Seat Heater Element Issue

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@aharlan001 Appreciate the confirmation. Just spoke with another dealer parts dept and was given a discounted quote of $485 for the seat bottom and $346 for the seat back. I’ll now be looking for a junkyard driver seat.
 
When I looked a month or so ago there were a few lc part outs on ih8mud that were willing to send me just the element, if you are looking for an entire seat it will require some luck or $$$
 
I just found a local junkyard that will sell me an 2001 driver seat on Thursday for $125. Gambling on a functioning element, but will start here. Thanks for the classified part seller rec...will check there too. Thanks.
 
There is no aftermarket plug and play. Your options are dealer oem which is several hundred dollars or used from a part out maybe 75-100$. If you go aftermarket you will have to wire into the vehicles power and install a switch somewhere. You will lose the factory switch.
If this were me, since the OEM part is $400+, I would buy one of these aftermarket kits. Heating element only is $100 and heat + ventilation is $400 (per seat). You would cut out your factory system and then use the 12V power already wired under your seat. The aftermarket button is approximately the same size as the OEM button you would be replacing, requiring only slight fabrication to fit.
 
Make sure you test both the high and low settings on the switch. For a few months I rode around thinking the heated seat was fully dead but I had only tested it on the "high" setting (even when I swapped switches to see if it was the switch). I accidentally bumped it to the "low" setting later on and it worked! So clearly my "high" element is bad and my "low" element is OK.
 
Make sure you test both the high and low settings on the switch. For a few months I rode around thinking the heated seat was fully dead but I had only tested it on the "high" setting (even when I swapped switches to see if it was the switch). I accidentally bumped it to the "low" setting later on and it worked! So clearly my "high" element is bad and my "low" element is OK.
This... thought that my passenger seat was dead. Wife bumped it to LO and found that only right side of it heats up. So thinking there are broken lines somewhere in the heating element. Will pull the seat and play with it this summer when I don't drive the truck all that often (probably at the same time I decide to replace the stock amp).
 
I opted to abandon the seat heaters. (2) of Toyota part number 55539-60020-C0 ($4.03/each). These are switch blanks to remove the (2) switches.

Probably not for most, but an option nonetheless.

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I opted to abandon the seat heaters. (2) of Toyota part number 55539-60020-C0 ($4.03/each). These are switch blanks to remove the (2) switches.

Probably not for most, but an option nonetheless.

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I like that scanguage placement. How did you mount it? Do you like it there?
 

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