Heated Seats Switch Relocation

Okay, heres the deal. Bought an entire center console from a junk yard to swipe the rear cupholders for $40. Well worth it in my mind. So after I cleaned up the junkyard one, I plopped my phone in that little cubby where the heated seats switches go and realized that its a PERFECT placement for where I like my phone. Long story short, anyone have any ideas of alternate places to put the seat heater switches? I will NOT lose that function, even for a phone. I considered the 07+ console top with SI drive, which would allow me to relocate the switch back, but the front place is circular and different.





Help Appreciated!

Take the door off of your cig lighter and ashtray, remove ashtray, reshape the heated seat switch surround and mount where the ashtray currently is. You may be able to pull it off without loosing the door. More than likely the door will have to go. It's all held in by a few screws and clips.

-Clif

I'm glad you brought this up, I wanted to do something similar(I plan on switching to 6MT and want to replace the SI Drive knob with the DCCD controls.);

The SI Drive center consoles have the heater switches further back on the driver's side:


I was worried that you'd have to extend the heater control wires; but the pic of that console(05-06) shows a separate pigtail so I'm assuming the 07-09 have something similar and should swap over?

This is a 2009 2.5i Special Edition; hard to see: if those are heater switches, it may be what you're looking for:

Yep Been wanting to do this same thing just hard to find counsel that has the spot close to the drivers side for the Heated seat button. Love that little Change pocket.

Post pictures of the connectors in the non-SI drive heater switches that you have, perhaps the SI drive heater switches are the same and you can use the switches and cut a hole and mount them in the location that the SI drive console uses and keep the cubie you have.

they are not the same...
also the SI-drive change holder is terrible compared to the one we all like

Do you know anything about the 2.5i Special edition I posted up? Are those heater switches(it has the square compartment unlike the s-drive)?

bad pic, but it looks like it to me
custom cut i'm sure (post #4)
#3 is the regular one for the SI drive models