Heated functions - heated wipers, heated steering, heated seats - have become quite popular with modern motorists. They are actually all new cars. Among such options, the steering wheel is particularly common. Owners of domestic cars can also establish such a device. It can be purchased in specialized stores. However, who wanted to save their own funds may well build heated steering on their own, which will be discussed in this article.

Heated steering, what are the advantages of the helm with heating

The heating device consists of a specialized thermal conducting wire, similar to one that stands in the rear window.

On the limbs of the wire are located terminals, which are closed on the onboard network of the vehicle itself. In this design, the regulator is sometimes added to control the degree of heating and the ability to set the desired temperature, however, as a rule, heating is standard everywhere.

First of all, heated steering is needed for comfort, much more pleasant in the cold season to put hands on a warm steering wheel. In addition, the heated steering wheel is established with security reasons. Do not steer in warm gloves, especially woolen, as they will slide their arms, which may well lead to an emergency on the road.

Tools assistants

Whatever the installation of the steering wheel was crowned with success, you need to stock the necessary tools:

1. Directly the steering wheel itself - you can buy a used steering wheel, so that it would not damage the built-in if the work will be unsuccessful.
2. For the steering heating, you can use a heating wire and a thermoser, which will help to avoid overheating.
3. A rather sharp stationery knife.
4. Needles and insulating tape, which serves as a retainer.
5. Glue.
6. Pastatic sealant.

Heated steering wheel with her own hands, step by step instructions

1. First you need to carefully dismantle the steering wheel.
2. Then, with the help of a good marker or felt-meter, mark the places of future slides, where you will lay the heating element. Observe a small one-sided bias between the lines, the interval between the spirals is two or three centimeters.
3. With the help of a stationery knife, make slots in pre-marked areas.
4. To ensure the density of fastening the heating element in the grooves, it is necessary to glue it very much and everywhere. In the rotary areas, fixation is carried out with the help of insulating tape and needles. Upon final drying of glue, carefully remove the tape.
5. After laying the wire into the slots, it is necessary to carry out their sealing. Such a procedure, in fact, resembles the shtlack.
6. Now it is necessary to wear a lining on the steering wheel. It is easiest to use the skin to create such a lining. You should choose a cardboard pattern in advance that is suitable for a specific steering wheel. It will be from several separate parts. Then the resulting leather pieces must be neatly sehered among themselves, apply to the steering wheel and with maximum caution to sew certain types of seams from the inside of the steering wheel. These seams should ensure the density of the fiction of the material.
7. The same steering steering should be carried out only after all the items described above.

How to connect heated, step by step instructions for connecting

1. Initially, it is necessary to think through, with what will be adjusted to turn on and off the heating function. For this purpose, the compact steering button is best suited, which will work on the basis of only two contacts. It can be mounted in the lower wheel of the steering column. This place is easy to use and imperceptibility. To make the procedure correctly, you need to use the stencil. On it, the cutout configuration will be defined on the steering pad.
2. To identify the places where Plus and Minus will be located, you will need two copper rings, the thickness of which should not exceed one and a half millimeters.
3. To the rings of the wire are connected with a soldering iron, and the connection to the battery is carried out through the relay. Activate it when the ignition is turned on.
4. Rings are fixed on a spiral cable in the steering hub using double-sided adhesive tape.
5. The epoxy glue is thick between rings interferes with the occurrence of closure.
6. One of the contacts leaves on the plus, the component from the steering shaft can serve as a minus contact.
7. In the steering wheel it is necessary to drill the minimum hole in which one more contact is mounted. It should be located directly opposite the rings of copper.
8. Now fully isolate all contacts to avoid contact with the wheel.
9. Then mount the spring, which will ensure the dense contact of the contact and rings. To do this, you can apply a thin plate. One side of such a plate will be attached to contact, and the second - firmly pressing the steering wheel.
10. At the end, the device is installed on the place of its constant location.

Tips of professionals

In fact, the process of creating a heated steering is simple and is available for each thirsty motorist who has no opportunity or does not want to spend its own funds for the purchase of a professional device.

During active work, the resulting mechanism works quite well, the steering wheel heats up rather quickly, and the heat is extremely distributed over all areas. The use of such a device is an excellent solution for people who are constantly freezing.

To date, even the most famous manufacturers do not provide for the function of adaptive climate control on the steering wheel. However, such a question has been considered for quite a long time. Because, if in the winter hands are desperately frown, then in the hot season, the palms will almost instantly sweat. There is an opinion that this function is very soon, it will still appear in the automotive market, which we look forward to.