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Don’t forget (not that it really helps without remote start), but you can also set the seat heater level to be permanently remembered.
I remember when we did not have seat heaters.
One was lucky to have heat
... and we drove up hill both ways
... and it was snowing 3ft deep
... and back then leather seats still had hair on them
... and you could still smell the cow
... And we liked it!
Is there perforated leather in CAN? No difference in USA models leather for 18.Is the new 2018 perforated leather better from this point of view?
Does it heat faster?
My GTI is the first car I've owned with heated seats and it's ruined me, I could never own a car without them again.
I also took delivery of a 17 SE to replace my 12 S. The plaid definitely heated up faster.
SDO1349, how long does it take your seats to heat up on a cold day(below 30 degrees F)? Also can anyone tell me if there is a setting for the warmers to remember the setting instead of turning off every time the ignition is off?
I have a 15 GTI with leather and the girlfriend has a 15 Golf with the synthetic leather. This is my 3rd VW in a row and my previous models were a Jetta GLI and TDI which both had the synthetic seating surfaces. Both of those cars the seat heaters were EXTREME and set a serious standard that was not met when I obtained my GTI.
I took it in to the dealer countless times always to be told by the service reps/manager "feels normal to me" and dumbass comments like "much hotter than my charger I can tell you that!" to hell with that guys charger, I know what I've come to expect with these cars and it's not there in the GTI w/ leather option.
I had to do my own testing with an infrared thermometer and this is what I discovered.
The GTI takes 5 minutes for the seats to warm up coming from a 55 degree starting temperature in a garage to a maximum temperature of 107 degrees. The Golf seats warm up within one minute reaching a whopping 127 degrees, yes 20 degrees warmer which is a drastic difference.
I argued back and forth with several dealers that it wasn't up to par and was not functioning correctly. I moved up the chain to some gentleman at VW corporate that I was able to convince to swap my heater element in the seat which also changed nothing. The shocking thing for me was that VW had zero written standard of what the temperatures should be reaching for each of the models, it was always at the discretion of the tech to say 'yep feels warm to me so its good' never an actual scientific test in any way shape or form that involved actual measurements.
I've also tried raising the seat temps via VCDS and have noticed zero changes so I'm kind of surprised this seems to be a hot new topic of recent. Perhaps the 2015 model doesn't actually change the temperature but the later years do? Beats me.
Also can anyone tell me if there is a setting for the warmers to remember the setting instead of turning off every time the ignition is off?
I think the thing I miss most about my MKV to MK7 GTI heated seats is the granularity in control. I liked having 5 settings in the MKV versus just the 3 in the MK7. MKV did have climatronic though, so that may be a difference. My MK7 seems to be about the same temp and heat up just as quickly as my MKV did, but I went from leather to cloth now, so I'm sure that makes a huge difference.