AC/Heater Heated Leather Seats

[jaydh]

I saw an old post to a similar problem but I thought I would start a new topic.

Had the car a couple of weeks now and tried the heated seats in the hi and low settings, ive read the manual and know the correct operation of this. Although, from reading the manual, i assume that when you heat up the seat in the Hi mode and then switch to Low, it should stay warm, but ours doesnt, it cools down a lot. So how do you get it to stay warm?

Ive tried, Hi, Hi and switched to Low, Low, Low and switched to Hi. Which ever combination the seat cools down to a barely noticable temperature.

Jay

[Spud]

I switch it to high and then to low after 5 minutes or so - it always seems to stay warmish - but then again we havn't had a realy cold morning in Cork yet.

I'd get it cheked out if it actually seems just to go from hot down to just body temperature.

[jaydh]

I switch it to Low after 5-10mins (or whenever its at its hotest as thats the temp i like) but then it just cools down.

[bucketp]

I thought if you left it on high it got hot then switched off and stayed warm switching back on if needed,works on a thermostat , but when on low it stays the same temp (warm) all the time.

[minisweeper]

I tend to leave mine on Hi pretty much all the time and the temperature seems to vary quite considerably from boiling hot to luke warm. I had wondered about getting it checked out but I wasn't sure if it's just me being subjective...

[Brodick]

Originally Posted by bucketp

I thought if you left it on high it got hot then switched off and stayed warm switching back on if needed,works on a thermostat , but when on low it stays the same temp (warm) all the time.

Correct that is how it works
if you have the heater on high the seats get quite hot for a while then switch off an cool to a set temp then turn back on again
if you have the seats on Lo the seats will be warm and keep the same temp until you switch them off

Have to say we find that they work well

[jaydh]

Originally Posted by Brodick

Correct that is how it works
if you have the heater on high the seats get quite hot for a while then switch off an cool to a set temp then turn back on again
if you have the seats on Lo the seats will be warm and keep the same temp until you switch them off

Have to say we find that they work well

they work well if u dont like the seats too hot, but i do, none of this luke warm temp for me. seems its just an idiosyncrasy of the civic, shame

[minisweeper]

Well yeah. Occasionally my seats do reach a temperature where I almost want them to cool down cause I can really feel the heat, but not very often. And if they did reach such a temperature then I'd be happy just to turn them off/down.
The Golf has a 1-9 scale on the seats which i think seems a better idea.
Might get them to look at them at the service.

[jaydh]

Originally Posted by minisweeper

Well yeah. Occasionally my seats do reach a temperature where I almost want them to cool down cause I can really feel the heat, but not very often. And if they did reach such a temperature then I'd be happy just to turn them off/down.
The Golf has a 1-9 scale on the seats which i think seems a better idea.
Might get them to look at them at the service.

the scale does sound the best idea, or to have a hi setting thats quite warm constantly and a low which is a little warm constantly