Does the Nissan Kicks Have Heated Seats?

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Yes, the Nissan Kicks offers heated seats, but there’s a catch: you won’t find them standard across the board, and you can’t get them on every trim level. Nissan limits seat warmers to the mid-tier SV and top-tier SR trims, and on standard variants, the brand requires adding a $300 option called the Cold Weather Package. If you’re looking at the entry-level S trim, you’re out of luck; Nissan doesn’t wire the base trim for heated seats, meaning no factory option, port add-on, or dealer workaround will get them in an S.

This gap between available and standard equipment regularly catches used car buyers off guard. Two Kicks sitting side-by-side on a dealer lot can look completely identical from the outside, yet give you two entirely different experiences on a 20-degree January morning.

Which Trims Can Actually Get Heated Seats?

To get warm cushions, you have to target specific configurations:

• Kicks S: Not available under any circumstances.
• Kicks SV: Available through the Cold Weather Package.
• Kicks SR: Available through the Cold Weather Package.

Trim level matters more here than the feature list suggests. Even if an S trim comes equipped with the same sleek 12.3-inch touchscreen and Nissan Safety Shield 360 driver-assist suite as its siblings, it still leaves you sitting on a cold cushion every January morning.

It’s also worth noting that only the front buckets get heated elements. The Kicks seats five and features a split 60/40 folding second row, but back-seat passengers never get heated cushions.

Inside the Cold Weather Package

The Cold Weather Package is a bundle, not a single switch. Three items come with it, and the two that aren’t seats end up mattering more than most buyers expect:

• Heated front seats: Driver and front passenger.
• Heated outside mirrors: Clears frost and road spray.
• Rear floor heater ducts: Routes cabin warmth into second-row footwells.

That last item is surprisingly practical. Rear passengers don’t get heated cushions of their own; they get ducts under the front seats pushing warm air into the footwells because a cabin this size comes up to temperature faster than a three-row SUV does. 

Meanwhile, the heated mirrors are a huge win for anyone who has stood in a parking lot chipping ice off glass with a credit card.

Rock Creek Takes a Different Route

If you want standard winter features bundled into an all-wheel-drive (AWD) package, the Rock Creek edition takes a different path. Riding on the SV trim with AWD only, it bakes winter gear directly into its standard equipment list:

• Heated front seats: Included, not optioned.
• Heated mirrors and rear ducts: Same content as the standalone package.
• Heated steering wheel: TailorFit-wrapped, unique to this configuration.

Rock Creek adds plenty beyond the warm bits, including an off-road driving mode, hill descent control, a roof rack, and gloss black trim. If AWD was already on your shopping list and heated seats were too, this is the tidier route. The steering wheel comes wrapped and heated here, which otherwise requires stepping up to the SR trim’s Premium Package.

Pricing Breakdown

Getting into a heated Kicks isn’t expensive. An SV with front-wheel drive (FWD) plus the Cold Weather Package lands at $24,790 MSRP before destination fees, making it the cheapest way into a heated Kicks.

*MSRP excludes destination fees.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Are the rear seats heated?

A: No. The second row gets floor heater ducts instead, pushing warm air into the footwells.

Q: Can the entry-level trim add heated seats?

A: No. Heated seats aren’t offered on the S through any package, factory option, or dealer accessory.

Q: Does the heated steering wheel come with them?

A: Not in the Cold Weather Package. It arrives with the SR Premium Package or with the Rock Creek edition.

Q: Do you need all-wheel drive to get heated seats?

A: No, unless you choose the Rock Creek route, which is AWD only. The standalone package works fine on front-wheel-drive SV and SR builds.