Hello,

Is it possible to retrofit the OEM front heated seats (including the ability to control the bottom/back heating amounts from the iDrive interface)?

Thanks!

 

i dont think so but if hear that is can let me know as i would love that mod also

 

Possible but of course they are not OEM anymore, nor the seats.

The wirering is there (on all BMW's) but is it worth it - I do not think so.

Buy the heather units and rip the leather seats, install the units,
re-stitch the seats and re-programm the iDrive, its done. :thumbsdown:

 

I don't think it would be possible, if the seat are anything like the MINI's seats. My wife had a custom leather interior fitted to her MINI and when they took the original BMW leather off the seats, the heating elements were glued to the back of the leather in a foam backing. It was impossible to remove the heating element without damaging it hence she doesn't have heated seats anymore. :thumbsdown:

 

Thanks for the input. I have installed aftermarket heated seats on cars before, so I'm used to working w/ upholstery, but I'm more concerned w/ the wiring and the iDrive integration w/ it.

 

fitting the original (?) heaters is not the problem; I had it done in one of my previous 5-ers
I doubt though if you can control them in the Idrive menu, let alone adjust the balance: my opinion: put it out of your head (to give you an example of were a thing like this can lead to: they are trying now for over a month to install the oem bluetooth interface in my wife's 1998 e39, sofar without succes, but, uptill now, a 2000 dollar bill)