cjhurtado2

Warm not Hot like other cars.

dj Dozhe

I tried it today without wearing my full length topcoat and of course they were plenty warm. Of course now I have a different issue with the car that I'm going to have to talk to the dealer about. When I try to change the settings in the MID it says that I'm not a recognized driver. Innnteresting.

tsxflexer

It seems like mine are hot sometimes and other times that are just warm. I think that it just depends on how cold it is. Other people who have drove my car haven't complained though.

Newplay1

My butt warmer works great even on low... let it sit and kick in and you feel like (took a warm piss).

IlliNorge

Oh, THAT'S why I don't use the warmers after drinking a pot of coffee....

jd33

Mine get super hot on high ... i like it, but my passenger usually says its too hot, turn it off. But my passengers' asses are usually pretty hot to start out with.

polytsx

It was only -4 here this morning, however I find they work perfectly; take 3-4 minutes to reach a perfectly "warm" and comfortable setting. All time record would go to my former SAAB; it could be -20 and you would have a bad case of sac sweat in under five minutes.

excited

I didn't get a bad case of sac sweat, but I did try the seat warmer today and in about 2 - 3 minutes the seats were comfortable and I turned them off shortly there after. I will resist the temptation to see how long it needs to be on before I do get a bad case of sac sweat. :angryfire



Excited

scheißterhöffer

I hear you man. A buddy of mine has a Grand Cherokee. I think that if you sat on their high setting for like 20 minutes it would actually burn your skin, even through the jeans and underwear and crust. We tried to see who could sit on them the longest, and it was brutal. I couldn't do more than a few minutes.

fuckleberry

If I need extra heat I go all natural : I fart

Benz_05_TSX

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^

not when theres Passengers in my car.... i just fart outside, i don't want my car stink and be stuck with the smell when i drive!

defeasance

4get the seats my car takes bout 5 minutes just for the climate control heat to start up. n e 1 else wit similar problems. Another thing is my GAS goes down terrbily quick with or without useage of my heating system

swirlie

Mine takes 1 to 2 mins for the seats to get warm enough. The climate control fans start up about 30 seconds before that.

West6MT

Mine take a few minutes to warm up I guess. I will check this morning in a few hours. I turn them on until I can start to feel them,......at that point I just turn them off cause I know I will get too hot.

skipreid

Mine worked fine this morning. I turned my seat on high for 3 minutes(that was when I felt I was warm enough), then I put the seat on low. It was a comfortable ride all the way to work. I actually cut it off about 10 miles up the road. So far, so good.

Savio

I called it a "heat seater" the other day

docray1

My 2006 TSX seats get warm, but not hot. I noticed that the owners manual claims that the seats cycle on/off so as not to get overheated. This probably accounts for why they dont get as hot as some of the German or US built cars do.

dj Dozhe

Ya I didn't realize that hot had the cycle. I would feel the seats getting warm then I would feel nothing. They feel fine now that I know what's going on. Not as hot, but it's pretty easy to let that slide. Not that high on my list of priorities.

swirlie

I've done that too. But I usually call it a "butt/back toaster" or "butt toaster" depending on if I'm talking about the driver or passenger seat.

TSX 'R' US

mine gets hot in a minute or two in cold weather...and ~4 minutes in freezing weather

nagidizy

Perhaps it is because I am warm-blooded, or in other words, run hotter than most folks, but they seem plenty hot to me. I don't turn them on all that often, and when I do, it is on the lower setting typically. Those few times I've used the high setting, I've roasting within 5 or 10 minutes at most ... and have to turn them down.

So, yes, the heated seats are hot.
If they don't seem hot to you, yours might be malfunctioning, or you might just need more external heat to feel comfy. People *do* vary considerably in this aspect.

As a nod towards big science, I will test them tonight with a digital thermometer, and see what level of increase over ambient temps they provide, and then duly report back here for your edification. Unless I read farther in this thread and discover that someone else already done done it. Durn it.

Of course, I forgot to mention that I coated my seats with Sterno, habanero powder, Tiger Balm, and "Essence of Paulina Porizkova". They steamin'

ruffellprefley

thread revival!

my driver's side used to get piping hot on high, but today i not only noticed that the backlight on the driver's side switch is out, but that it didn't get very warm in my 20 minute drive to work this morning. i guess it's time to visit the dealer to get some warranty work done...

nj2pa2nc

when the dealer replaced my driver's side seat cover they told me my heated seats would probably stop working in the very near future ( I have never used them). they are ordering parts.

davidspalding

Yeah, you shouldn't sit on them so much.

psteng19

Mine don't get particularly hot.
I wish they did.

Ruserious

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My Butts pretty average.... I dont feel any heat when i put them on... Maybe its the hairs on my bottom that serve as a blocking shield...


chillllll I dont have a hairy ass..

mclovintsx

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mine works just fineee.

Superb0o

I think I barely use mine actually. The only thing is that my passenger switch has no more light. Then again, I'm pretty sure that's due to a computer being hooked up to it.

ILoveMyHonda

My seats are hot whenever I'm sitting in them, and I'm not talkin about the seat warmer!

On a serious note, for myself even on some cold days the "high" mode seems too much, I mostly use the "low" setting.

dalieu

hmmm... I was just thinking about this the other day. I remember the driver seat in my 2005 getting pretty hot, nowadays it's just warm.

Mokos23

yes it gets hot within 2-3 mins.

davidspalding

To answer the Q, in HI mode, my butt gets toasty warm in about 5 or so minutes. In LOW, it takes about 10 minutes. Been using it daily in the AM drive, when it's been down to 30°. According to the manual, in HI, the seat heater(s) cycle off when the seat is warmed, but I have to cut it off when my butt gets quite warm, almost uncomfortably so. Maybe it's defective? Anyone know where the sensor is?

dj Dozhe

Great revival, and I really miss nagidizy's posts even though some found them annoying . That aside, creating this thread and having these discussions is how I found out the High cycles the the heat and then clicking Low when it's comfortable keeps it where it's at. I definitely missed that part when I first read through my manual. Now that I've moved back to Boston that little point is incredibly helpful.

ILoveMyHonda

On second thought, I try not to use it that often, I'd like to have children in the future.

Mskierki

Does anyone know what the two connectors are for? I am guessing that one is for the heating element for the low setting and one is for the high setting.