Heated seats taking ages to warm up!

[RocketRossUK]

they are two totally different systems. The blowers use warm air from engine and heated seats use electricity from the battery, like a electric blanket.

[DaveyGTD]

Tried various options yesterday like turning them on, then off then on again to see if it improved it.

Nope, literally a 12 minute drive and they were just starting to warm up - it can't be right, there is no logic behind it taking so long.

As bad as the A3 Black Edition heated seats were, they still warmed up quick (3-4 mins) it was just their overall temperature sucked (thanks to Audi reducing the temps across the range from 2009)

[Raffe]

Hmm, sorry guys. Mine take between 2-3 mins to get really hot, as does the passenger side.

Although I must say that the level 1 setting is a waste of time as heat is very very minimal i.e. no point !

Red

Leather or cloth?

Ours with leather seats were a waste of time too at around 10mins to do anything worth noting.

[Ze german]

I can confirm still fairly useless ! i have a bmw and the heated seats are hot in 2 mins and very toasty. Also they heat your back as well where as the golf is just the bum

[RocketRossUK]

I can confirm still fairly useless ! i have a bmw and the heated seats are hot in 2 mins and very toasty. Also they heat your back as well where as the golf is just the bum

seats must be broke, mine get very hot and warm lower back nicely

[Booth11]

Yeah mine heat up lower back too (once they've finally got hot)

[carlt69]

Further to my previous post, this morning i noticed that they were heating up after a couple of minutes!

Dont know why it was quicker this morning!!

[Ze german]

I can confirm still fairly useless ! i have a bmw and the heated seats are hot in 2 mins and very toasty. Also they heat your back as well where as the golf is just the bum

seats must be broke, mine get very hot and warm lower back nicely

Thanks for the info car is under warranty so will try and take into the garage to fix

[mwad gti]

I can confirm still fairly useless ! i have a bmw and the heated seats are hot in 2 mins and very toasty. Also they heat your back as well where as the golf is just the bum

I've had 2 BMWs with heated seats and both were superb.
Aswell as the GTi I also have an Audi TT and the seats in that are superb 

[DaveyGTD]

I always hear about BMW's having good heated seats, perhaps I went for the wrong car 

Audi...Well after 2009 they reduced the overall seat heater temperature so guessing your TT is before 2009... Although I think the later ones (2012+) are back to normal temps again!

As for the Golf, gets more irritating by the day, as silly as it sounds, heated seats were a must-have when I was looking for the car so to pay out a fortune on a car for sub-standard seat heating...hmm!