Infrared pics of heated steering wheel and driver's seat (2024 Lightning Flash)

WildBlue · Monday at 9:28 AM

I recently bought a low-cost handheld infrared camera and decided to see what our heated steering wheel and seat look like. This is a lower-cost model, so the pictures are fairly low resolution and somewhat grainy, but it is still quite interesting to see.

Ford F-150 Lightning Infrared pics of heated steering wheel and driver's seat (2024 Lightning Flash) IR20251020081550

Zoomed out steering wheel. Looks like the power is delivered on the lower right-hand spoke.

Ford F-150 Lightning Infrared pics of heated steering wheel and driver's seat (2024 Lightning Flash) IR20251020081624

Driver's seat bottom:

Ford F-150 Lightning Infrared pics of heated steering wheel and driver's seat (2024 Lightning Flash) IR20251020081558

Driver's seat back:

Ford F-150 Lightning Infrared pics of heated steering wheel and driver's seat (2024 Lightning Flash) IR20251020081604

K6CCC · Monday at 11:38 AM

Interesting to see that. I don't have a thermal camera, but a friend had a rather nice Flir camera that I have used a few times for similar projects - usually looking at electronic equipment.

jimfigler · Tuesday at 7:27 AM

amazing

MaintGrl · Tuesday at 8:29 AM

Ya, while I was working, at the plant, we had a NICE FLIR for breakers, MCC, Heaters. I brought it home one weekend and on a cool morning scanned the outside of my home, was very interesting to see where the heat was leaking from....

WXman · Tuesday at 9:21 AM

Easy to see why it is that heated seats usually don't last forever. All the flexing cycles from having human butts in and out of the seat all the time eventually breaks one of those elements and then it disables the entire grid.

Cool pics bro!

MountainAlive · Tuesday at 9:48 AM

Looks like that seat might have appendicitis

Bestword57 · Tuesday at 11:05 AM

Looks like an X-Ray of an aliens spine.

3rdgenfan · Tuesday at 11:07 AM

My only way to get a heated wheel is to just breathe on it in the winter

Nice to see it's basically the whole wheel instead of certain areas, though!

K6CCC · Tuesday at 2:47 PM

3rdgenfan said:
Nice to see it's basically the whole wheel instead of certain areas, though!

Yep, pretty much the entire wheel and it heats up very quickly. OK, I'm in southern California so we don't really get COLD, but it sure is nice. First car I have had with a heated wheel and seats.

3rdgenfan · Tuesday at 7:19 PM

K6CCC said:
Yep, pretty much the entire wheel and it heats up very quickly. OK, I'm in southern California so we don't really get COLD, but it sure is nice. First car I have had with a heated wheel and seats.

I was going to swap the heated wheel over on my truck a year or two ago but then got side tracked by some deals the leftover trucks were getting, only to get cold feet.

Shmoe · Tuesday at 7:26 PM

3rdgenfan said:
I was going to swap the heated wheel over on my truck a year or two ago but then got side tracked by some deals the leftover trucks were getting, only to get cold feet.

Sounds like you might want heated floorboards for those feet instead!

Brent@ANParts · 2025-10-22T19:07:48-0700

I feel warmer just looking at that!

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