Cold Heated Seats!

[opiefire]

I think I might be having problems with my heated seats. My drivers side seat seems to not heat up very well. I was wondering what people with heated seats thought about how warm the seat gets? I can feel the seat warmer when its on high, but its not enough heat to make me want to shut it off. On low heat I can hardly feel the seat warmer. Does this sound about right for heated seats? I rode in my friends car with heated seats and the seat got so hot I had to shut it off. I was wondering if different heated seats are just lower temps then others? My dealer told me "if it gets warm then its working". I don't need my seat to burn my ***, however after riding in my friends car I was wondering if my heated seats are working properly?

 

[mklucas]

On hi my seat gets plenty warm, but that is usually after about 20-30 minutes. It isn't burn my butt warm, but it gets to be enough so i turn it down or off. On Lo it is just comfortable, never burn my butt, but enough to take the sting out of a cold leather seat. These seat warmers aren't anything like what I had on a BMW - if you put those on Hi it was burn your butt and start sweating in about 5-10 minutes. It doesn't sound like anything is wrong, since the ones that burn your butt (like your buddy's ride and my BMW) are rediculously hot. These are "enough" in my opinion.

 

[KHogan]

I've had two Bimmers ('95 E34 525i Sport and "99 E39 540i Sport), both with heated leather seats, and IMHO the Dodge isn't far behind. High gets plenty hot, and does it plenty fast (i. e. , within minutes even on a day with single-digit weather). Low is comfortable and is soothing on a cold Joisey day, especially if you have a chronic bad back like mine.

 

[RPotter]

My heated seats work very well. If I turn it on high, I'm turning it off in about 4 or 5 minutes, gets plenty hot quick. Low seems to work the best, warms fast in about 2 minutes, and gets plenty warm as well. No problems here. I will say, however, that prior to buying my diesel, I owned a Surburban, and their heated seats were much better, but then again, its more of a wraparound seat, and the backs heated as well. But, overall, not disappointed at all with these.

 

[LightmanE300]

DMbarker I'm with you - the seat heaters are crap. They take way too long to get hot and they never get hot enough. My VW's heated seats in 10F weather would be starting to get warm at the end of my street. My truck takes 3-5 miles before it starts getting warm. I think most folks that like the heated seats have never had any to compare to. I was in a 2005 BMW x5 4. 8 twice this week. Both times the temps were in the 20's, and both times the heated seat was hot in less than a mile, and I had to turn it down. Thats when you want the heated seat, when you get in and are freezing, not 10 minutes later when you already have heat. I'm pretty disappointed to say the least!!

 

[WStoops]

Mine get warm within minutes, even in single digit temps. After 10 minutes or so I have to turn it off as it starts to get uncomfortably warm. The seat is really warm before any sign of warmth from the heater.

 

[Briman]

The high seat heat setting on my '04 is like the low setting on my '00 SLT+. Dodge had great heaters on the 2nd gens. I would prefer more heat. Both 3rd gens I've had were the same.

 

[LightmanE300]

Mine get warm within minutes, even in single digit temps. After 10 minutes or so I have to turn it off as it starts to get uncomfortably warm. The seat is really warm before any sign of warmth from the heater.

Exactly - 10 minutes is way too long. I don't want to be shivering for 10 mins before the seat heater starts really warming up. . The 02 Jetta I had warmed up in probably 30 secs to 1 min.



I should state though - it takes 20-30 mins for mine to ever get hot enough that I need to turn them to low.



Another thing that's annoying about our heated seats is that they do not even START warming up till you sit on them. I've had my truck running 15 mins before (don't make a practice of idling that long) with the heated seats on, and they are still ice cold until you sit on them. I wish there was a way to get them to turn on all the time.

 

[mattymac]

The high seat heat setting on my '04 is like the low setting on my '00 SLT+. Dodge had great heaters on the 2nd gens. I would prefer more heat. Both 3rd gens I've had were the same.

I agree the 2nd gen heated seats are way better than the 3rd gens

 

[JRhinehart]

I agree the 2nd gen heated seats are way better than the 3rd gens

I noticed it too immediately! The 3G seats are not nearly as comfortable, and don't seem to have the adjustability that the 2G seats have, especially the lumbar. Why they switched from power lumbar to manual crank I will never know! It wouldn't take long to get hot butt with the 2G, it takes forever on the 3G!

 

[tschwab]

I think I might be having problems with my heated seats. My drivers side seat seems to not heat up very well. I was wondering what people with heated seats thought about how warm the seat gets? I can feel the seat warmer when its on high, but its not enough heat to make me want to shut it off. On low heat I can hardly feel the seat warmer. Does this sound about right for heated seats? I rode in my friends car with heated seats and the seat got so hot I had to shut it off. I was wondering if different heated seats are just lower temps then others? My dealer told me "if it gets warm then its working". I don't need my seat to burn my ***, however after riding in my friends car I was wondering if my heated seats are working properly?

Same here, as you describe.