Remote Start, Heated Seats, Block Heaters: 2026–2027 Trim Guide

Anyone shopping from Fargo to Wichita eventually asks the same three questions: which Jeep trims have a heated steering wheel, whether a Ram 1500 comes with a block heater, and whether remote start is standard on a Wrangler. The short versions, straight from the manufacturer's feature charts: on the 2026 Wrangler a heated wheel is standard only on the Sahara and Moab 392, comes through a package on Sport S and Rubicon, and is not offered on Sport. The Ram 1500 chart has no block heater row in either 2026 or 2027. Remote start follows the same pattern: standard on Sahara and Moab 392, a package item on Sport S and Rubicon.

Block heaters turn out to be the rarest item of the three. Across every 2026 and 2027 chart in the research data, a block heater is listed on only two nameplates, covered in the first table below. Everything here comes from two feeds, and they do not always agree, so where they differ the text says so.

How to read the codes

The feature charts mark each trim with a letter. S means standard, O means optional, P means the item arrives as part of a package, O/P means the chart prints both, optional on its own or as part of a package, and NA means not available on that trim. A second feed, the per-configuration specs, simply says Yes or None for each factory build. A "configuration" is one specific cab, drive and trim build, so a trim can show Yes in some builds and not others.

Coverage has gaps. There are no 2026 or 2027 feature charts for the Grand Cherokee, Compass, Cherokee or Wagoneer S, and the Wrangler and Gladiator charts stop at 2026. For those models only the second feed applies.

Block heaters and cold-weather groups

Context for Ram buyers: the 1500 chart last carried a block heater row in 2019, a Cold Weather Group tied to the 3.0‑liter diesel. The 2500 and 3500 charts last carried one in 2022. A missing row is not proof the truck cannot be fitted with one, only that the manufacturer's charts for these years do not mention it.

Heated seats, heated wheel and remote start: Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler charts

The Wrangler and Gladiator codes come from a Convenience Group. On the Wrangler its text names heated front seats, a heated wheel, remote start and a garage door opener. On the Gladiator the Rubicon and Mojave version of the group names heated seats, wheel and remote start. The Sport and Willys version of the group lists heated seats and wheel but its text does not mention remote start, even though the chart codes remote start as a package item for those trims. The Durango's 2026 chart carries the same first-row result on every column, and its second-row heat is S on GT Plus, GT HEMI Plus, GT HEMI Premium and the R/T 392 and SRT columns.

The Charger is the thinnest case. In the 2027 gas Sixpack chart remote start is S on all four columns (R/T, R/T Plus, Scat Pack, Scat Pack Plus). A heated steering wheel is S on three of them and P on the base R/T, through the Driver Convenience Group, which also lists heated performance seats. The electric Daytona chart lists "remote cabin conditioning" as S, a different feature from key-fob remote start, and shows heated seats only inside the Carbon & Suede and Track packages.

Ram charts: the heat lives inside equipment groups

The Ram 1500 and heavy-duty charts do not have stand-alone heated-seat or remote-start rows. Those items appear only inside the text of named equipment groups, so read the codes as "the group is O on that trim."

The 2026 Ram 1500 and heavy-duty charts name the same groups with the same codes. The 1500 chart lists no group for Longhorn, Limited or Tungsten that mentions these items, which is a gap in the chart, not a sign those trims lack them: the other feed shows heat on all three, below.

What the 2027 configuration data says

This second feed lists every 2027 Build & Price configuration for the models in the table below. It has rows for heated front seats, rear heated seats and key-fob remote start, but no heated-wheel or block heater rows.

Here are three places where the two feeds clash, which the research data does not resolve. The 2026 Wrangler chart lists remote start as a package item on Sport S and Rubicon, but the 2027 Sport S builds show no heated seats or key-fob remote start, and the 2027 Rubicon builds show heated seats but no remote start. The Durango chart shows heated second-row seats as standard on six trims while the configuration rows list them on the two SRT builds only. And the configuration rows list every 1500 build with key-fob remote start, while the chart ties remote start to the Rebel Level 2 group. The charts describe what each trim can be ordered with; the configuration rows describe specific builds. When the two differ, trust neither on its own for a trim you plan to buy.

What this means for a January commute

A trim that lists heated seats and a heated wheel as standard saves hunting for a package on the lot. On the lower Wrangler and Gladiator trims the winter items sit behind a Convenience Group, so the useful question is whether the specific vehicle you are looking at was built with that group. The 2027 Ram 1500 builds from Tradesman through Lone Star, plus Warlock and Rumble Bee, list no heated seats in the configuration data, so heat on those trims shows up only as the optional groups in the chart. Block-heater shoppers have the shortest list: Pacifica (gas trims in the 2026 chart, all four trims in 2027) and the diesel Cold Weather Group on the chassis cabs.

How to check your own vehicle

Enter a VIN into the VIN decoder to see which build you are looking at, then open the model-year page linked in the tables for the full feature chart and every configuration. The spec explorer lets you compare two builds side by side, which is the quickest way to see whether a trim actually carries the items you care about.