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Heated Car Seat Covers - 12V Seat Warmer Pads For Cars and Trucks

Updated on July 3, 2013

Find The Best Heated Seat Pad For Your Vehicle

There's nothing worse than getting into your car on a freezing cold day and sitting there shivering whilst you wait for the heater to kick in. If you're one of the 'lucky' ones with leather or vinyl seats then you'll know how sitting down on these can be quite an unpleasant shock each morning as they can feel like sitting on an ice block until they warm up. Heated car seat covers are designed to slip over most vehicle seats to provide a warm cushioned surface which starts to provide warmth immediately and doesn't shock you with cramping coldness when you sit down. These cushioned car seat warming pads plug into your 12V port to provide almost instant warmth, some reaching their maximum temperature in less than two minutes, without having to wait for the engine to warm up before your heater can kick in.

Once you've experienced the unmitigated joy of settling into a car with a heated seat cover on a cold winter's day you'll never be without one again. Vehicle manufacturers charge a pretty penny for built in heated butt warmers in new cars and if yours never came with the option, installing aftermarket seat warmers can be time consuming if you do it yourself and expensive too, more so if you choose have them professionally installed. If your car didn't come with pre-installed butt warming pads, then heatable car seat covers can be a godsend during those cold winter months.

Heated seat cushions for cars and automobiles can also negate the need for investing in a remote started kit if your main reason for buying one is to get the engine warmed up so you can get the heater on fast once you leave the house. Remote starters are nice, but can be expensive to install which for most of us, is the way we have to go rather than fiddle around with complicated automobile electronics. A car seat warmer starts to provide warmth the moment you plug it in with a good model reaching its full temperature in less than 2 minutes flat, far faster than your vehicle's heater and it'll save you gas too which would otherwise be burned whilst the vehicle sits idling.

People don't just buy heated car seat cushions for warmth in winter however, as one of their major uses is to provide relief for the aching joints and muscles which typically accompany long periods behind the wheel or stuck in the passenger seat of any motor vehicle. If you travel a lot, or just suffer from back and muscle pain in general, then a 12V car seat cover which heats up is exactly what you need to sooth away the aches and pains of a road trip.

Recommended Heated Car Seat Cushions

A good heated car seat cushion cover will provide you many long years of additional warmth right where you need it. A great one, also features a massage function to really loosen up you back muscles on those long car journeys. You can buy a decent cheap heated car seat pad for under $20 which will provide the basic heating function. For a little more padding, a decent heated car seat cover will run you $20 - $40 if you want more luxurious softness and once you start looking into massaging heated seat covers then it's $50+ per pad.

As ever, there are some real bargains to be found if you know where to look and also some over-priced turkeys too if you don't. The following heated car seat warmers and heatable automobile seat covers are some of the best rated and best value on the market today.

Wagan 4-Way 12V Automotive Socket Splitter and Extender, Cigarette Power Splitter
Wagan 4-Way 12V Automotive Socket Splitter and Extender, Cigarette Power Splitter
Car seat warming pads use the 12V cigarette lighter to provide power to create heat. This is great but what if you use it for other things like charging your cell phone, or want to use a seat warming cushion for both driver AND passenger seat? That's where you need a cigarette lighter splitter plug which will allow you plug multiple devices into a single 12V port.
 
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