Floor Heat

[PMcCall]

I was wondering what others are experiencing with their floor heat. I have a 2014 2500 laramie. When I set the climate controls to full floor, I barely feel anything and I am sick of having cold feet I looked under the drivers side dash and didnt see an obvious vent/duct. I could feel some warm air when I had the blower set on 7 but not as much as I would expect with the noise level from the blower.

I looked under the passenger side dash and there is a cover under the dash that greatly inhibits the airflow, no vents in it at all! I pulled it down a bit and there was tons of hot air coming out. I am wondering it I am missing a piece of duct work or if something isn't as it should be. The hot air is clearly there, but its not coming out from under the dash.

thoughts?

 

[JSoloman]

Mine does the same thing. I figure it's the console blocking it.

 

[PMcCall]

I have the bench seats and no console. I guess its just a bad HVAC design. I commented on it on my customer survey with RAM.

 

[Kirwin]

I've noticed the same thing. I just turn up the seat and steering wheel! I was thinking that maybe it was going to the back through the ducts under the seat. I'll have to look into it further. Ken Irwin

 

[seafish]

First I would go to the dealer to make sure that all is operating normally...if they did not resolve the problem, I would cut 2" or 3" diameter opening with a holesaw into the duct work and put a soffit vent louver in it-- if it does not work well, you could always glue some abs plastic over the hole you made and be back at square one.

 

[RKerner]

Mine does the same thing. The extra underdash cover thing gets in the way of the air flow on the passemger side and so both the floor carpets stick up and impede heater airflow. I glued my carpet to the floot matting and took off the underdash cover and now my feet get plenty warm.

On another note, does anyone have cold air coming out of the steering column? My shift lever and turn signal stalk stay icy cold and the outsides of my legs stay cold on -20F and lower days even after 15-20 minutes of driving.

 

[mpaulson]

I too think that it doesn't blow very good. I have had the drivers side covers off while running wires and the vent is about a 1/2" wide by about 5" long slot roughly from what I can remember. I have to put the heat on full floor only to notice the heat as well. On the positive, I may not have to put duct tape on the passengers side in the summer so my wife's little feet don't get too cold from the a/c while I'm seating on my side. I had to tape the floor duct on the 07 for summer for her for this reason.
If you don't have passengers in the back seat regularly, maybe try and put duct tape over the vents that are under the front seats which would force more air through the front floor vents. I'm sure they are on the same duct.

 

[TimothyLong]

After reading this thread, I noticed this morning that I'm not getting very good floor heat either. I will have to take a look at that once the weather breaks a little.

 

[mwilson]

So you guys are driving with cold feet in a $50,000.00 plus truck???

I guess that little feature was overlooked when the cold weather testing was going on.

I am a RAM fan and have a dooryard full of Chrysler products so I feel qualified in making the statement that Chrysler should send some headhunters over to GM or Ford and steal some HVAC engineers. Seriously.

Interior HVAC is not one of Chrysler's strong points.

Mike.

 

[DonFitzwater]

X2 on that Mike. My 2010 has an annoying "feature" that keeps all the windows and windshield frost free on the inside EXCEPT directly in front of me! Floor heat is good in my rig though so not sure what the heck they did his time.

 

[PMcCall]

The airflow is great in every other setting other than floor so the blower is adequate, its just directing the airflow... That shoudn't be difficult!

 

[rrnut-2]

Mine does the same thing. What I have found is this. I turned up my side of the truck to 80 degs and not much of anything happened. Leaving my side at 80, I turned up the passenger side to 80 and all of a sudden I had Heat.
Other than that, my feet would freeze.

 

[EDankievitch]

My 2012 had awesome heat this 2013 not so much. Well can't have everything... But your all right some one missed the mark on how the ducting is routed, or maybe there is a part of the ducting missing on trucks with the consol?

 

[PMcCall]

My 2012 had awesome heat this 2013 not so much. Well can't have everything... But your all right some one missed the mark on how the ducting is routed, or maybe there is a part of the ducting missing on trucks with the consol?

I dont have a console so thats not it There has to be dampeners in the ducts to direct the airflow, maybe one of the has an issue or something?

 

[MelvinPierce]

My feet get cold easily. My feet were fine at -30F actual.

 

[JSoloman]

Since this topic came up, I decided to block off the back seat floor heat. Made all the difference moving the heat up front. Too bad this ducting doesn't have a louver or shut off to the back.