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The
seat heat pads installed were purchased from http://www.sportsimportsltd.com/pecafidutewa.html Make
sure you purchase the Add A circuit or you can buy one locally. I've
added some supplemental pictures provided by JPM, Elff, TomatoSoup, 2WK4U and
some additional comments. I want to
thank these gentlemen for the excellent work they did and for documenting
this modification as well as they did.
The only reason for putting this how to together was to combine all of
the wonderful ideas and work into a single document. My comments are in this
blue font. The
simple install places the heater switches on the back wall by the waterfall
under the cup holder. This
installation requires the least amount of disassembly and does not require
any soldering. To place the switches
on the dash, the switch harness needs to be extended about 40" and the
entire dash needs to be disassembled. The
original instructions can be found at the following URL: http://kappaperformance.com/index.php?topic=3772.new#new ___________________________________________________________________________ Remove seats. Each seat is held in by 4 bolts,
15mm. The driver's seat has a power connector underneath and the
passenger has the airbag sensor connector under it. The seat belt is
held on with a #50 torx. The
following pictures provided by JPM from the saggy seat fix HowTo. Remove
the two 15 MM bolts on the front of the seat:
Slide
the seat forward and remove the two bolts on the back of the seat.
Unplug
the wiring harness from the seat:
As
a precaution, I would remove the door sill before tilting the seat
forward. The Seat belt bolt sticks out
a bit and it can easily get caught on the corner of the door sill.
Tilt
the seat to the side and remove the #50 Torx bolt on the seat belt. Disconnect the connectors on the cables
to the seat.
Now
you can remove the seats from the car.
Pull
out switch And
disconnect connector The
Passenger seats have two plastic retainer clips. Pull these out using a door panel pry bar.
Passenger seat side piece held in with plug
(Plastic Retainer clip)
The
seat covers on the Solstice are held in place with Velcro strips. The heating pads on the seat bottom will
need to have slits cut into them to expose the Velcro and allow the seat
covers to re-attach to the Velcro. These pads have carbon
fiber circuits that allow the middle of the pad to be cut as long as the
circuits on the edge of the pad remain uncut.
Make sure to avoid getting too close to the edges of the pad. Place pad on seat and draw where to cut the
pad over the seat Velcro
Lay
the heating pad on the seat back and route the wires down the same side as
the seat belt.
Next two are passenger seat photos
This
picture was provided by ELFF. He located the switches along the rear
waterfall right by the Emergency brake panel.
The advantage of this location is that both buttons are equally
accessible to both passengers but they are difficult to reach. This is by far
the easiest location to use. Simply
drill a hole and put the switches in. in retrospect, I wish I had chosen this
location when I did my switches. It
requires the least amount of disassembly.
Remove
the Emergency brake trim panel by prying up the rear of the panel and tilting
it forward. Make sure the emergency
brake lever is all the way up.
If
you chose this location for your switches, drill two 3/4" holes in the
locations shown and insert switches and leads, skip to the instructions for
"seat installation ground and power" connections below. If
you chose to go with the dash mounted location skip to the dash installation
instructions below. Dash mounted switch
installation If
you decided to place the switches on the dash, you have a lot more work ahead
of you. Before installing the seats,
cut the switch harness and add a 4 conductor trailer connector to the part of the harness that is on the
seat.
Slide
some heat shrink tubing onto each individual wire and then a larger piece
over all 4 wires and the harness.
Chances are the colors on the plug wires are not going to match the
ones on the harness, just match them up as best as you can and keep track of
which ones you connected together. The
male connector (the one with the most exposed contacts) goes on the seat.
Solder
the connections together, then slide the heat shrink tubing over each
connections and shrink them with a heat gun.
When you are finished pull the larger heat shrink tubing over all 4
connections and down to the plug.
Shrink this tubing with a heat gun.
Solder
a 40" of 16 gauge 4 conductor cable onto the other half of the harness
with the mating switch connector. Now
you heed to disassemble the dash. Pry the cover off on the trim panel to the
grab bar.
Remove the shifter trim ring. This is a two step operation. First pop the trim ring up. It will remain attached to the shifter
boot. Once it is unseated, you need to
remove it from the black plastic ring to which the shift boot is glued. Be careful with this, there are a lot of
small tabs on the trim ring and they tend to break easily.
Remove
the 10MM bolts on the grab bar. Note
that you will not be able to remove the grab bar at this pointy but you need
to loosen it up.
Now
it's time to remove the boomerang.
Its easier to start at the lower left of the gauge cluster, and work
around clockwise. Pull the boomerang straight out with your hands. Be careful
near sides of the radio. There are two clips on each side and the boomerang
is very thin there. carefully unplug all of the connectors starting with the
cigarette lighter and working your way up.
This is a difficult job and you need to press the connector release
tabs which are located all over the place.
removed center console lower section. There are four 7mm bolts holding it in place. Then, you will need to disengage the tabs on
the passenger side and pull it up.
The
author mounted both switches together but it might be more convenient for
your passenger if you mount the passenger side switch closer to the passenger
side. An
alternate location is on the dash below the AC controls and above the radio
as shown in TomatoSoup's car.
Although
the switches appear to be quite low, the controls for the AC prevent them
from being mounted any higher without modifying the AC control housing. If
you want to mount them a little higher, here are some pictures from 2KWK4U
illustrating the modifications required and a final picture.
So,
to do this, start by removing the boomerang and removing the AC controls
which are attached to the boomerang with four 7MM bolts.
Now,
Lay some masking tape parallel to the radio opening. Mark two lines on the tape parallel to the
vertical edges of the radio opening.
Now
mark a spot for a pilot hole dimensioned as shown.
Drill
two 3/4" holes over through the pilot holes.
If
you have a steady hand, you can use a 3/4" drill bit and drill straight
through the AC control housing just barely gouging the bottom of the control
panel. Otherwise, use a round file and
gouge out a trench for the wires as shown in 2WK4U's pictures above. Now,
Pull the extended switch leads down through the dash opening alongside the
AC/Heater cables. Keep the left switch
lead to the left and the right lead to the right. Use a coat hanger or fish tape to route the
extended switch leads next to the wiring harness by the E brake and down
underneath the carpeting to the same spot where the seat cables are coming
out. Make sure that all cables are
routed behind the rear seat studs closest to the tunnel. Failure to do so will cause seat track to
pinch the wires.
Once
the switch lead has been pulled completely to the rug opening and all
carpeting has been adjusted to lay flat, you can solder the female trailer
connector to the switch lead using the procedure described above. Seat installation,
ground and power connections Now
you are ready to install the seats.
Pull the white and red power cables under the rug and up to wiring
harness by the ebrake. if you chose the rear wall location to mount he
switches, pull the switch leads along with the power leads and plug the
switch connector to the switch lead. Use a coat hanger as a fish tape to pull
the wires. Reconnect
the connectors on the seat. Re-install and tighten the four 15MM seat bolts.
Reattach the seat belt using the 50MM Torx bolt. Re-install the door sill plates. Cut
the "red" power and "white" ground wires to an
appropriate size and splice them together.
there is a ground stud by the ebrake handle. Strip the two white wires and insert them
into an electrical eye lug. Slide some
heat shrink tubing over the white wires first and then crimp the eyelet
securely. Pull the heat shrink tubing
over the lug and shrink it with a heat gun.
Remove the 10mm nut from the grounding stud and insert the white wires
onto the stud. Replace the nut and
tighten it.
Pull
the red wire under the rug and route it to the fuse panel in the passenger
foot well. You will need to extend the
red wire. The "red" wire
needs to be connected to a switched power source. You can use a mini add a circuit on Fuse 21
of the fuse panel by the passenger foot well.
the seat heater includes insert a 20 AMP fuse into the add a circuit
to provide power to both seats.
Now
reattach the ebrake trim panel and you are all done. Finished product
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