto
the foam.
Alright, so right now my hand is up underneath the heated seat cover and I'm pulling out
that adhesive strip from the backside of the pad.
And that's what's going to keep it pressed up against the foam all the way down.
So the tactic did work.
We were able to leave the seat cover intact and now that white thing you saw earlier is
going to keep the back warm here.
So now we need to put another white thing down here at the bottom for the gluteus maximus,
and then we'll wire it up.
Now that we're working on the seat, it's a lot tighter than the top was, so we're actually
using this tripod leg and ramming it pretty deep down inside there so that it's not crinkled
up on the seat and it's all laying flat.
Alright so this is the wiring harness that comes with the heated seats.
The part that goes into the white panels that we were just installing against the foam in
the seat, plug into here.
So there's two of them, one for the back and one for the bottom.
And then over here we have a relay, and that goes up this strand into the switch and we'll
show you how to install the switch in a second, but basically you have your high power and
your low power and then off is here in the center.
This is where things start to get a little more complicated.
We have a black wire which is ground, and then we have a red wire with a fuse in it.
I'll have a buddy show you how to install this in just a second.
Okay so Braxen has adjusted the ends of the wires just a little bit, so tell me what's
going on here.
[Braxen] So we have a fuse tap right here.
This car actually has a spot for seat heaters.
If it didn't have a fuse position for the seat heaters we'd actually just use like a
cigarette outlet or something like that.
Because it already has that fuse, we're just going to use an add a fuse.
It's going to connect to the power wire.
We're going to use a 10amp fuse to keep that safe.
And then we have this little eyelid down on the negative side, and we're going to connect
that into one of these bolts up here, and that will be our ground.
The rest of the wiring will run through the dash, and then we'll have our switch just
right here on the side and that will turn the seat heater on and off.
[Zack] And these back up to that plug into the seat will just run underneath this, and
then where the seat bolts in here, that will all be hidden underneath.
So the car, the only physical difference will be a switch right here on the side that we
drill to this plastic.
[Braxen] So what we're going to do with this add a circuit is run it underneath where the
dash would be.
And that's going to just plug right back into where it was.
Just like that.
[Zack] And that's where it will draw power from.
And to complete the circuit we'll take the ground, which we've added that little eyelid
onto, and bolt it into the frame.
In order to get a good ground and complete the circuit, it can't be on a painted surface.
So if there is paint between like the bolt and the frame where you're trying to ground
your circuit, make sure you scrape it off where it's touching the metal.
That way, if there isn't a good ground, your seat heaters aren't going to get as hot as
they could be because there's not enough electricity flowing through the whole unit.
Alright, so we're drawing power from up here and then we have the ground over there tapped
right into the frame.
And so when we take this little switch right here...it's off right now.
Now it's on.
And on low.
Sweet.
Let's plug it in and see if it works.
So we changed our minds a little bit about where to mount this switch at.
And so what we're going to do is this piece just clips into the dash and so it's easily
replaceable.
So I scrapped a little pilot hole into it with a razor.
We're going to drill a hole into it so that this plug will fit through the hole.
[Braxen] So we need to get this connector through the hole right there.
And this hole with the half-inch wood bit that we used isn't going to be quite big enough,
so we're just going to use a razor blade.
We're going to widen that hole just big enough to where this connector can get through and
the switch can get through, just up to that point.
[Zack] Now that we have the hole big enough, we're going to go ahead and slide the plug
through and clip the button into place.
[Braxen] So we have the switch that's going from right there, runs down through there
underneath the dash, and into the carpet area right there.
And then it runs along this panel and let's out right there.
And that's where the seats will mount back in, and then it will clip into the connectors.
[Zack] So the only thing we have left to do is grab the seat, put it in, get the four
bolts in, and it should be good to go.
We'll find out.
[Braxen] Okay, so the seat is mounted back in.
One thing that we made sure to do was route the wiring down here so that it wasn't going
to get caught in the track of the seat when it was moving forward and backward.
If you need to use zip ties on yours, do that, but if you can find a way to route it so that
it's not going to get in the way of the track, that's going to be preferred.
[Zack] Okay, so when the car is on now, or at least the accessories are on...over here
we have the button.
And so we can turn it all the way up, off, or if we go down, then the light turns green.
You can see it right there.
I do feel like these seat heaters take a little bit longer to heat up, maybe between 3 and
5 minutes.
My buddy Braxen has these same seat heaters in his truck, and how long would you say it
takes for them to turn on for you?
[Braxen] I would say about that...about 3 to 5 minutes.
[Zack] So if you're out in the snow or whatever, turning your car on, letting your windshield
defrost or whatever, they should turn on after that.
I'll keep the video description updated on whether or not these work.
Obviously we just barely installed these.
Look for that.
Also I'll have all the parts and stuff linked there as well.
Braxen, my boy, we've been friends for like probably 3 or 4 years now.
[Braxen] At least.
[Zack] And he's been doing some pretty sweet stuff with his truck.
He put a wireless car charger in his dash.
He can just set his phone, his iPhone or if he has a, you know, Android is a little bit
better than the iPhones are, but he can just set his phone on his dash.
I'll link that video right here.
I'll link that video right here if you want to go check that out, and take a look at his
channel for some more cool projects.
[Braxen] Pretty awesome.
[Zack] Thanks a ton for watching, and we'll see you around.