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There is no option to add the heated wheel but some people gave been able to have the heated seats code added due to the fact that Mopar offers a heated seat kit that you can buy.
Can you take a picture have your driver and passenger side seat connectors and post it for us to see? Also there should be a black module underneath the driver seat if you have factory heated seats. Your Bighorn will have the correct wiring for the heated/vented seats even if your truck did not come with them. They ran the same harness and all of them so you would be set there. It may have been a situation where somebody replaced that seat and it happened to be the heated. They may not have even known it was a heated seat when they replaced it. Of course if they just replace the one seat the system is not going to work correctly because you don't have the rest of the components installed. The only way you would be able to tell if you had a heated steering wheel would be to remove the driver side airbag and see if you had the extra wire for the heating element. The heated steering wheel also requires a different clock spring. If they happened to replace both your seats with the heated seats it wouldn't be that expensive to finish the job and go ahead and install the heated steering wheel with the correct clock spring and put in your switches. In many case the heated seats and steering wheel will actually work without the codes but the controls will not come up in your screen. You can only turn them on with the buttons in the dash which is no big deal. If they didn't work you could just buy an OBD Genie to install the codes into your truck or possibly have the dealer add them and you would be set. Try to post some good pictures of both the seat connectors on driver and passenger side and we'll see if we can figure out what's going on.
Yes the picture you posted is definitely an heating element. It may not be factory though. If it's a factory heated seat it has to have the black module under the seat because that's what actually controls the system. It's not very big so you may not have noticed it I should be mounted towards the left side under the driver seat closest to the door. If you get us some good pictures of the plugs we should be able to start figuring out what's going on.
if I accidentally have them in my truck they sure dont turn on by themselves! I do have remote start and the drivers seat doesnt warm up so Im guessing I wasnt one of the strange, lucky ones.
You would need to actually have the sales codes programmed into your truck for the auto on comfort function to operate. Plus you would also need to have the switches in order to turn them on to see if by dome chance you had them. Half the battle is just seeing if you have the heated seats. I have not heard of this before I think it's fascinating that they actually put heated seats in his truck if that's the case. The biggest expense about upgrading these trucks his actual seats themselves. If his truck happens to be one of the ones that seems to have the seats it would not cost him much at all to finish the job.I think someone else here (or the Z forum) mentioned "Phantom heated seats" in a truck they bought WITHOUT the option.
I wish I had one of those
Yes your truck definitely has the correct wiring for the heated/ventilated seats and heated wheel. If you look you can clearly see the pink/yellow wires in the yellow plug plus the gray plug is fully populated. You'll notice your truck side harness has a lot more wires in the connectors than your seat side harness. Your seats unfortunately did not have the correct wiring or the module for the heated seats/wheel. The seats definitely do seem to have heating elements in them and I'm really not sure why but it appears that that's all they have. In order to posibly make your heated seats function you would need to purchase different seat harnesses for both seats plus the module and the correct switch panel and would possibly need to have the sales code added in order for them to work. For some reason some trucks work without the sales code and some don't.Hey Guys,
So here is a pic of the harness on the truck side...
