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Why not?
Two words: yeast infections.
Shaking too much to drive? Go back inside and get more clothing. How did the Kazakhstanis get by before the invention of the automobile?
It’s colder inside the car usually. All that cold cold metal. Plus my big warm fur hat is too tall for the car so I have to wear a ski hat when I drive.
I haven’t read all the comments but for the people with the Jeeps that the seats aren’t working I am pretty certain that there is a recall on them so they should get fixed. I know it is at least 2001-2004 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE.
I live in the midwest, where the summers can get hot and the winters can get cold. For that reason, I specifically ordered my car with cloth seats. No searing my skin to the seat in the summer, no ice cube in the winter. Now, our motorcycle on the other hand has heated seats (including the passenger backrest). With a seperate control for the passenger. Yes, we’ve used them.
I’ve had heated seats since my first Saab in 1984. I love how they keep my male tush warm and happy.
I do alot of late night --early morning astronomy --and there is nothing quite as nice as heated seats --for that long drive home at 3am --after a long cold night
To post endlessly about heating the car seat or not to post endlessly about heating the car seat? No one cares about what your husband or wife wants, they only care about posting close to 200 messages about what they or their own husband or wife wants. Please put this thread out of its misery.
There’s a poll for this, people!
“Take our poll and test Tom and Ray’s automotive-gender-tuchus theory.”
Depends on what you been eating!
From TMI to people adding to the thread to stop the thread…WoW!
I live in Florida, and have never had the option of heated seats in the cars I can afford to buy. BUT…if I did have the option, I know I would like them. My husband got me a heated, fold-up chair for those early morning Saturday soccer games, which are really cold to my wimpy Florida blood. I love it! I use it if the weather is 65 or below, maybe even a little higher, if the wind is blowing or it is extra damp out. There are several mornings every winter when I would be very happy for a heated seat in my car or my husband’s van.
My wife and I both like heated seats, but we use them quite differently. I use them to take the freeze out of the seat on winter’s mornings or otherwise when I am very cold…a few minutes does it. My wife takes a culinary approach…she likes to bring her butt to a boil, then reduce and simmer for the duration of the ride (could be hours).
Well. I’m a guy and yes heated seats. Why? High of -20 degrees. Yes for real. Heated seats of course.
I’m a guy and I wouldn’t buy a car without heated seats and I know a lot of guys like me. I think that some guys will say they dont use them but they really do.
I read recently that heated seats are being included in EVs because it takes less energy to keep a person warm by heating a bottom than by heating a whole cabin.
Most people here are missing a key detail. I see the difference is hormonal in nature.
Considering that I am a post op male to female transsexual, I’ve lived on both sides of the hormonal divide. I can see both sides of this debate. And I can see why natal females and natal males would see this differently
10 or so years ago, when I was living as a male, my perceived body temperature was much higher. I radiated body heat. I had no need for seat warmers. I thought nothing of going outside in 20 degree temperatures without a jacket. Testosterone kept my body much warmer.
Now, things are different. Estrogen makes me more susceptible to feeling cold temperatures. My body handles heat differently. And I wish I had seat warmers in my car for the cold Chicago winters. And I require a jacket for cold days.
Life isn’t that different from the female side of things. I’m more comfortable in my body. But the hormonal differences make me handle some things differently than I used to.
Unless you’ve lived on both sides of the male/female divide, it’s impossible to totally understand the differences.
I, female, love my heated seats. On chilly days when my 21 yr.old son rides in my car one of the first things he does is turn on the seat warmer for his seat! My husband, on the other hand, has used it maybe once(?). too each his/her own!
I’m a guy. I drive a diesel and it takes forever to warm up. The car did not come with seat heaters. I eventually sourced all of the used parts from other cars so that I could have the heated seats. This is the only heat I have for the first 10-15 minutes of driving before I reach the highway (then it warms up fast). Then I turn them off. My girlfriend loves them too.
I am a male age 54 and I have always loved heated seats. Great invention. Nothing like it on a cold Chicago winter day (like the ones we still seem to have in May!). Warms you up much faster than the car heater. My wife feels the same. Our heated seats also go a bit up the back rest too. I have test driven a car with cooled seats and it did feel like I had an bladder control issue. While I would not seek out a car with cooled seats, I have nothing against them and would probably get used to them.