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It's a time consuming job if you've never done it. The only special tool need is a pair of hog ring pliers to reattach the seat cover. You should remove the seat from the car. Then start cutting hog rings around the perimiter, pull the outside edges of seat cover up to reveal more hog rings down both sides of seat cover, running from fron to back. Cut these and the cover comes off. You don't have to remove the old heating element, but peel the backing off the new one and lay it over the top of the old one. Make sure the thermostat is properly positioned in it's plastic holder and under the element, and be carefull when reinstalling the seat cover that you don't cut and wires with the rings, and make sure the wiring and conector are routed the same way and tied down properly so they don't chafe on the metal seat frame. Just take your time and put everything back the way you found it, and you should be ok. I should tell you that we had a butcher working at our shop that eliminated the thermostat because the customer complained the seat wasn't getting warm enough, and the car caught fire a few weeks later. 54 hours in labor to fix it. parts came to about 3000.
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