The NA vehicles did not come with the seat heat wiring harness. Supposedly, all the LXs sold in Canada (96-97) had heated front seats and lockers as “standard” equipment. As mentioned, my LX came with “factory” heated seats, but they were “dealer” installed. The wiring in my LX for the heated...
Those Sheel Mann pics aren’t really clear to me about the installation, but it is good to see it is making more sense to you. Even the Toyota explanation is fuzzy for me. Not your simple on/off circuit that’s for sure.
I’ve never added a fuse to the factory fuse box, but if you can purchase the...
Hard to explain what to do. Red is typically power (+12VDC), and black is typically negative/ground.
If what @Outsane works, then you can try his approach, but technically if you are going to tap into the power seat circuit, I would first check to see what value it’s fuse is sized at and check...
As @Outsane mentioned, he tapped into the power lead for the power seats. Can’t recall what they did for mine, but I’m guessing they did something similar as there was definitely no new power leads on to the battery. Do you now how much wattage/amps the heating elements are spec’s at? In this...
My LX 450 came with “factory” heated seats, but it was clearly a dealer or third party install and definitely not up to Toyota standards. There was a thread/ post here recently about it and someone posted the Toyota factory schematic for an overseas variant. It’s a big wiring job to do it...