How hot are your seat heaters?
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How hot are your seat heaters?
My friend has an 06 jetta and his has a **** that puts them at 5 different settings and at the highest it will make your *** and back start to sweat. It never seems like the ones in mine get that hot. Today i had the car warming up for like 15 minutes before i got in it and the seat was not that warm just barely warmer than the passenger seat where the heater was not on. Just curious how hot every one elses were, started thinking about it now that it is actually getting cold in TN. I searched around but did not find anything as focused as this. I can never be sure if the heaters are heating up the seat or my body temp...
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They don't really do all that much. They just kind of take the chill off and they cycle on and off by themselves anyway. It's just to give some form of small comfort that's all. It was weak attempt in my opinion.
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They only come on when the seat is quite cold, then they cycle off at about 80*F.
Sometimes they never come back on. The thermostat is towards the rear of the seat cushion, if you want to modify it.....
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Sometimes they never come back on. The thermostat is towards the rear of the seat cushion, if you want to modify it.....
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Thermostat referenced is located in the seat. Each seat has one and it isn't regulated by any heater setting or any other switch you can control(except for it's on/off). All this thermostat does is take the measurement from the thermometer(also in the seat) and opens(or stops the current) in the circuit when the temp threshold is reached. It will then start flowing the current again when it cools down and reaches it's lower threshold. You cannot control it..........nor does someone have to be in the seat. The below is taken from part of the procedure used to troubleshoot it.
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I'm sure you can bypass and either the heating element will burn up, or.................you will begin to melt the foam inside the seat, catch it on fire, and burn your ***!
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Then the switch got bumped on one day, and I didn't notice it overheating until it melted through the cloth seat cover and smoke filled the interior.
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Mine get pretty damn warm and cozy. Sometimes it almost feels too warm (if I'm not wearing a jacket that covers my lower back/butt a little, for instance) and I actually have to turn it off. I am very satisfied with my seat heaters though.
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The seats get just hot enough that I can tell that I've accidentally hit The G'damn switch yet again in the middle of summer!!!! What the hell were they thinking on the location of the switches??
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My seats get warm but not to hot. I barely use them as it is but when I do they work as good as I need them to. My sister has a Jetta and going on the 3rd setting is like asking for your *** to be on fire. Not comftrable IMO.