Has anyone had experience replacing the elements in heated seats and if so any tips or links? Also want to recover the seats but I'm told that they use a heavy vinyl instead of leather now. I believe that the seats have to come out of the vehicle to do either job.

 

To recover them I'm sure they'd have to come out & probably as well for the heating. have you tried Google for ideas, places?

 

You mean the leather seats aren't actually leather, but vinyl?

 

The seating surfaces are leather, but quite a bit of the surrounding areas are not.