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  1. Asmara

    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    Somebody needs to post the wiring diagram (or at least the entire instructions) from the Clazzio kit since that seems to be the most common for questions. Let's work backward on your questions. Note that I don't have this kit, but based on previous questions, I will make some educated guesses...
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    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    Switch type doesn't matter. Everything is the same as far as the factory connection points.
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    Wiring preparation

    That is really weird. I double-checked the URL before I posted and it was working. The site is down for me right now too. Maybe try again in a few days. When I was wiring up my seat heaters and needed the diagrams (that site above didn't have my year if I recall correctly), I just subscribed...
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    Wiring preparation

    This website (in Russian but use your browser to see English) has wiring diagrams. http://zatonevkredit.ru/
  5. Asmara

    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    Almost. Mine does not have wiring to the center console. Different aftermarket systems work differently but on mine the electrical goes IE2 through the switch to the aftermarket relay to the seat heaters. My relay doesn't work like one would expect (separate a high current drawn from passing...
  6. Asmara

    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    Sounds like you are overthinking it. If you already have seat heaters installed, just move the power wires from the USB to IE2 and drop in a relay. The IE2 tap just provides power from the factory location. All the different seat heaters have different wiring but basically you follow those...
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    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

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    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    That is the wire. That connector (with the sky blue wire) plugs into IE2. You would be hard-pressed to even see the back of IE2 although someone with an SR didn't have the wire in the front, it did exist in the back.
  9. Asmara

    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    A. Double check the wiring. I have a 2021 SR5 double cab. It it possible that the access cab (if that is what you have) is different. I might have that wiring diagram somewhere but I only saved the double cab diagrams when I accessed the TIS. B. Yes, you can draw from the same source without a...
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    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    Can't really tell anything from the photo but you would have a total of 3 relays. The two that are part of your Clazzio kit and one that is the OEM relay. @Athena32 posted above about a Clazzio install using this technique and may answer a PM.
  11. Asmara

    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    It depends on what the relays are doing. If you read through the thread, you will see that my harness uses the relays to control the wiring path to switch between low and high. Relays are more frequently used to switch high current loads that might burn up a switch. If you have a wiring...
  12. Asmara

    2022 Tacoma OR Interior LED Swap

    I embedded the link to a video at the right time to show you where the interior fuse box is (and where the dome light 7.5amp fuse is located). It looks like somebody else posted another version showing you the same. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAEkHB460Zg&t=80s
  13. Asmara

    2022 Tacoma OR Interior LED Swap

    The dome light fuse is 7.5amps according to the wiring diagram. You are also looking at the fuse box inside the truck on the drivers side, right?
  14. Asmara

    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    I removed the fused because I was using the factory fuse. You don't want redundant fusing because it makes troubleshooting really hard. You especially don't want fuses buried in your dash. Just use the factory fuse. I didn't have wiring similar to yours. It sounds like your 'on' should be on an...
  15. Asmara

    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    No. I didn't. When I was looking at the lighting, I realized that the defroster and mirror heaters were both orange so I figured it was more factory to leave them. I haven't cracked open the switches in a while but when I was playing with the blue LEDs, I bought them from www.KingbrightUSA.com...
  16. Asmara

    Sound of Rushing Air or Spraying Water when Turning Left

    Check to see if your condensate drain is plugged. It could be slightly plugged, and the centrifugal force of the turn is helping to free a build-up of water. The water would come out on the left side. I wouldn't think you could hear it though but maybe.
  17. Asmara

    Rear camera relocation while retaining tailgate auto lock/unlock

    I have the OEM camera and tailgate lock. Each has an independent plug in the gap between the tailgate and the bed. If you were just relocating the camera, you should have only had to unplug one of those for the extension cable. Maybe you knocked the other one for the tailgate lock loose?
  18. Asmara

    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    Mine was not Clazzio but rather an Amazon vendor. The way the circuit works is the switch controls a relay that doesn't work like you think a relay normally works. If you switch it to low, the relay passes +12v to both elements but wired in series. If you switch it to high, the relay passes +12v...
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    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    I would try and use a meter to see if you can find the two wires for the heater itself. I looked at some of the schematics and *I think* one of the wires might be for a temperature sensor. My interpretation is the sky blue (SB) wire and the White with black stripes wire (W-B) are the two that...
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    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    Look at where you plug in the relay. You should see the female portion (metal) of the connector in each of the four slots. If so, double check that the wiring is as expected at the connector. You should have one position that is always hot (from the fuse) and a second that is also hot but only...
  21. Asmara

    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    First figure out if the seat heater relay is wired up. It may not be. Or it may be partially wired up. Does your fuse box have a seat heater fuse? I'd start there because if the relay isn't wired, then you are looking at a completely different install.
  22. Asmara

    Help! 4WD Won't Engage

    It still sounds like an actuator issue. If you are confident that the dealer installed it correctly mechanically (and I assume they were more careful the second time), I would look at the electrical going to the actuator. Are the connections good and not corroded? Connector pins fully seater...
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    Help! 4WD Won't Engage

    One follow-up question, you said that the dealer can't replicate it. Does that mean the flashing indicator sometimes stops?
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    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    It depends on what they are for. I looked at the Clazzio page and they claim there are only two wires, hot and ground. Did they give you a wiring diagram? Otherwise, take a photo and I may be able to figure out what is going on.
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    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    As far as finding the diagrams, I paid for access to TIS and looked around the web. Now I don't remember what I got where but I'm attaching everything I saved for the project.
  26. Asmara

    Lighting Help

    That's kind of a dangerous question. Many times it depends on where in the harness you are trying to tap into the system so be careful. Wire colors are reused. It looks like you are messing with the taillights so I am assuming at the taillights or at least somewhere along the cabin area. I don't...
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    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    From the factory, it is a long continuous wire from the switches to the seats. There is a connector at the switches and two connectors (top, bottom) at the seats. I actually redid the wiring to add one more connector under the seats because I thought it would help with running the wires. In the...
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    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    I just bought a kit off of Amazon. Specifically this Water Carbon brand kit. Customer service was really good but they are in China and shipping is slow. I pulled the cloth covers off my seats and installed the heated seat pads. To be more specific, I removed the bottom seat cover and...
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    Solved Seat Heater (heated seats) installation using factory fuse and relay

    There are several threads on installing seat heaters aka heated seats but the ones I have seen, have you tap into the fuse box. I like to keep my installs looking stock so I decided to pull the wiring diagram and trace the seat heater wiring to see what I could find. It turned out that in my...
  30. Asmara

    Wire Junctions - Driver's Side Kick Panel Identified

    I'm working on a seat heater install (will post how I wire it later) and needed to ID the location of connector IE2. Between the similar nomenclature and the cold outside, I decided to photograph the connectors and identify them inside. Since I didn't see it anywhere else on the internet, I...
  31. Asmara

    Lower Dashboard Mod - thought it would be easy...

    The thread's a bit old, but I thought I would confirm that this worked for me. I put in a couple of switches for heated seats and was even able to move some of the existing switches. No need to take out the dash or center console. It only takes a couple of minutes to pull the radio and most of...
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    Botched Touch up Paint

    Unless something has changed recently, lacquer thinner will wipe touch up right off. It will not affect modern factory applied paint other than removing the wax.
  33. Asmara

    TRD Lift kit

    I've been researching TSS issues (millimeter-wave radar sensor) because I have seen so much information/misinformation on various sites and I want to make my own one-off TSS compatible grille. One interesting thing I found was that the TRD lift kit comes with a different TSS sensor...
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  35. Asmara

    2021+ Stock Radio - Am I missing something?

    I decided to subscribe to TIS for a couple of days because I needed some wire harness information as part of a seat heater install and I wanted to read more about the Radar (millimeter wave sensor) in front because I may create a custom grill. While using the TIS, I tried to find information on...
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    2021+ Stock Radio - Am I missing something?

    I have a 2021 with a stock radio that includes Android Auto and Car Play. For long trips, I use the Android Auto and it works fine. Unfortunately, you have to plug it in to use it. Once carsifi starts making a wifi adapter, I'll probably install that and use AA all the time. When I'm just...
  37. Asmara

    '17 under hood heat insulation and shock hood support

    I have the same ones. Easy to install and work great.
  38. Asmara

    Help! Where can I find these canopy clamps?

    There are a million different variations of the beefy clamp available on Amazon, but this looks like what is in your picture. I found them when I was looking for bed rail mounting points like these. I don't recall seeing anything like your first photo during my searching though.
  39. Asmara

    Tonneau cover

    I bought the Kikito Hard Tri-Fold Truck Bed Tonneau Cover from Amazon for just under $500. It doesn't leak unless I run it through a high-pressure car wash (and even then a few drops here and there), is super easy to install, folds up easily, and comes off quickly. My only concern is really...
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    Mystery Part - Where does this go?

    They look like the rubber blocks that were in the plastic clips on my tonneau cover that protected them from getting smashed during shipping.
  41. Asmara

    Tailgate Plate Bolts - Flush or not?

    I like the format and smaller community here so I always post something here before I head over to Tacoma World. Since I didn't get a response after a couple of days, I posted the same thing at Tacoma World and got a solution. My mistake was that I reassembled the plastic wrong. The inner...
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    Tailgate Plate Bolts - Flush or not?

    I removed my tailgate plate and installed a power tailgate lock. When I put everything together, I noticed that the bolts in the picture had a smooth part on the shaft and that this part was wider than the hole in the plastic on the tailgate plate. This causes the bolts to be raised off the...
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    Reference Ask a beginner question, get a serious answer!

    Temperature differential aka split. If your AC can lower the incoming air temp by 20 degrees, there will be a big difference between the temperature of the air coming from the vents if it is 100 degrees outside (and not using recirculate) vice recirculating the 80 degree interior air.
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    Detailing The Ultimate "Ask A Detailer" Thread

    Another question - One of my fenders has a hard, raised bit of paint on it (Toyota Super White). The size is very small - maybe the diameter of the end of a needle and .02mm high. What is the best way to fix this without damaging the paint surrounding it? I would ignore it but it is sharp and...
  45. Asmara

    Venting - FU Jiffy Lube

    I'm on a huge cross-country road trip (AZ, CA, OR, MT, UT, CO, TX . . . you get the idea ends in VA) in my 2021 Tacoma. Put more than 5,000 miles on it (from 12) in the past couple of weeks. Despite that the manual says I can wait for 10K to change the oil/filter, I decided I wanted to get it...
  46. Asmara

    Where can I make 80k a year?

    Join the foreign service. USG pension after 20 years, USG paid housing overseas and the overseas schools for kids are best in the world (paid by the USG). Lots of non-traditional 'diplomat' jobs that people don't know about. Diplomatic Couriers are hiring right now and you only need an...
  47. Asmara

    Brand new truck - didn't know about Toyota Care...What else?

    I bought a 2021 Tacoma from another country and had a relative pick it up for me a few weeks before I returned to the US. I've never bought a brand new car, I usually buy a 3-5 year Toyota (4runner) but with the market the way it is right now, new was a better deal. I saw a post that mentioned...
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    What have you done to, or with, your Tacoma today?

    Over the past three days - Installed Hard Tonneau cover Installed OEM power tailgate Installed retro accent stripes Installed tailgate accent letters Removed tailgate 4x4 and installed retro 4WD badge Installed Blackvue DR750X-2CH Plus Installed grocery net Installed Spiker Hood Struts
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    Detailing The Ultimate "Ask A Detailer" Thread

    What do you recommend for vinyl decals before applying and after applying? Brand new 2021 with 10 miles on it. I want to put a few accent stripes on the bed and grill.
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    YouTube channels and discussion

    Tool Reviews - Project Farm - Doesn't take advertising and builds awesome test jigs. He's super popular now but same videos. Tool Teardowns - Ave aka Skookum - Foul-mouthed but entertaining Canadian engineer completely dissects tools to show you how well (or not) they are made. Locks 1 - Lock...
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