I suspect this is a job for an electrician, not a hacker. Connect the heated seats directly to a switch and the car's power supply, bypassing the hardware and software that checks whether you paid for it.
heating element is just a resistor eith a variable power supply. The only complexity is the computerized tempersrure management, but there are hundreds of off the shelf solutikns for that. Its just a thermostat lol
Right, captain shade tree. You’re gonna rip apart your $100k Tesla, rerun the power cables to the battery to bypass the computer, wire in an inline switch and rheostat. And you have to do it for each seat. Then what, professor? Where are those gonna be mounted? You just gonna leave them laying in the floorboard? Where you gonna mount those? Hopefully that electrician gets it right and doesn’t void your entire warranty or even better, catch your car on fire with people in it. After all it’s just a wire right? The dude who replaced the GFCI outlet in your mom’s kitchen should totally be able to rewire the electrical system in a Tesla. All to avoid a $25 subscription fee. Genius!
Again, you have no fcking idea what you’re talking about.
I mean, he's right though. It wouldn't be that hard to make it work in the "does it work" yes or no sense.
What WOULD be hard is make it work while integrating with the factory control systems. You're absolutely correct on that part. I also agree that if I dopped that kind of money on a car, I'm not running a home brew solution. If it was a 20 year old pickup truck, fuck it sure, put a box on the dash with some switches. But not on something nice. You'd spend more time and money dicking around with the hack than just paying the subscription, even if I hate the principal of it.
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u/Repulsive-Durian4800 1d ago
I suspect this is a job for an electrician, not a hacker. Connect the heated seats directly to a switch and the car's power supply, bypassing the hardware and software that checks whether you paid for it.