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I love my heated seats, especially now its colder.
I have a 2012 mk7 Fiesta metal, with heated seat, which on a day such as today was switched on from the moment I sat down. Im looking to change in the next 6 months to a 2 year old car (£11k or so), I like the car just want a bit newer so the mk8 fezza seems a good choice and it has a 6 speed gearbox which I feel it needs.
Now I have looked through about 50 cars online and only 2 (non ST models) have heated seats! I thought this might be an expensive option, but no, on a £16k-£20k fiesta the "comfort pack" is £300 for heated seats and steering wheel. Why would you not spec that when so cheap (for the cost of the car) especially in the UK, I might be a pansy but I have mine on 3 months of the year. I would say £300 is a small price to pay so my bottom stays at its optimum temperature! Do people just not like heated seats???
My last 7 cars have all had heated seats and unlike @Haze I find they are great, get far warmer than my own body can heat the seat up (which is kind of the point), and certainly in the convertibles it helps get some heat into what can be seats almost down to freezing point in this weather at 6am!
Leather was never a good seat material. Always to cold or to hot and not very grippy.
Alcantara is the way. I never need to use my heated seats.
My Octy's ones are the same.If people's body heat is working faster than the heating element in the seat, there must be some seriously shoddy parts being used.
In my Octavia they're hot within a minute or so.
It was -8C here last night in Scotland and -3C the night before.
So heated seats were a god send. Took the car 5-10 mins to heat up to defrost the windows too.
Yeah they are priceless with leather when its really cold, your butt can only do so much and mine has 3 settings so you dont need to burn your cheeks.
I dont really use them much when out with the top down as the MX5s heater is pretty powerful anyway.
My Octy's ones are the same.
The problem is that, being part of my core, my back and my bum were never cold in the first place. My hands are where the essential activity takes place during driving and they're far more exposed to the cold than any part that touches the seat...