Heated seats taking ages to warm up!

[mwad gti]

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!

Yes, my TT is a 2008

[RocketRossUK]

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!

make up a hot water  bottle in the morning and wear a onesies and a beanie hat. Its not even that cold in a morning, where do you live, high end of scotland or something?

[DaveyGTD]

I know what you mean... But I love heated seats (when they work properly) and whilst it's only a few months or so of the year they get used, it's the principal of paying out, let's face it, a lot of money on a car that essentially SHOULD perform better in that department, it's not like it's new technology or anything.

To some it's trivial and silly, but to others we do expect better for the cost, they might as well have not bothered fitting heating elements in the seats, that's the point im making 

I timed it at 15 minutes today - with a low heat starting to be felt, so would guess it would take around 30 minutes for the full heat to be in effect, no one can say that's acceptable surely!

[Booth11]

If it's taking 30 mins for them to get properly hot then maybe they are faulty.  Perhaps you should get them checked out.  Is the car still in warranty?

[DaveyGTD]

I scanned it with VCDS and no fault codes, but perhaps something like that might not show (but both driver and passenger seats are like that so it's unlikely to be elements, maybe a relay?) A year out of warranty unfortunately

[RedHP]

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.

Mine are cloth pal. Both back and seat heat up within 3 mins. Blowers take longer than this, but I guess that this is down to the seat heating-elements.
The wife's 2011 Polo SEL only has two settings for heated seats as opposed to my three. She says that's hers reduce setting levels i.e. from two to one after a certain time and without her choosing to do so.
I've never noticed this 'auto-reduction' on my GiT, have you???


Red

[RocketRossUK]

30 mins to heat up !!!

1.) you're seated are deffo f**ked, or

2.) you must an extremely fat ass and the heat takes ages to reach your core   

[DaveyGTD]

  Im going for 1!

[Ze german]

make up a hot water  bottle in the morning and wear a onesies and a beanie hat. Its not even that cold in a morning, where do you live, high end of scotland or something?
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