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by quickthrower2 1434 days ago
Hmmm… Can I get free BMW seat warming this way?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32065026 ("BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in South Korea") for people out of the loop.
Quite possible, I think. I've heard quite a bit of buzz around jailbreaking Teslas for unpaid for features.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3mb3w/people-are-jailbreaki...

A seat warmer is just a resistor. Find the connector and wire up 12V to it through a switch.
You can see how well this goes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrnCDKB1hE0

Except in your heated seat in the car, a heating element that's correctly designed not to fry bacon or heat huge volumes of air is already integrated into your seat. This video is just this guy intentionally being a a moron. (Well, at lest for the first few minutes of it which I could bear to watch. Maybe he smartened up later.)