Heated seats

[MikeyH]

Always nice and warm on the English Riviera

I beg to differ, I was working in Torquay a few years back and the little roundabout with the palm trees on near the seafront was covered in Snow!

It was the year the main route out was shut due to snow with many people trapped in their cars, think I got through about an hour before it was impassible… near telegraph hill

Very rare we have that amount of snow down here though

 

[Silverstar]

I use my heated seats sometimes in the winter and I am on the Costa Del Sol where our winters are like your summers Can't do without heated seats in a car with leather.

Another important point to bear in mind the car with heated seats especially a convertible will be worth a bit more and be way easier to sell than one without.

 

[True-Blue]

Always nice and warm on the English Riviera

I beg to differ, I was working in Torquay a few years back and the little roundabout with the palm trees on near the seafront was covered in Snow!

It was the year the main route out was shut due to snow with many people trapped in their cars, think I got through about an hour before it was impassible… near telegraph hill

Very rare we have that amount of snow down here though

I know, was only teasing… don’t get a lot of snow here either tbh

 

[MikeyH]

I know you were

 

[BeardyJon]

Echoing what a lot of people are saying on here, heated seats are essential for me. I have the roof down almost every time I drive the car. Even in cold weather, with the heater and heated seats going you can get the cabin nice and toasty with the roof down. I have even driven the car with the roof down when its snowing and the heating systems still kept me warm.

But, a different perspective on it: If you're buying a 2-seat luxury roadster, why wouldn't you get all the extras? I would get as many of the options as possible if you really want it to feel like a luxury car. Otherwise why not just get a Renault Megane Cabrio?

 

[MikeyH]

Word of advice. For gods sake don’t buy a Renault Megane Cab, we had one and the windows keep stopping working and stayed down, the roof leaked and the car filled up with water. Put me off French cars for life.

 

[BeardyJon]

Word of advice. For gods sake don’t buy a Renault Megane Cab, we had one and the windows keep stopping working and stayed down, the roof leaked and the car filled up with water. Put me off French cars for life.

Proving my point, so exquisitely.

 

[SSF]

I have a Webasto heater in my Z4, so I can get the car "nice and toasty" before I even unlock the doors, but the heating in the seats still gets used (especially the passenger one). Even more so in the steering wheel. But then I like having warm hands (and the swimbo a warm butt )

 

[Harry_E89]

I drive my car year round in California- i recommend heated seats 100%. They come in clutch when driving at night.

 

[ProfCJJ]

I've managed to source some really good condition MSport heated, electrically operated seats. They are in black/dark blue (still need to check) and I need them in Koral Red, so I will probably just be changing the covers and using the "donor" seats - if that is at all possible. As a bonus the seats also have the seat back pocket which mine don't. I also have the switch panel which has the heated seat switches.

My car is quite nicely specced, even has the top model car audio - but no heated nor electrically operated seats and its the only thing I really miss. Its a mystery to me why the original owner spend so much on other options but not on heated seats? We are all different though eh?!

I'm guessing I will have to do some wiring and a bit of coding but hopefully it is all doable

 

[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

:lol: :lol:
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. :roll:

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

 

[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.