2012 Ram 1500 switch to power, heated / cooled seats- done!

[GKrabbe]

Never mind, figured it out. Lights work great! Project completed, except your mention of activating the heater with autostart has got me thinking I need to add the autostart option...….I wonder if just turning on the option would enable it.

 

[jawzs2]

Great, glad it worked - interesting thought on the remote start, there is a pretty long thread in the 4th gen DIY forum on adding it though

 

[Mitchel Lenz]

Just an FYI,

AlfaOBD works miracles, and this is on a 2010, so yes, it will work on older models just fine

I made the following two changes to SET,

Car configuration change: Vehicle Config 1: Heated Seats Present: ' NOT SET ' -> '1 '
Car configuration change: Cabin Network: HSM Heated Seat Module: ' NOT SET ' -> '1 '

and Voila! the switch LED's for the heated\vented seats, and heated steering wheel all work as designed.

I am a happy guy!

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Hey, I see you have a 2010 and you said it was all plug and play to swap in the seats, did you have an electric drivers seat already? what package do you have. I am looking at buying an SLT mega Cab and was trying to figure out how hard some laramie longhorn seats would be be to swap in. Because the OP looks like he had a lot of work to do. but you on the hand did not. So I was just curious, if oyu had an SLT or a Big Horn?

 

[jawzs2]

Hey, I see you have a 2010 and you said it was all plug and play to swap in the seats, did you have an electric drivers seat already? what package do you have. I am looking at buying an SLT mega Cab and was trying to figure out how hard some laramie longhorn seats would be be to swap in. Because the OP looks like he had a lot of work to do. but you on the hand did not. So I was just curious, if oyu had an SLT or a Big Horn?

Welcome to the forum. I have a BigHorn, drivers seat was powered. passenger manual. Luckily. my wiring was already there on both sides and in the dash, even the heated wheel wiring was in the column, seats and switches plugged right in, replaced the clockspring in the column for the heated wheel version, and everything worked right out of the box, with the exception of the LED's on the switches, (the seats did still work though), just no lights. Used AlfaOBD as stated above to get those working.

Several others have posted on here the SLT trim and above have the necessary wiring, but I can't confirm that. My son has a 2012 2500 SLT trim and his does not

 

[bighorntactical]

Just an FYI,

AlfaOBD works miracles, and this is on a 2010, so yes, it will work on older models just fine

I made the following two changes to SET,

Car configuration change: Vehicle Config 1: Heated Seats Present: ' NOT SET ' -> '1 '
Car configuration change: Cabin Network: HSM Heated Seat Module: ' NOT SET ' -> '1 '

and Voila! the switch LED's for the heated\vented seats, and heated steering wheel all work as designed.

I am a happy guy!

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Just curious if you installed rear heated seats as well, I've added a new body harness on a 2012 crew cab with heated/air seats up front and heated in the rear, made certain all the wiring was plug and play and necessary fuses were in place and enabled on alfaobd however when reviewing previous features I've added with alfaobd next to the feature it says present, however when I scroll to the feature rear heated seat it doesnt say anything (no present), then select that feature to select as set and it says it's set. I've disabled the feature and tried to set again but no difference and no rear heated seats working, just curious if your rear heated seat feature shows as present when you scroll through the options on your truck with alfaobd? Thx

 

[jawzs2]

Just curious if you installed rear heated seats as well, I've added a new body harness on a 2012 crew cab with heated/air seats up front and heated in the rear, made certain all the wiring was plug and play and necessary fuses were in place and enabled on alfaobd however when reviewing previous features I've added with alfaobd next to the feature it says present, however when I scroll to the feature rear heated seat it doesnt say anything (no present), then select that feature to select as set and it says it's set. I've disabled the feature and tried to set again but no difference and no rear heated seats working, just curious if your rear heated seat feature shows as present when you scroll through the options on your truck with alfaobd? Thx

No, sorry, I just did the front, the rear's I got weren't heated.

 

[bighorntactical]

well I did just configure the following
Car configuration change: Cabin Network: HSM Heated Seat Module: ' NOT SET ' -> '1'

and did get the lights to work on the buttons, which was nice I was searching for that bit of info for a bit much appreciated, I did notice that cabin nework HSM heated seat module doesnt show as present on the list as I scroll but once I select it the value states as set so being that rear heated seats says the same thing I doubt it's an alfaobd issue might be the wiring but nice having the illuminaiton on the buttons