5th Gen Heated Steering Wheel Wiring Question

[Waterfowler41]

My new steering wheel is finally in route after several months of waiting!!! The new wheel comes with 4 wires for the heating element, a positive, a negative, and two control wires according to the manufacturer. My factory Rebel wheel has heating so all the wiring is there.

In all the videos I've watched I see the factory heating element also uses 4 wires (2 plugs on the bottom right and left side of the wheel with 2 wires in each plug. I presume one is for the control wires and the other the power/ground) so it should be easy to line up the wires and install once I can identify them.

That said, does anyone have any info on the wiring colors for those wires so I can identify which one does what?

 

[Waterfowler41]

NM, I found them here: Mopar Connection Repair Kit

Here the white connector (looks like these are the power and ground equivalents):


And here is the black connector (control wires):

 

[VP500]

I also have an aftermarket steering wheel with heat and leds.

@Waterfowler41 - I’ve extensively watched your YouTube install video. My aftermarket steering wheel actually came with plugs that directly connected into both heat (pwr/grd; black/black) steering wheel harnesses. No modification needed!

However the LED strip is giving me problems. My voltmeter could be faulty but it’s producing 4volts from the heat (pwr/grd) harness so that didn’t seem feasible.

I’ll try to make sense here. I next then connected it the horn harness. The aftermarket LED strip gives me two power and one ground. I was able to connect both power leads to the horn harness as they both combined seem to produce 12v (could be wrong) however I cannot find a suitable ground.

Where the hell do I ground in the steering wheel? Lol

 

[VP500]

Here is an example of the steering wheel I ordered. You’ll notice the led strip has a red, blue and black wire.

Matte Carbon Fiber Heat Led Steering Wheel For ram trx 1500 2019 2020 2021 2022 | eBay

Item Type: LED Carbon Fiber Steering Wheel. 1 x LED Carbon Fiber Steering Wheel. Material: carbon fiber, perforated leather. Upgrading Car Steering Wheel System. LED shift Light and LCD display: Yes. (not people-destroyed), then we will replace a new one to you.

www.ebay.com

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[Waterfowler41]

Here is an example of the steering wheel I ordered. You’ll notice the led strip has a red, blue and black wire.

Matte Carbon Fiber Heat Led Steering Wheel For ram trx 1500 2019 2020 2021 2022 | eBay

Item Type: LED Carbon Fiber Steering Wheel. 1 x LED Carbon Fiber Steering Wheel. Material: carbon fiber, perforated leather. Upgrading Car Steering Wheel System. LED shift Light and LCD display: Yes. (not people-destroyed), then we will replace a new one to you.

www.ebay.com

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Maybe you can use one of the heated steering wheel grounds or make your own by tapping into the metal steering wheel structure.

Sorry couldn’t help more.