Fun with heated seats

[mrflibbles]

A friend of mine mentioned that his heated seats make him feel like he has soiled himself....anyone else noticed this?

Is it true they give you piles?

edited cause i can't spell

>>> Edited by mrflibbles on Monday 24th March 10:26

[Big Chris]

Can confirm, they do feel like you have just pissed yourself.

Not sure about the piles though

[sparkey]

They only feel like you've pissed yourself if you've got a big sweatty arse !

[anonymous-user]

I've had the old heated seats for years now and I wouldn't be without them on a cold winter morning. No problems with the chalfonts either.

[Big Chris]

sparkey said: They only feel like you've pissed yourself if you've got a big sweatty arse !

I disagree...... i dont have a big sweaty arse but i definitely didnt feel right!......................... shit, unless i had actually "had an accident"

[pbrettle]

Just bought a car with heated seats - nice, boy do they get hot! You start with the "mmm, nice and comfortable". Then it gets "ooooo, thats getting warm". To the "ooo ahh ooo ahh" as you have to switch buttocks in contact with the seat..... Rather hot, suspect I wont be using them that much!

Cheers,

Paul

[JohnL]

pbrettle said: Just bought a car with heated seats - nice, boy do they get hot! You start with the "mmm, nice and comfortable". Then it gets "ooooo, thats getting warm". To the "ooo ahh ooo ahh" as you have to switch buttocks in contact with the seat..... Rather hot, suspect I wont be using them that much!

Cheers,

Paul

Y'know, this may sound odd, but if you switch them off after they've warmed up this doesn't happen !!!

[CraigAlsop]

JohnL said: Y'know, this may sound odd, but if you switch them off after they've warmed up this doesn't happen !!!

It's not switch-offable on all cars - I had a Saab with an "automatic" heated seat for the passenger (driver had a nice choice of 0,1,2,3 settings)

Many of my passengers started looking distinctly sheepish after 5 minutes - one even confessed that they might have had a "slight accident"

[marki]

with VW dont go over setting 3 as it will get painfull

[whatever]

Heated seats are great practical joke material. Especially if you can switch on the driver's seat, or passengers, without them realising...

Likewise with electric rear windows, when ones friends are asleep in the back as you're passing a truck on a wet motorway...

[roop]

Borrowed my dad's Volvo for a few days while my car has having some work done and accidentally dropped my wallet on the heated seats button. I got about 5 miles when all of a sudden I felt a fierce burning sensation. The heater element thermostat or timer or whatever had failed and the heater element came through the seat like a hot knife through butter, straight through my kecks and branded my left arse-cheek.

At this point I jumped out of the seat, cracking my head on the roof and had to drive braced between the pedal box and the seat back with my bum 6 inches off the seat. Levering myself against the wheel caused me to swerve all over the bloody shop at about 50mph on a back road. The car was now filling with somewhat acrid smoke at which point I stopped on the entrance someones drive and bailed out *cue cartoon images of sticking bum into bucket of water*.

I wouldn't care but it wrecked some decent pants...!