TerryH
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- Springdale, AR
- Ram Year
- 2017 Ram 3500
- Engine
- 6.7 turbo
Unfortunately your setup is unable to communicate with your truck's CAN system. The heated/vented seats with remote start feature doesn't just have another wire that triggers via remote start. It's actually controlled through the trucks CAN system through the exterior temp sensor and then through the heated seat module. In the factory configuration the heated seats won't turn on automatically unless the temp is °40 or less and the vented seats will automatically come on if the temp is °80 or higher. There is no way that we have found to change this setting with the Alfa tool so you wouldn't be able to set them to automatically come on every time you remote started the truck even if there was a dedicated wire that you could tap into.
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Thanks. I'm searching for something else that activates with the remote start to tap into. My truck has aftermarket headlights with DRL's. Since the DRL's come on with the remote start and are obviously on anytime the truck is running do you think would it be plausible to tap into the DRL circuit and trigger a relay to power the seat heaters? I'd still use the aftermarket switch that came with the Katzkin heaters so they wouldn't be on all the time. My thought process is that if I leave that switch on when I get out of the truck then the DRL circuit could trigger the relays so the seats would in turn then have power when the remote start is activated.
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