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Car Forum / Volvo Cars / December 2007Max heat setting for V70 heated seats?
I couldn't find anything in the archives about this. If I missed something please feel free to point me towards the relevant discussion. Anyway, I have a 2004 V70. I was told by the dealer that the seats can only be turned up to 109.5F. That seems paltry and the seats are not as warm as the '89 245 or the 2004 Accord I own. Am I at the limit? Am I not? Is there a way around the limit or another fix? Thanks. > I couldn't find anything in the archives about this. If I missed > something please feel free to point me towards the relevant [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Thanks. You may want to have the heaters on your V70 checked if they are not warming up the seats. On my 2004 V70 the high setting takes the chill off pretty fast and a minute or two of sitting captures enough of that radiated heat that it is borderline uncomfortable and the seat heater gets turned off. I'm thinking that a maximum temperature beyond 10 degrees above normal body temperature would get uncomfortably hot very quickly. The idea behind seat heaters is to raise the seat temperature from some very low number to body temperature. Not to boil water. > > I couldn't find anything in the archives about this. If I missed > > something please feel free to point me towards the relevant [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > behind seat heaters is to raise the seat temperature from some very > low number to body temperature. Not to boil water. Well, they work, if by that you mean hitting the switch makes the seat less cold. I cannot feel anything I would call heat either sitting in it or putting my hand on it. "Too hot to touch" is roughly 160F. I was able to find heated seats on line that went to about 135F. The seats were originally set at 98F, which is just silly. The dealer cranked them to 109.5F. What am I to do now, take the car back in, get charged an hour's work only to be told they *do* work? > > > I couldn't find anything in the archives about this. If I missed > > > something please feel free to point me towards the relevant [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > "Too hot to touch" is roughly 160F. That is the temperature for cooking most meat. Hardly comfortable. >I was able to find heated seats on > line that went to about 135F. Heat output is cumulative when you are sitting on the seat. It builds up and that seat would get very hot, indeed dangerous if temperatures were held to that level. I doubt that you would find a seat that heats to 135 degrees let alone 160 degrees to at all comfortable. Think about what happens to your body once the outside temperature begins to approach and exceed body temperature. > The seats were originally set at 98F, which is just silly. That's human body temperature which would seem to be about the right temperature setting. > The dealer > cranked them to 109.5F. What am I to do now, take the car back in, get > charged an hour's work only to be told they *do* work? Yup. They do work as designed. Seat heaters are designed to do little more than take the chill off the seat bottom raise it to body temperature. Why anyone would want a seat to be radiating heat at 160 degrees is beyond comprehension. >- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - > Yup. > They do work as designed. Seat heaters are designed to do little more > than take the chill off the seat bottom raise it to body temperature. > Why anyone would want a seat to be radiating heat at 160 degrees is > beyond comprehension. I wasn't aruuing for seats that hot, just giving some temp comparisons. The questions still remains why my seats are not as hot as the Volvo I owned before this one or the Honda Accord I currently own. Neither my wife nor I find them satisfactory. > The questions still remains why my seats are not as hot as the Volvo I > owned before this one or the Honda Accord I currently own. Neither my > wife nor I find them satisfactory. We've also found the haeted seats in our 2001 V70 not as good as an S40 we had before. How do you turn the heat up? E. > > The questions still remains why my seats are not as hot as the Volvo I > > owned before this one or the Honda Accord I currently own. Neither my > > wife nor I find them satisfactory. > > We've also found the haeted seats in our 2001 V70 not as good as an S40 we > had before. How do you turn the heat up? My '01 V70 heated seats are the first ones that had two levels of heat. That is the only adjustment: high, low, off. I find that they are very hot, my wife says the aren't hot. I wear a short coat and my trousers are the only thing between my leg and the seat and it gets uncomfortably hot. My wife wears a long coat, so she never feels the heat. Heated seats are actually intended to take the chill out of the seat and provide a neutral surface, not heat up your body. Of course the heat is much more important with a leather seat than with a fabric seat. Leather gets hot in the summer and stays cold in the winter. Fabric is neutral all year long. It seams that Volvo heated seats have a thermal switch that detects when the heat is getting too high and turns them down to a low setting. That is entire an empirical observation. I have never taken one apart and seen the thermal switch.  SignatureCheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA, USA Owned '67,'68,'71,'74,'79,'81,'87,'93,'95 & '01 Volvos. The '67,'74,'79,'87,'95 and '01 through European Delivery. http://rhodyman.net/homevo.html maybe the fat tissue is different as well my passenger seat rippled because of too much heat now its fine after use with out the heater on >> > The questions still remains why my seats are not as hot as the Volvo I >> > owned before this one or the Honda Accord I currently own. Neither my [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > down to a low setting. That is entire an empirical observation. I have > never taken one apart and seen the thermal switch. > Heated seats are actually intended to take the chill out of the seat and > provide a neutral surface, not heat up your body. I'm not that bothered - it's just that the S40 seats were much warmer and faster to heat up than our V70 (both cars have leather seats). E. > > Heated seats are actually intended to take the chill out of the seat and > > provide a neutral surface, not heat up your body. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > E. The S40 seats are a lot smaller.... > The S40 seats are a lot smaller.... And I think our bottoms have got bigger... E. > > Yup. > > They do work as designed. Seat heaters are designed to do little more [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > owned before this one or the Honda Accord I currently own. Neither my > wife nor I find them satisfactory. I can't tell you much about model-to-model differences. But I don't know how you could accurately compare the temperature output to a car that is no longer with you. There are too many variables. Does both the low and high heat setting work on your car seats? > know how you could accurately compare the temperature output to a car > that is no longer with you. There are too many variables. I can tell you which felt warmer. That's pretty easy to differentiate. > Does both the low and high heat setting work on your car seats? Yes. The single light setting is barely noticeable to my bare hand. The double light setting is noticeable but tepid. > > know how you could accurately compare the temperature output to a car > > that is no longer with you. There are too many variables. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Yes. The single light setting is barely noticeable to my bare hand. > The double light setting is noticeable but tepid. They are not designed to be instantaneous hand (or seat) warmers. They are designed to radiate a certain amount of heat that is held in by your rear end covering the entire seating area. Heat is trapped and builds up usually within a minute or two. A more precise if less sales oriented description would be that they are chill removers. Chris Mayhew schrieb: > I couldn't find anything in the archives about this. If I missed > something please feel free to point me towards the relevant [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Am I at the limit? Am I not? Is there a way around the limit or > another fix? AFAIK your Volvo-dealer is able to adjust the max heat of your seat heating. It is adjustable in the series you own. At least my owners-manual says that for my 2005 V70 D5. > Thanks. Your welcome, Joerg Signaturehttp://www.albasani.net/index.html.de Ein freier und kostenloser Server für Usenet/NetNews (NNTP) |
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