Heated snowmobile gear, layer by layer

Every figure comes from the product's own page.

Cords and adapters are sold separately unless a row says included. Each garment's page has a wiring table that lists what your setup needs.

Why build layers instead of buying a heated suit

We do not sell a heated snowmobile suit; we sell the layers above, which work with the shell you already trust. You keep your own jacket, bib or pants and boots, and add heat only where you get cold. For the non-heated side (helmet, goggles, boots, outer layers), our snowmobile gear checklist covers it.

Start at the core: a heated jacket liner or heated vest

Both core layers use ZEPTO heating fibres and go over a T-shirt and under your winter jacket. The jacket liner has sleeves with ribbed cuffs and hideaway glove plugs at each cuff. On a Dual Temperature Controller gloves need no extra wiring; on a Single Temperature Controller or switch cord, the glove pages add the Male Coax to Dual Female Coax Adapter. Do not run the jacket liner with gloves or glove liners from one ZR8 battery: by the battery manual's figures they draw about 8.5 A and 8.2 A, over its 8 A maximum. The vest liner heats the same areas with no sleeves and a lower draw; gloves connect through a harness behind the shoulders. Snowmobile heated jacket or heated snowmobile vest, our guide to the heated vest vs heated jacket liner goes through it in detail.

Heated snowmobile gloves: gloves or liners

The Gen-X4 Heated Gloves are drum-dyed leather with an extra-long gauntlet, a waterproof, breathable PORELLE insert and a squeegee on the left thumb for your visor. The Knuckle Armor Heated Gloves add high-impact TPU knuckle protection and Primaloft Silver 80g insulation, a touchscreen-compatible index finger and a cuff made to fit under your jacket sleeve, with a listed maximum heat of 57°C (135°F).

Happy with your own snowmobile gloves or mitts? The Gen-X4 Heated Glove Liners go underneath, under a waterproof glove as their page recommends. Our guide to heated gloves vs heated glove liners compares the two.

Heated snowmobile boots: socks, insoles and leg chaps

You do not need special heated snowmobile boots; add the heat to the boots you have. The Gen-X4 Heated Socks cover most of the calf and heat under and above the toes. The Gen-X4 Heated Insoles have a carbon fibre element across the whole foot and can be trimmed with scissors to fit your boot. They do not suit women's shoe sizes under US 7.5 or men's under US 6.5 (choose the socks). Our heated insoles vs heated socks guide helps you pick.

The Gen-X4 Heated Leg Chaps heat the front and sides of both legs, with thermal insulation and windproof, water-resistant fabric. Heated socks or insoles plug into hideaway plugs at the bottom of each leg. They are not a base layer and must not touch your skin. If you will plug socks into them, the page says to go one size down in the chaps.

The seat pad and the heated visor

The Heated Seat Pad straps onto most snowmobile seats with adjustable webbing, and its 20 inch battery cord has an on/off switch and a 5 amp fuse. Owners say it gets hot; a Single Temperature Controller (sold separately) fine-tunes it. It runs on its own cord to the battery; to join it to your heated clothing, its page asks you to contact us. Pad or built-in heater? Read our heated seat pad vs seat heater kit guide.

If your helmet has a heated visor with an RCA-style plug, the Universal Electric Shield Power Cord runs it from your sled's battery on its own lead, with a built-in 10 amp fuse. Sharing a sled's RCA visor outlet with heated clothing? Read the first question below first.

Powering heated snowmobile clothing from your sled or a battery

Our heated clothing FAQ explains the wiring step by step, and each heated garment's page has a table of which cord fits which setup. On a sled, three things matter:

• Add up the amps. The Dual Temperature Controller runs up to four garments at two separate temperatures, as long as everything together stays under 15 amps. The Single Temperature Controller runs up to four at one temperature, under 12 amps. A jacket liner, gloves, chaps and insoles total 13.1 amps: over the single's limit, under the dual's. No one wiring table shows that exact set, so ask us to confirm it, and never exceed a controller's garment or amp limit.
• Check what your sled can carry. An outlet's shape does not tell you what it can run. Confirm in your owner's manual or with your dealer that the outlet or battery feed is 12V, fused, and can carry everything together, with room for the sled's own hand and thumb warmers. The Coax Battery Cord connects to the battery with a built-in 15 amp fuse. A running engine is not a guarantee the battery is charging (that can depend on engine speed and other loads), so check your manual. Switch your gear off when you stop.
• Off the sled, use a portable battery. The ZR5 and ZR8 Portable Battery Kits have three heat levels. Keep the total draw within the battery's maximum: 5.2 A for the ZR5 and 8 A for the ZR8. By the manuals' figures, the vest liner with any second piece is over the ZR5's limit, and the jacket liner with gloves or glove liners is over the ZR8's; our battery life guide lists each piece's draw. Gloves alone need the Y-Glove-Cord for ZR5 & ZR8 Batteries; more than one piece needs the Male Coax to Dual Female Coax Adapter, as the pages state. The temperature controllers are not used with them.

Where to start

• Hands and feet only: heated gloves or glove liners plus socks or insoles, with a Dual Temperature Controller plus the Coax Battery Cord, the Y-switch-cord for Heated Gloves & Glove Liners and the Y-switch-cord for Heated Socks/Insoles (a common setup, the glove pages say).
• Cold core on long trail days: a jacket liner and a Dual Temperature Controller; add gloves later.
• The full system: a jacket liner on a Dual Temperature Controller, gloves at the cuffs, chaps on the jacket and socks or insoles on the chaps. That is four garments, the controller's limit, so ask us to confirm the wiring. The seat pad and visor cord stay on their own battery cords, as their pages describe, and add to your sled's load.
• Passenger or off-sled use: a vest or jacket liner on a portable battery kit.

You can see every piece in our heated clothing collection.

Questions riders ask us

Can I plug heated socks or insoles into my sled's visor outlet?

Possibly, but a plug that fits is not the test. First confirm in your owner's manual that the outlet is 12V, fused, and can carry your visor and the insoles together; some sled outlets are not fused. If it can, the insoles page lists the Male RCA to Female Coax & Female RCA Adapter plus the Y-switch-cord for Heated Socks/Insoles, and the spare RCA output keeps your visor running. The socks page lists no RCA setup, so ask us about socks.

How do I adjust the heat on gloves I run on their own?

Use the Coax Battery Cord with the Y-cord with Temperature Controller for Heated Gloves & Heated Glove Liners. Plugged into a jacket liner, they follow your controller instead.

My passenger has a boot outlet on the sled. Will your gear plug in?

Our heated clothing uses 5.5 mm coax connectors. Send us the sled's model and year or a photo of the outlet, and we will confirm the adapter, if any.