Adding heat to second row seats - how hard?

[MDC9966]

I've been trying to find a swap for my ebony black bucket seats on the 2nd row for a leather bench version. I've found a couple matches but my buckets have heated seats and the benches do not.

How difficult would it be to add the heated to the bench seat and use my stock switches? I want it to look OEM even if I use aftermarket heating elements. Could I just add the heating pads to the seats and wire them into the leads going to my stock harness and switches?

Any help is appreciated. I'm holding out for a bench with heat to make it one to one swap but those seem to pretty hard to come by.

Thanks,

 

[Regency]

Bump for a great question that everyone wants to know

 

[yukondenali]

To tell you the truth IMO I don't think it would be that hard besides taking the leather off. and you'll have to customize a wire harness to plug heating pad into the original plug. Hey good luck sir.

 

[MDC9966]

To tell you the truth IMO I don't think it would be that hard besides taking the leather off. and you'll have to customize a wire harness to plug heating pad into the original plug. Hey good luck sir.

That's what I thought too. the plug could be removed from the bucket seats. I don't know much about amps, and relays though and was concerned that the factory heating elements were something different then the heating elements that are sold in generic kits that are easy to find. Removing the covers and installing the heating pads shouldn't be to bad. I did this on a screw truck already but installed the whole system with switches and relay. This time if I have to do it, I wanted to keep the factory controls on the back of the console so that everything you can see looks bone stock.
Thanks and look forward to hearing from anyone that may have had to replace a heating element? Thanks

 

[drroy]

it is not very difficult at all. I had the same situation, had heated buckets that i wanted to trade for non heated bench.
I took the heating elements and wiring out of the buckets before the swap and later transferred them over to the bench. pretty simple.