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Old Feb 18, 2012 | 08:20 PM
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The seats in my car are so freaking hot its rediculous. Whenever its warm out, which is all the time down in south florida, i get out of the car and my back is so sweaty my shirt is wet. Im notnfat, out of shape, or whatever. I only have this problem in my car. Anyone else have this problem? Solutions? Thanks.
 
Old Feb 19, 2012 | 09:07 AM
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I'm guessing you have no garage then? If the car's not parked out in the sun, it shouldn't be too bad, but if it's just sitting there baking, no amount of a/c is going to stop the seats from being hot. (This presumes you either don't have heated seats or you're 100% sure they're turned off if you do.)
 
Old Feb 19, 2012 | 09:25 AM
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It sits outside. But i'm nit buying that. Before this car i had a chevy tahoe with leather seats and i never had this problem. Could it be that the heated seats switch is broken and maybe stuck on? Maybe i'll pull the fuse for it and see if anything changes cause i cant take this anymore.
 
Old Feb 19, 2012 | 03:46 PM
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I've experienced similar things in my car, and I can say without doubt that my heated seats are definitely off when the dial for them reads zero. If it's hot out and the car is sitting in the sun, the seats are going to be hot. Fact of life with leather. Was your Tahoe white or a light silver? Those colors reflect heat better than dark ones. (My A4 is Dolphin Gray, so it soaks up heat, unfortunately.)

If your seat heaters are somehow incorrectly full on, though, they will get really hot. One time a friend/coworker of mine forgot he had his in his B5 A4 set to 6 (the maximum) when we got in his car and after a block or two he literally said "Man, what's cooking in my ***?"

That, of course, became a running gag for at least a week or two at work.
 
Old Feb 19, 2012 | 06:40 PM
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I'm gonna pull the fuse just in case. I never need them anyway. And my tahoe was black with a dark grey interior. Never had this problem.
 
Old Feb 19, 2012 | 10:01 PM
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Old Feb 19, 2012 | 10:04 PM
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So apparently the fuse for the seat heater also does about a million other things. So i unplugged all thenwires under the seat. I'll see how it is tomorrow. If they're still really hot i'm gonna look into new seats.
 
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