Ventilated Seats - Dissapointing

[Aseras]

Mine are fantastic. Iost something and popped the cushion loose to dig around the rails and adjusted it. Reclipping the leather is a pain but it greatly improved the ventilation power. Now more than lo blows up my back and legs.

 

[Aseras]

Yeah, Ford products have great cooled seats. A coworker has a little Lincoln MKC, and ride in it regularly if we go to lunch, etc. The seats cooling is much better than the RAM. Also, they have memory so they will come on at whatever setting they were on last. RAM's on the other hand, will not.

It will remember seat cooling if you enable it in the csm settings.

 

[Neurobit]

It will remember seat cooling if you enable it in the csm settings.

Unless something has changed on the 2020s (IDK what you have. I see no sig on your profile) then it will not.

It'll only do this based on outside temps (for both heating and cooling), not on user input (<41 deg for seat warmers, and >79 for cooling). If it's outside these temps. You will have to manually turn them on.

 

[Aseras]

Unless something has changed on the 2020s (IDK what you have. I see no sig on your profile) then it will not.

It'll only do this based on outside temps (for both heating and cooling), not on user input (<41 deg for seat warmers, and >79 for cooling). If it's outside these temps. You will have to manually turn them on.

Mine remembers. Also for passenger. I did enable a ton of that stuff in alphaobd. It may be a setting in there that did the trick.

 

[Neurobit]

Mine remembers. Also for passenger. I did enable a ton of that stuff in alphaobd. It may be a setting in there that did the trick.

Ah, it's def the alphabod. That's why it works for you.

 

[MJP]

Is it just me or do these ventilated seats leave much to be desired about?

I was so excited for the summer heat where I can use them but they are nothing like the Ford Expedition I had as a rental once.

Maybe the Fords actually plumb A/C to the seat fans?

I love mine. They may not be cooled but they sure help.

 

[Hrspwr88]

I first learned about ventilated seats in a 2016 Ford raptor. I could feel the air moving when on higher settings, nice and COLD. Bought the Laramie expecting the same performance and was very disappointed. Probably would have went with a Big Horn had I known they were that bad. Fan is noisy also.

My first ventilated seats were an excursion, same thing, nice and cool. I thought all ventilated seats were like that.‍

Now I know lol

 

[Neurobit]

My first ventilated seats were an excursion, same thing, nice and cool. I thought all ventilated seats were like that.‍♂

Now I know lol

Agree that others vehicles are better (and worse), but I am in no way unhappy with mine.
They work fine, even in the Texas heat.

 

[Hrspwr88]

Agree that others vehicles are better (and worse), but I am in no way unhappy with mine.
They work fine, even in the Texas heat.

Agreed, by no means is it a show stopper. My expectations were based on only one other vehicle so it skewed my ideas on a ventilated seat.

 

[mikeru82]

Unless something has changed on the 2020s (IDK what you have. I see no sig on your profile) then it will not.

It'll only do this based on outside temps (for both heating and cooling), not on user input (<41 deg for seat warmers, and >79 for cooling). If it's outside these temps. You will have to manually turn them on.

Are sure it's exterior temp and not interior temp? It hasn't gotten to 80 degrees where I live yet, although yesterday was very close. But my ventilated seats have been on several times this spring when I remote start my truck after work.

The seat ventilation on the 2020 Laramie isn't as good as what we had on our 2016 Laramie, but it's much better than not having it. It's the main reason I decided on a Laramie with the ORG instead of the Rebel. I really hate sweating to the seat

 

[Neurobit]

Are sure it's exterior temp and not interior temp? It hasn't gotten to 80 degrees where I live yet, although yesterday was very close. But my ventilated seats have been on several times this spring when I remote start my truck after work.

The seat ventilation on the 2020 Laramie isn't as good as what we had on our 2016 Laramie, but it's much better than not having it. It's the main reason I decided on a Laramie with the ORG instead of the Rebel. I really hate sweating to the seat

It's based on ambient temp, so outside sensor under driver's mirror.

Could be that it's not super accurate. Mine seems to be right on the dot on both ends of the range, but... I have noticed that the sensor does take a while to update.
In cool weather, inside the garage, if it's 50 or 55 deg, and let's say 38 outside, it takes several minutes for my displayed temp to catch up once I drive off, so these sensors are not the quickest to relay info to the other systems. Now if it's parked outside, then yeah, it's much faster.

Thanks,

 

[djjr50]

Unless something has changed on the 2020s (IDK what you have. I see no sig on your profile) then it will not.

It'll only do this based on outside temps (for both heating and cooling), not on user input (<41 deg for seat warmers, and >79 for cooling). If it's outside these temps. You will have to manually turn them on.

Mine is set to turn on when I auto-start the vehicle, but I see the setting to also turn on whenever I start the vehicle. I dont have any OBD mods.

 

[Neurobit]

Mine is set to turn on when I auto-start the vehicle, but I see the setting to also turn on whenever I start the vehicle. I dont have any OBD mods.

Right. Either one will work, as long as ambient temps are 80 or above.

 

[djjr50]

It's based on ambient temp, so outside sensor under driver's mirror.

Could be that it's not super accurate. Mine seems to be right on the dot on both ends of the range, but... I have noticed that the sensor does take a while to update.
In cool weather, inside the garage, if it's 50 or 55 deg, and let's say 38 outside, it takes several minutes for my displayed temp to catch up once I drive off, so these sensors are not the quickest to relay info to the other systems. Now if it's parked outside, then yeah, it's much faster.

Thanks,

Yeah, I dont have a garage big enough (or clean enough...working on that) to park in. I am also in Florida where outside temps are usually high and interior temps get hot enough to get burnt by the 'Limited' badge on the arm rest. But I only remote start when it is hot and that's when it comes on. Cant say much for the seat heaters, but those suckers work really well!

 

[ruderam2000]

My family jewels have thoroughly enjoyed this feature in my truck. It has helped drained the swamp, so to speak.

 

[HeliPilot]

My family jewels have thoroughly enjoyed this feature in my truck. It has helped drained the swamp, so to speak.

Agreed

 

[Rsorrell2]

My wife loves the vented seats and that there are 3 levels/speeds.

but it would make sense that if you cool down the interior that they would function better if they are sucking cabin air

 

[cnsc74]

Don't know exactly how the seats are cooled (yet), but my wife's Caddy SRX has waht is also called "Ventilated" seats and they really do cool your buns. Just picked up my loaded out 2021 Laramie (with ventilated seats) and it, (like my wife's SRX) gets pretty cool. On a hot day I get a little chill at low and on high, I fart Icicles! Also noted, not that loud on high, and the AC on high max, is way louder than the ventilated seats.

 

[Aseras]

Ventilated means it just has a ducted fan blowing air from the AC duct into the seats. Thats what ram and most cars use.

Actively cooled seats are a thing and use cooling loops that cool even more. They draw air over another cold block and cool it even more before its blown into the seats. I've seen it in Mercedes and Lexus.

 

[mikeru82]

Ventilated means it just has a ducted fan blowing air from the AC duct into the seats. Thats what ram and most cars use.

Actively cooled seats are a thing and use cooling loops that cool even more. They draw air over another cold block and cool it even more before its blown into the seats. I've seen it in Mercedes and Lexus.

Not exactly. On our trucks, the seats pull cabin air into the seating surface. It does not blow air from the AC duct into the seats.