Heated Seats, Is This Normal?
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Heated Seats, Is This Normal?
Just wondering, my 03 Lariet has leather heated seats. After 5-7 MINUTES of driving, heat can be felt coming from the seats. (Wife was first to complain.) Our cars have heated seats, and in seconds, you can feel the heat. The car gets HOT!!!, actually uncomfortable after a few minutes, and needs to be turned down to low. The trucks seats shut off, after about 10-15 minutes. Way before they got much more than warm.
Is this normal? Do I just have to live with paying for a feature that dosn't really work?
Yes, I am showing a little frustration with this truck. Temps, are regularly going near and into the negative numbers, and it would be nice to be able to drive to work with a warm tush.
Is this normal? Do I just have to live with paying for a feature that dosn't really work?
Yes, I am showing a little frustration with this truck. Temps, are regularly going near and into the negative numbers, and it would be nice to be able to drive to work with a warm tush.
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From what I have read here in another thread that is normal runs on a bit and really doesn't get that hot before it turns off just like you explained it. Someone else will pipe up shortly and correct me if I'm wrong.
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I've never noticed that they shut off after a time, but mine heat up in less than 5 minutes and I usually shut it off after I can feel it warming up. The only complaint I have is the seat bottom warms up but not the back of the seats
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Yep, it's a timed event....
Mine wife wants me to hard wire her side so it's on ALL the time !
but I RARELY let it stay on the full ten minutes...
Guess I've just gat a warm bottom
And a remote start that gets the truck pre-warmed...
Mine wife wants me to hard wire her side so it's on ALL the time !
but I RARELY let it stay on the full ten minutes...
Guess I've just gat a warm bottom
And a remote start that gets the truck pre-warmed...
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I have on '01 and my seats do not shut off unless you push the button again. Rode with them on for over an hour just last night. Maybe the timed thing is on newer trucks? I also have heat in the bottom and the lower to middle back. Doesn't take them but a couple of minutes to warm up. About five to get to max temp though.
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Mine only heats the bottom also, and it is so sloooooooow! They do shut off all by there lonesome. I guess I am spoiled by the way the cars heated seats work. I expected much more from this kinda option in this expensive of a truck.
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Heat-up time (I find) is based on how cold they are to start with. Mine seem to take 4-5 minutes or so until you really feel it through jeans, and they shut off in about 10 minutes or so automaticaly.
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Mine too take about 4-5 minutes. My only difference is that at about the 6-7 minute mark you have to hover above the seat or risk 3rd degree burns. About the time you start to feel it you need to turn it off. I've never made it to ten!
Is pressing a button again really that hard ? 
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See my recent post about this. Ford's heated seats are truly a poor effort and very archaic, IMO.
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BOWCOP:
I am from Butte, the usuall home of the lower 48's coldest temps. Already this year we have had a couple of -20 degree F. days, although for the most part, we have experienced a very nice fall.
BTW MBNV992; No problem pressing a little button! There is a problem with not even feeling heat before the button goes off in the first place. The heated seats are pretty much a failure IMHO.
I am from Butte, the usuall home of the lower 48's coldest temps. Already this year we have had a couple of -20 degree F. days, although for the most part, we have experienced a very nice fall.
BTW MBNV992; No problem pressing a little button! There is a problem with not even feeling heat before the button goes off in the first place. The heated seats are pretty much a failure IMHO.