NATO
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I reckon given heated seats are £300 to activate, £100-£150 is probably a realistic price Tesla might set for it
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I think the consensus was that you either have the heated wheel or you don't. AFAIK there were no "sleeper" heated steering wheels that you could activate in software.I take it no updates on this?
Have you thought about powering it another way? Tapping into the rear screen heating circuit for example so you can still turn it on/off remotely.Essentially the further I went down the rabbit hole the more it became clear that it would be effectively impossible short of wholesale changing significant parts of the car in terms of looms and modules, beyond the scope of any realistic retrofit.
Yup, there is a guy who did exactly that. It works well enough, I’m just not in the right head space to do the mod.Have you thought about powering it another way? Tapping into the rear screen heating circuit for example so you can still turn it on/off remotely.
2021 on cars have a different left body controller (which as its name suggests controls the left hand side of the car, which includes the steering wheel even on RHD cars) which it is assumed to have more beefed up MOSFETs to handle the heating for the wheel.
This controller is not retrofittable in practical terms. I investigated the possibility of it but several connectors are completely different, and even if you could change this controller I would presume you would need to change other things for compatibility.
Essentially the further I went down the rabbit hole the more it became clear that it would be effectively impossible short of wholesale changing significant parts of the car in terms of looms and modules, beyond the scope of any realistic retrofit.
My local SC spent 3.5 hours trying to get mine to work using scripts designed to enable it on cars that had arrived without it enabled, without any luck. From speaking to the techs involved I think they managed to get the button to appear on the screen, but it didn't do anything. The consensus was that the car was checking that everything in the pathway was compatible before allowing it to function. Provisioning the two options ("heated wheel fitted", "heated wheel enabled") wasn't enough.
Our 2021 M3 was delivered late Dec 2020, so would have been built a few months earlier. It didn't have a heated steering wheel either. It's definitely a nice option to have and I did miss not having one on this car.Aw man... thanks for this detail. I'm waiting to take delivery on a used Model Y I got from Tesla. It's VIN shows it as a 2021, but I later found out it was built circa October 2020. From the specs it looks like it does not have the heated steering wheel (see pic). I'm bummed because I didn't realize a vehicle built at the end of 2020 can still be a 2021 model year. Well, not the end of the world I guess. My wife thinks I'm insane for being upset over a heated steering wheel
Yeah... it's just that I already paid the downpayment and transport fee. So not sure if it's too late to pass.Our 2021 M3 was delivered late Dec 2020, so would have been built a few months earlier. It didn't have a heated steering wheel either. It's definitely a nice option to have and I did miss not having one on this car.
I can't imagine retro-fitting would be cost effective. If you want a heated wheel that much I would simply pass on this particular car and find one a few months newer with the heated wheel as standard.