Lude Generation

hey all,

sorry if this has been answered before but how easy is it to retro fit OME heated leather seats to a 5th gen?

my cars a 98 with leather but the seats are in a bad way looking at replacing and upgrading at the same time what parts would I need from the donor car and how much wiring should already be there (if any?) or would it just be easier to fit a aftermarket kit?


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Not sure about wiring in 5g but I believe all wires for heated seats aren't separated from looms. If so then you will have to pull them of from donor car. It's a pita. So if you have some spare wires you can ese them and wire it with circuit diagram from manual. Or use aftermarket loom. This will save you some work.
Also not sure about seats but I believe somebody will have to upholster them for you which is expensive. I was looking for OEM mats for 4g but any from donor cars were useless and new from dealer to expensive for me. So at the end I bought set of mats and looms from china (around 50 quid), then I install all wiring like Honda was doing it with colour coded wires and then I hide adjustable switches from chines set under the seats and all looks like OEM. The advantage is I can set heating temp in 5 steps then just ON/OFF

I have OEM switches with pigtails if you interested. Will go cheap

I have original 5th gen heated seats kit, removed from 5th gen.

And switches are modified and placed in ash tray in centre consol, looks briliant

I've almost done it.



I'm sorry to tell it but in my opinion it's impossible to do this mod fully in the OEM way because peoples are too lazy to take off the relay/wiring from their car. That's my conclusion afte a few months of research.
So I'll finaly go with an aftermarket relay and wire it like K30 on the OEM loom.

If you want some wiring diagramm you can PM me. Don't wire them without the relay like I've done, it may burn your switches.

This is in my opinion, one of the nicest mod to do on a 5th gen interior