I installed seat heaters just the other day and wired them into an ignition on powered fuse beneath the drivers seat so they wouldn't drain the battery when the vehicle was off. It took a little while to find the proper location, but all in all, it's working as hoped. Got our first snow storm here in Montana yesterday and temps in the teens, stoked for the seat heat.
Please PLEASE Provide pics/Fuse Location and number beneath the drivers seat!!!
It appears I have a short in my seat heater unit. It works for about a week and then shorts out, so need to do some testing to determine if the fault is in the heating element or my wiring. That being said, I found a ignition on power source beneath the driver seat in the front right corner. Looks to be the C33-E connection as shown on page 117 of the BEMM. Haven't had a moment to take the seat out to look at it closer, which is unfortunate cause we are about to have high temps of -4 next week. I recommend testing some of the fuse locations beneath the seat, you should be able to come up with something. Good luck
for 2017 it appears to be included with the power seat option
This is really ambiguous. One would hope that the heated seats do not operate unless the ignition switch is on. In the manual they tell you that the heat will be on when you switch the ignition on (if the heater switch is on). They don't say weather the heat is on if the heat switch is on and the ignition is off. That would be bad!
Not sure if the Transit is the same as the F150 so this may be incorrect info. If I turned on my seat heaters it simply meant that the next time I turn the key to on, they will begin to heat the seats. When the key is off, they did not. I believe the warning may be that in the on/acc key position they will come on unless you manually turn them off. Ironically, in my F150 (now gone) if I turned on the rear window defoggers, they would do the same thing.
That makes sense... now... can they be retro-fitted to a 2015? I wonder.
Can you tell me where you bought the heated pads for the seats and how did you install them please?
I bought the seats on Amazon, pretty cheap, which probably explains why one of them already shorted out... Fortunately the passenger seat works, so the mrs. is still happy. I wouldn't recommend the Water Carbon Premium Heated Seats on Amazon. The company refused to acknowledge my emails for replacement and quite frankly I don't look forward to pulling the old one out to install a new one.
