Heated seats

[Colin_E]

I don't drive it though

Fixed that for you

[Nanu]

Drove to the airport last week at 4am and the temperature was 8C. After less than a mile the heated seats came on automatically and so did the steering wheel (an option I have never had before). Took me a little while to realise that they were configured to come on once the outside temp was below 10C. A very nice surprise and now wouldn't be without them. Then again I am getting on a bit, so appreciate the finer things in life now.

[Pondrew]

I don't drive it though

Fixed that for you

Indeed, my mistake.

[mr.tourette]

I simply would not buy a car without heated seats, convertible or not, its an absolute must on a z4 imho

[ronk]

I had Saabs and Volvos for years so the heated seats are no novelty and just accepted - but the heated steering wheel!!!!

[AnubisZed]

You kids don't know you're born, in my day we suffered stone cold pvc seating, and that after you'd battled your way into the car in the first place in the dead of winter.
No heated seats etc, we even had to wind the windows down by hand... WIND them, BY HAND!!! just to keep clearing the door mirror, that's if you didn't slice your hand on the mirror glass. Then the bloody windscreen would freeze up, ON THE INSIDE!

You kids today... pah... pansies!!

[Mr Tidy]

You kids don't know you're born, in my day we suffered stone cold pvc seating, and that after you'd battled your way into the car in the first place in the dead of winter.
No heated seats etc, we even had to wind the windows down by hand... WIND them, BY HAND!!! just to keep clearing the door mirror, that's if you didn't slice your hand on the mirror glass. Then the bloody windscreen would freeze up, ON THE INSIDE!

You kids today... pah... pansies!!

Too right - my first 2 cars didn't even have a heated rear window!

[MikeyH]

Wind up windows, you don’t know were born. Luxury power steering on a British car? Not likely, only for wimps

[Mr Tidy]

My first car was a MK2 Cortina with a dynamo - heated seats, HRW, electric windows were the stuff of dreams!

It couldn't cope with headlights, stereo, screen wipers and heater fan all at the same time so I had to be selective so I usually ditched the heater fan and wiped the inside of the screen with one of those chamois pads, that I then left in the car so it misted up again while parked.

Still have fond memories of it just because it was my first car, but it really was a clapped-out rust-bucket POS.

[MikeyH]

Yes but they were proper cars back in the day, happy memories of freezing hands and a cold bum. Stopping every few yards to clean the frost off the windows. Love my E85 though, just enough mod cons to make it comfy without taking away the enjoyment, not going back there again thank you.

[Smartbear]

You kids don't know you're born, in my day we suffered stone cold pvc seating, and that after you'd battled your way into the car in the first place in the dead of winter.
No heated seats etc, we even had to wind the windows down by hand... WIND them, BY HAND!!! just to keep clearing the door mirror, that's if you didn't slice your hand on the mirror glass. Then the bloody windscreen would freeze up, ON THE INSIDE!

You kids today... pah... pansies!!

Too right - my first 2 cars didn't even have a heated rear window!

I had a Hillman Imp in the 80’s which didn’t have a heated rear screen, i remember extending the engine coolant pipes to form a “snake” under the rear window - worked well to clear the rear screen when the engine warmed up!
Rob

[Pondrew]

WIND them, BY HAND!!! just to keep clearing the door mirror,

DOOR mirror?.....rich kid.
Wing mirror pal (and only one cos the near side was an extra). And we had to rub two bits of coal together in our cardboard box to keep warm of a night, which were always freezing even in July.

[dr_john]

All my Zeds have had heated seats, I only switch on when it’s bloody cold. I find that in the time it takes to feel the heat coming through the cabin has heated up enough anyway.

I don’t tend to put the top down in cold weather, maybe I should give that a try this winter.

[ronk]

I had an old Ford with vacuum powered windscreen wipers
Fine downhill - useless uphill!

[Busterboo]

The heated seats are good - although whoever uses them on #3 must have shoe leather for skin - and a pair of gloves is OK on a winter's day with the roof down, but I still miss a heated steering wheel.