Ventilated seats on = worse gas mileage?
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Ventilated seats on = worse gas mileage?
Is it like having the A/C on where you get less power and worse mileage? Or does it not pull from the engine in the same way? I never thought about it until I put it on today and noticed the engine tug and lag a little while coasting.
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The ventilation for your seat should not have any "parasiteit" drag on your car. The air you feel on your bottom and back should be coming from an electric fan located somewhere in the seat which is not attached to the engine by a belt like the Ac compressor. However if it was hot enough for you to turn on the seat ventilation, I'm guessing your Ac might have been on too? That might be the tug and lag. Normally on cars with high HP you will not feel the drag when the ac is on but like when I used to drive an Integra, you can totally feel every ounce of power it was using.
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