Seat Ventilation Problems
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Drifting
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Seat Ventilation Problems
I have a 2020 3LT leather seats and my buddy has a 2021 3LT leather seats. The fan on the seat coolers can easily be heard on all of our seats, but no air movement coming out of the seats, driver and passenger, can be felt on either car. Is this a common problem? It is probably a pain-in-the-butt fix for I would imagine the seats would need to be taken apart.
Burning Brakes
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It's not very strong. Run the seat ventilation at full blast and put your hand on it to feel it, while the car is stopped. Or see if a it blows a kleenex held over the seat perforations.
Drifting
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A trick I learned to make ventilated seats work better is to have the A/C floor vents on instead of the upper level vents. They will draw in the cooler air and in turn have the seats work better.
Melting Slicks
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If I'm not mistaken, the C8 seats are not air conditioned, just vented with ambient air blowing gently on your backside, kind of like rolling down the window. My GT350 seats worked twice as good as my C8 seats but I can still feel a little relief on a hot day.
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I don’t know of any seats that are actually air conditioned, otherwise you’re just inviting condensation
Drifting
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if the cabin temp is acclimated you won't really feel the air but if you turn the fans on and place a tissue over the seat, you should see it move.
The "cooled" option is not air conditioned, its just a fan that pulls colder air from the floor up through the seat. Once you start driving and the cabin acclimates the floor temperature becomes the same temperature as the rest of the cabin and so it no longer feels cool. The fan isn't moving that much air so once the temperature is the same you stop feeling anything at all but on a hot day when you first start the car and turn the AC on, make sure the vents are also set to the floor and turn the cooled seats on, you will definitely feel the colder air coming through the seat until the cabin temp equalizes.
The "cooled" option is not air conditioned, its just a fan that pulls colder air from the floor up through the seat. Once you start driving and the cabin acclimates the floor temperature becomes the same temperature as the rest of the cabin and so it no longer feels cool. The fan isn't moving that much air so once the temperature is the same you stop feeling anything at all but on a hot day when you first start the car and turn the AC on, make sure the vents are also set to the floor and turn the cooled seats on, you will definitely feel the colder air coming through the seat until the cabin temp equalizes.
Melting Slicks
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My previous Infiniti had AC cooled seats, they really got cold and I always had to turn the fan down after a few minutes. My previous C7 and now C8 vert seats are just ventilated and do not work very well, especially, with the top down.