GMoroziuk6 Posted November 15, 2014 Report Share Posted November 15, 2014 Hey guys! It's my first post and I was just wondering if any of you knew anything about how dodge has the wiring harness in the steering column of the journey. We bought a 2013 SXT with heated seats, but no wheel about a week ago and if I find a wheel with the proper uConnect/curise control buttons + a heating element, could I switch them out? does it need a new harness or are all the wires already there? Any help/ suggestions are greatly appreciated. So far I know that; Mopar sells heated wheels for $600 I can find a wheel that came out of an accident car for about $100 The heated wheel is available on higher end 2013 trim levels (R/T) I would need to add the heated wheel soft key to the radio control page thing somehow. (I have the uConnect 8.4N btw) Thanks in advance :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkeaton Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 Welcome to the forum. My guess would be even if all the necessary hardware and wiring are there to install, he dealer would still need to program the system to operate. GMoroziuk6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhh3 Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 Welcome to the forum. I'll be curious to see if you can pull this off as a heated wheel might be of interest to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMoroziuk6 Posted November 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 Welcome to the forum. My guess would be even if all the necessary hardware and wiring are there to install, he dealer would still need to program the system to operate. Thanks for the welcome I talked to some people and what I go was that the wheel could be swapped out for a heated one, although depending on the exact time the car was built there may or may not be a harness for the heated wheel in the steering column. As for the switch, the dealer could refresh the system to add the button, but according to a guy at Canadian tire he added a heated wheel to his dodge car (charger I think he said) and used clamps to tie into the power control/supply of the heated drivers seat, making the seat and wheel come on together... Regardless, doing so voids the "bumper to bumper" warranty so its not happening in my car for another year :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMoroziuk6 Posted November 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 Welcome to the forum. I'll be curious to see if you can pull this off as a heated wheel might be of interest to me. As I stated in a previous reply, it is possible from what i've heard from various people. Depending on the car, year, when it was built and the trim level, there may or may not be a pre installed harness for the heated wheel. If not I talked to someone that had just used some wire clamps (the kind with the metal arch that slices through the wire coating and just conducts over to the other wire, i'll see if I can find a picture later) to hook the wheel into the heated driver seat switch so they come on and off together with out having to flash the radio... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj cowboy Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Were the heated seats aftermarket? I thought that it was a package in the Journey that if you got one, got both? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMoroziuk6 Posted December 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 The window sticker has heated seats listed in the driver convince package. So I'm gonna take a guess and say they don't come together, at least not in 2013 anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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