How hot are your seat heaters?
 

My friend has an 06 jetta and his has a knob that puts them at 5 different settings and at the highest it will make your ass 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...

My firend has some. Lets just put it this way, they do the job.

i wouldnt know i never used mine haha

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.

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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oohhhh...maybe I'll change the thermostat...they only seem to get warm for ~5 minutes...mine do get warm though...they do the job

Yep, take the chill off.

okay, thats what i wanted to know thanks for the input. A girl i went out with a couple of times said she could feel it

I can imagine that last sentence might draw some attention :)

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.

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...8&d=1200526011

I wonder if it'd ever get hot enough to do permanent damage... anyone willing to bypass the thermostat and thermometer entirely?

I wouldn't do it.
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 ass!

Yeah, I put a seat heater in the passengers seat of a FC once, that didn't have a thermostat, and figured it didn't need one because whoever was sitting in it would notice if it was too warm.

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.

mine get pretty warm lol

My wife has a Passat with the 5-position seat heaters and we rarely run them past "3," even when visiting up north in winter. I prefer the thermostatic heaters in my 8.

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.

Mine get warm enough so that it is comfortable, no matter how cold it is.

Warm and toasty. So warm, after a while I have to turn 'em off.

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??

Ha Ha ha......................I've done that as well.

i never used them until it was real cold and my friend wanted them on. she turned them on and i didn't know until my ass was heating up.

Yes they work well.


I use them when i first get into my car after work ( i get out at midnight)

'cause they heat up much faster then the heater does

My friend didnt want to leave my car cuz of the seat warmers...she wants them on her car now

i was surprised at how warm my seats got! but never expected it to be like a tanning bed!

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 ass to be on fire. Not comftrable IMO.