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Ventilated Seats: Does your seat blow cold air well?

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Old 06-20-07, 08:35 AM
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Default Ventilated Seats: Does your seat blow cold air well?

I have the AC ventilated seats and for some reason i dont notice a huge cooling effect or any cooling at all?

Do others out there share the same feeling? At "3" i dont feel anything, whats the point of 1 and 2?

Please advise your experiences. thanks
Old 06-20-07, 08:37 AM
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Same as yours. I feel air but that is about it
Old 06-20-07, 09:03 AM
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I think mine work pretty well, they were equal in my 1st and 2nd gs
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Default Umm..that sounds like a personal question :)

j/k - I do notice them when they are on, but it is not like - wow, feel the rush of cool air flowing out of them!
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It's much more noticeable when the AC is on. I never use any other setting besides 3.
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For cooling, the air flow is noticeable when you're in shorts.

As for the settings, they're useful with the seat heaters so I guess they just wanted to be uniform and give the seat cooler settings an equal number of adjustments despite the fact that it really doesn't do much.
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I get hot easy and I always have my seat ventilator on full blast. I don't think they work as well as Infiniti's M. First off, they're just fans, it's not directly hooked up to the A/C. IMO, I don't think they help a whole lot.
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It's working very well for me, 3 being actually too cold, 1 and 2 is very nice to keep my bottom cool and sweat free !
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I don't notice a really cold feeling, but the other day I forgot I had the passenger side on 3 and I couldn't figure out where the annoying "wind noise" was coming from. I kept checking that all of the windows were up. I'm a doink.
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Airflow is minimal and nothing compared to the cooled/heated seats that I had in my 745Li. The seat fan draws ambient air from under the seat so I find that the seat cools better when you turn on bi-level air flow so the footwells receive cold A/C air as well as the dash registers.
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Originally Posted by mel's-gs
I don't notice a really cold feeling, but the other day I forgot I had the passenger side on 3 and I couldn't figure out where the annoying "wind noise" was coming from. I kept checking that all of the windows were up. I'm a doink.
Mel,

That is soo funny, i just had that experience today. I was wondering where that sound was coming from. ha ha
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Originally Posted by 2thfixr
Airflow is minimal and nothing compared to the cooled/heated seats that I had in my 745Li. The seat fan draws ambient air from under the seat so I find that the seat cools better when you turn on bi-level air flow so the footwells receive cold A/C air as well as the dash registers.
Good input, today i will try it out and report
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Is it supposed to only cool the seat bottom and not the seat back? I keep meaning to ask this question here. I get very strong airflow through the seat bottom and seems like nothing through the seat back.
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Originally Posted by Modeler
Is it supposed to only cool the seat bottom and not the seat back? I keep meaning to ask this question here. I get very strong airflow through the seat bottom and seems like nothing through the seat back.
I believe i have felt some air thru the seat back
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Freezing my ----- off!


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