My ass is cold. Comfort package installable?
12-02-2010, 10:03 PM
#11
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Cold sink! LOL! That sucks, resting your butt on what basically is a block of ice.
Sorry, Nerd alert:
Actually, calling the leather a heat sink is more appropriate in this case too.
What it does is it draws the heat straight out of your *** and into the leather, which is a heat-void from the frigid temps.
Heat travels from the warm place to the cold place because cold is just an absence of heat. Likewise, when it is a hot summer day, and your mom yess at you for leaving the door open and letting the cold go out, that is not a correct statement either, she should have said "close the door, you are letting the hot into the house!"
Sorry, Nerd alert:
Actually, calling the leather a heat sink is more appropriate in this case too.
What it does is it draws the heat straight out of your *** and into the leather, which is a heat-void from the frigid temps.
Heat travels from the warm place to the cold place because cold is just an absence of heat. Likewise, when it is a hot summer day, and your mom yess at you for leaving the door open and letting the cold go out, that is not a correct statement either, she should have said "close the door, you are letting the hot into the house!"
12-02-2010, 10:31 PM
#13
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Indiana
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OP, there are a few (common sense really) tools/tricks I use, like a remote starter to get it heating before I leave the warm house, and also if I have to leave immediately, I keep the car on interior air circulation only, it helps a little in the beginning when the cars an ice box.
12-03-2010, 12:46 AM
#14
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: CA
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Noooooo! Kinda figured as much...may look into it, but I'd hate to have some incompetent butcher my interior. Maybe some of those sweet white fluffy autozone seat covers....the ones that leave lint on everything.
It's in the teens in the morning, so a bit nipply in the high desert. Love the weather in this type of area, but some months are a bit on the high/low side. I almost switched out the shifter **** a few months ago, was too damn hot to touch.
Engineer alert: Add to that the office work related problem of surface area as related to heat transfer... 
Originally Posted by baddog671
California = Cold ?????
Originally Posted by JIM5.0
...Sorry, Nerd alert:....What it does is it draws the heat straight out of your *** and into the leather....
12-06-2010, 03:17 AM
#15
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Queens, NY
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I have the e-bay heated seat kits in my car. They work great. If you know your way around electronics and use some common sense its a piece of cake. Less than 200 bux for the package and about 3 hours to install. If you don't know your way around a circuit though find someone that does. I have had mine for over a two winters. No problems.
The other solution is a heated pad that plugs into a cigarete lighter. Pretty cheap stuff actualy and you can get one that also massages your nutz...LOL
The other solution is a heated pad that plugs into a cigarete lighter. Pretty cheap stuff actualy and you can get one that also massages your nutz...LOL
12-06-2010, 05:52 AM
#16
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Location: Jacksonville NC
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Looking to do this in my sisters vert before doing my car. Got a link to the Ebay vendor you used? There's so many kits out there I can't make up my mind but need to get it ordered soon in time for Christmas.
12-06-2010, 11:37 AM
#17
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Location: NW Arkansas
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The OEM heated seats work off a relay pack under the drivers side dash.
Your stang does not have this.
You will need these plus the wiring harnesses.
Nor does it have the switches
The heated seats buttons will be needed as well
as the reprogramming of the SJB for it to all be OEM..
Your stang does not have this.
You will need these plus the wiring harnesses.
Nor does it have the switches
The heated seats buttons will be needed as well
as the reprogramming of the SJB for it to all be OEM..
12-06-2010, 12:03 PM
#18
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Wilsonville Oregon
Posts: 293
It was the 1st time I've taken seat covers off (leather) and only took about 2hrs to install.
I installed the 2 position switiches in the center dash besel and they looked factory.
The biggest plus for me was the padding from the heaters make the seats feel better.
My son has one of these kits that he might be willing to sell. He was going to put it in his 2000 SS but now he's looking at getting a new SS.
Here's a cheesy video (not mine) but shows the basic install & what the switch looks like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M16cfhfP6Tg
Last edited by heslekrants; 12-06-2010 at 01:56 PM.
12-06-2010, 12:12 PM
#19
I once was a dumbass and I put a tranny that required an additional radiator to keep it cool; the stock radiator was insufficient at doing it.
Well, during the winter, because my tranny was burning up, my car ate up cooling fluid like crazy. One of the problems of course was my car heater quit working because there was no cooling fluid!!!!
My GF at the time froze her *** off, so she used to take along a heater blanket and plug that into the cig lighter.
Boy, howdy did I learn a hard lesson, everything else went downhill from there. After the heater quit working, the tranny quit going into reverse! Pushing my car out of parking spaces was really embarrassing. Then, my car got locked into 1st gear and would never upshift. The tranny was forever toast form there.
Well, during the winter, because my tranny was burning up, my car ate up cooling fluid like crazy. One of the problems of course was my car heater quit working because there was no cooling fluid!!!!
My GF at the time froze her *** off, so she used to take along a heater blanket and plug that into the cig lighter.
Boy, howdy did I learn a hard lesson, everything else went downhill from there. After the heater quit working, the tranny quit going into reverse! Pushing my car out of parking spaces was really embarrassing. Then, my car got locked into 1st gear and would never upshift. The tranny was forever toast form there.
12-06-2010, 04:27 PM
#20
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I once was a dumbass and I put a tranny that required an additional radiator to keep it cool; the stock radiator was insufficient at doing it.
Well, during the winter, because my tranny was burning up, my car ate up cooling fluid like crazy. One of the problems of course was my car heater quit working because there was no cooling fluid!!!!
My GF at the time froze her *** off, so she used to take along a heater blanket and plug that into the cig lighter.
Boy, howdy did I learn a hard lesson, everything else went downhill from there. After the heater quit working, the tranny quit going into reverse! Pushing my car out of parking spaces was really embarrassing. Then, my car got locked into 1st gear and would never upshift. The tranny was forever toast form there.
Well, during the winter, because my tranny was burning up, my car ate up cooling fluid like crazy. One of the problems of course was my car heater quit working because there was no cooling fluid!!!!
My GF at the time froze her *** off, so she used to take along a heater blanket and plug that into the cig lighter.
Boy, howdy did I learn a hard lesson, everything else went downhill from there. After the heater quit working, the tranny quit going into reverse! Pushing my car out of parking spaces was really embarrassing. Then, my car got locked into 1st gear and would never upshift. The tranny was forever toast form there.
You had no heater because there was no cooling fluid?
Do you mean anti-freeze?
That has nothing to do with an additional tranny cooler...
Burning up tranny causes loss of cooling fluid?
