Edition 40 clubsport

[M88ony]

Hi All,

Looking at purchasing a used edition 40. The majority have the standard GTI seats (non bucket) which I am ok with as I find them comfortable.

I have notice the heated seat button on all standard seat edition 40 cars seem to be blanked. Am I right in assuming heated seats were not an option on the edition 40?

[rwleigh]

Well mine has heated seats with the standard non bucket seats, it has winter pack though so maybe that's it?

[Exonian]

I’ve just wandered out of warm office into a biting cold car park at 4:20 AM.
The wind is blowing hard, there was a layer of frozen sleet I’ve just had to remove from my car windows.
It’s cold. Damp penetrating cold.

I parked my arse on the Clubsport seat and rested my hands on the steering wheel.
Did I feel the need for heated seats? No.

I’m no hardcore outdoorsy type.
I don’t want to climb a mountain because mountains are cold.
I’m the type of guy who emerges from the shower on a cold morning and squeals like a schoolgirl at the air temperature unless the central heating is on full pelt.
I was the boy my PE teacher suggested I sign up for the netball team when I stood on the rugby pitch whining about the cold and the mud.
I’m the sort of guy my former-Royal Marine Sergeant Major colleague calls a pussy.

I like my creature comforts me.

I’d be the sort of buyer who specs heated seats, right?
Wrong!

Wind back eleven or so years to when we had that really cold spell when the warmest night was minus ten in southern England.
I emerged from my warm office at 4:30 AM and parked my arse on my mk5 GTI’s tartan seats but didn’t feel the slightest need for bum warmers. The steering wheel was horridly cold though!

Yeah, I’ve had heated seats in my leather furnished mk6 GTI, and in the GTD I owned for fifteen minutes.
The latter’s heated seats weren’t used once, the former’s were tried out a couple times, it felt like I’d peed myself and were duly switched off again.

The Ed40 standard seats and steering wheel actually feel quite temperate in cold weather due to the pretend suede and cloth seat sections. They just never feel that cold.

I jumped in my car in the early hours after clearing the screens and just drove off, cabin temp set at 18 degrees and I was nice and warm within a few minutes (I had a thin fleece coat on).

What was the question again?
Oh, yes, the Ed40 seats.
No. Unlike the GTI, GTD and R of the time, the Clubsport didn’t come with standard heated seats.
You could spec them as part of the winter pack or leather upholstery but that was it. Or the buckets 

Welcome M88ony. Good choice of prospective car.


 


By the way, my colleague Peter says you’re all a bunch of pussies. 

[M88ony]

Thanks Peter!

[andy28]

I woke up all excited, a new thread called Edition 40 Clubsport and I thought I'll definitely be able to contribute here! Unfortunately when I logged in I saw that Exonian has already nailed it. Thread closed!

Just to add though, mine doesn't have them. I thought I would miss them after having them on my previous 4 cars but I really haven't. If the car has everything else that you fancy don't let it put you off.

[scanesare]

Everyone's missing the point here. It's not the lack of heated seats but the lack of buckets that matters 

OP, find a car with those seats and voila: 10 times cooler (random, non-car people get as excited about those when they enter in my car as I do), and they are heated as standard. Especially buying used where you don't have to fork out 1500eur to spec them I don't see any reason not to. They are a breeze for long trips too, don't be put put off from spine shattering experiences in old Fords or Subarus, these are nothing like it.

[andy28]

Everyone's missing the point here. It's not the lack of heated seats but the lack of buckets that matters 

OP, find a car with those seats and voila: 10 times cooler (random, non-car people get as excited about those when they enter in my car as I do), and they are heated as standard. Especially buying used where you don't have to fork out 1500eur to spec them I don't see any reason not to. They are a breeze for long trips too, don't be put put off from spine shattering experiences in old Fords or Subarus, these are nothing like it.

Fair point! Just make sure it's not one of the Irish imports, very highly specced but without the numbered badge etc

[Splashalot]

..... the former’s were tried out a couple times, it felt like I’d peed myself and were duly switched off again.

 

It's not often I actually laugh out loud to myself on forums.  Sir, take a bow....

[scanesare]

make sure it's not one of the Irish imports, very highly specced but without the numbered badge etc

Should be pointed out though that there is no badge on a standard CS from factory, those were being stuck on by VW UK (you won't find them in Germany or any other country), presumably to make CS buyers feel some of the 400 limited CS-S exclusivity ?   That's why it's only a number, not the usual  "no. x out of y" indication as the production was not quantity limited. Hardly a fault I'd say and personally I wouldn't like any dealer to stick a non-OEM plate that means nothing on my car.

Badge aside are there any other issues with Irish CS's?  Asking out of pure curiosity, not familiar with that market.

[M88ony]

VW Dealer is telling me heated seats can be retrofitted with button same as OEM in centre console. This true?