Learned something new - vented seats

[Swicago]

Today was insane hot and humid in my area. So I had the AC blasting at max and the vented seats going. Well we all know that max AC blows from the vents that face you and not the foot vents. It turns out, when you switch to foot vents, the vented seats blows colder air. This was a pleasant surprise and cooled my wife and I much faster. Looks like I'll be using facing and foot vents over max air more often.

 

[austwill]

Ventilated seats don’t blow air, they suck air through the seats. Air blowing through the foot vents wouldn’t be related to the ventilated seat temperatures.

 

[Swicago]

Ventilated seats don’t blow air, they suck air through the seats. Air blowing through the foot vents wouldn’t be related to the ventilated seat temperatures.

Don't what to tell you, there is definitely a temperature difference. Both my wife and I felt it right away. Maybe because the lower section is much cooler when foot blowers are going, that it is in fact sucking in cooler air.

 

[Redfour5]

That sucks...or maybe blows.

 

[Richard320]

Don't what to tell you, there is definitely a temperature difference. Both my wife and I felt it right away. Maybe because the lower section is much cooler when foot blowers are going, that it is in fact sucking in cooler air.

Now I'm curious. I don't have ventilated seats, or I'd go check it out myself. Turn the seats on and hold a match or some incense or something and see if it blows or sucks. Blowing makes more sense --- rather than pull you tighter to the hot leather, there's a small chance some cool air might get between you and the seat.

 

[mikeru82]

Now I'm curious. I don't have ventilated seats, or I'd go check it out myself. Turn the seats on and hold a match or some incense or something and see if it blows or sucks. Blowing makes more sense --- rather than pull you tighter to the hot leather, there's a small chance some cool air might get between you and the seat.

No need to be curious. This is something that's been known for years. They pull air in, not blow it out. Easiest way to tell is to turn them on and put a piece of paper on the seat back. The suction keeps it on the seat back. Turn them off and the paper falls.

 

[Eighty]

No need to be curious. This is something that's been known for years. They pull air in, not blow it out. Easiest way to tell is to turn them on and put a piece of paper on the seat back. The suction keeps it on the seat back. Turn them off and the paper falls.

I kinda wanted to see what happened when people held a match to their seats. You ruined this for me.

 

[PaulieWalnutz]

I’m too lazy to go out and trial this right now but I thought I could feel air coming from the seat back. On mopar website it says the small fans pull air in and push it out evenly through seat.

So if this is the case I would think if ac is blowing cold air towards feet and floor that would be the air pulled in and supplied through perforations .

 

[Swicago]

Ventilated seats don’t blow air, they suck air through the seats. Air blowing through the foot vents wouldn’t be related to the ventilated seat temperatures.

You are right, they do suck. So maybe it is pulling the cool air from the foot wells up over the seats? Like I said, it definitely felt cooler

 

[RBRK]

I have noticed the same, putting some cooler air down low seems to make the seats feel cooler.

 

[Rlaf75]

So it's 10:30 at night and I'm reading this thread for the first time thinking to myself, no way I have vented seat? I know i have heated seats but I haven't used that feature yet because, well, it August. Being excited I went out to the truck to see if i had vented seats which i would absolutely love to have but much to my dismay, i dont. Just heated. Oh well. Lol

 

[austwill]

You are right, they do suck. So maybe it is pulling the cool air from the foot wells up over the seats? Like I said, it definitely felt cooler

I’ll definitely have to test that out then, I just don’t know if I’ll want to sacrifice the main air when it’s 100 degrees haha

 

[Redfour5]

Now I'm curious. I don't have ventilated seats, or I'd go check it out myself. Turn the seats on and hold a match or some incense or something and see if it blows or sucks. Blowing makes more sense --- rather than pull you tighter to the hot leather, there's a small chance some cool air might get between you and the seat.

I'll try it on the wife's garage queen Cherokee elite package with every single bell and whistle Jeep has. Three years old Granite Crystal/sunroof, jeep blackout package and 6K miles... They did offer me what we paid for it... But she ain't givin it up. AND won't even put it in sport mode.

 

[Redfour5]

I'll try it on the wife's garage queen Cherokee elite package with every single bell and whistle Jeep has. Three years old Granite Crystal/sunroof, jeep blackout package and 6K miles... They did offer me what we paid for it... But she ain't givin it up. AND won't even put it in sport mode. When clean, it is a mean looking package, but any rain or dirt screws up the effect. I have the billet silver on my Ram and much prefer that color NOW over the darker ones. Dirt and rain are hardly noticeable...

 

[Buz]

This makes sense that blowing cold air from the foot vents translates into a cooler feeling on the vented seats, but for me when it's 100 degrees out I need the cold air blowing on my upper body more than in the seats. So upper vents for me in a super hot cabin.