Re: Retrofitting seat heaters?????

[tcandey@usr.com]

>Is it possible to affordable retrofit seat heaters in a 100CS?
     
>My dealer says it can be done for, gulp!, THREE GRAND!!!!
     
>I have seat heaters on my '87 5KCS TQ, and love the 'bun warmers' in 
>winter,  but when I bought it I lived in IL,  when I bought the '93 
>100CS I was living in sub-tropical Houston, TX.
     
>jazman
>aka 'Cold Buns in IL'


He's high and I don't mean just his price.

Once upon a time I had a VW GTi that I used to freeze my butt off in.

I had a clever idea and went salvage yard hopping and found a SAAB that still 
had seats in it, and they had seat heaters. Since the seats were pretty trashed 
I got the owner to let me take the elements out of them for 20bucks. 

I proceded to install the elements into the GTi seats with a simple circut 
comprised of a switch and a varialbe resistor and wala, heates seats for 20+ 
bucks and a few hours of my time.
All it takes is a little patience and a little effort to save yourself mucho 
dinero.

Todd Candey  85 4ksq  (4ktq in progress)
USRobotics   89 90q   (our toy)
Skokie, IL USA
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