Please add ventilated seats to the performance package ….

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Yes. Cooled seats work well if you ever sit in one for a long drive.
Ventilated seats? Not so much.
The difference is active(cooled) vs passive(ventilated) cooling.
I would happily pay for cooled seats, not ventilated ones.
 

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Well shite. You’re right. To get ventilation you need premium. Just as the Performance package in the z should have it! Btw. Relax Alice. Jesus.
For Porsche, you can add them standalone for $700, or thereabouts.

I usually price Caymans, the 911 is $840:
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Pretty much everything is an add-on charge with Porsche, as soon as I saw the word "standard" my radar blipped.
 

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Seats make your back sweat, even when the AC is full force, because you are trapping heat between your back and the seat surface and preventing evaporation. Worse with leather. Ventilated seats work by blowing/pulling air in that area that traps the heat and sweat. Creating a chilling effect by helping evaporate the sweat and moving air.
In the vehicles I've been in (newer Escalade and CTS) it takes forever to feel the effect.
Some cars are better, and people love them if they are effective.
So if installed as an afterthought, and when they were not originally costed in….my guess it they wouldn’t be the best and most effective in the market. So would they then still be worthwhile in your opinion?

I have almost the exact seats in my Peugeot and have to say they don’t hold the heat nowhere near as much as traditional all leather seating. The suede really helps to absorb some of the heat
 

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Out of interest how long do they take to cool?
Is it like your AC that takes time to work or is it instantaneous
If it takes time I don’t see the appeal because by the time it works your AC has cooled the whole cabin.
Being from West Aus we have some of the driest hottest summers …Christmas ever was 41 degrees Celsius last year ?
It's almost instant. Way faster than the A/C. The best part is using the cooled seats with the windows down. Usually the A/C is pointless with the windows down, but the seats keep you cool and happy.
 
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It's almost instant. Way faster than the A/C. The best part is using the cooled seats with the windows down. Usually the A/C is pointless with the windows down, but the seats keep you cool and happy.
Agree
 

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So if installed as an afterthought, and when they were not originally costed in….my guess it they wouldn’t be the best and most effective in the market. So would they then still be worthwhile in your opinion?

I have almost the exact seats in my Peugeot and have to say they don’t hold the heat nowhere near as much as traditional all leather seating. The suede really helps to absorb some of the heat
The cushions and seat covers must be specifically engineered for cooling/venting. I used to install aftermarket seat heaters, cruise controls, sunroofs and A/C...it's been a while but I have not heard of aftermarket cooled seats. They really need to be specifically engineered to be effective.
 

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i had heated seats in my z4...i never remembered they were there lol.

no matter anyways, i'm sure they quit working once the warranty ran out...
 

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Seats make your back sweat, even when the AC is full force, because you are trapping heat between your back and the seat surface and preventing evaporation. Worse with leather. Ventilated seats work by blowing/pulling air in that area that traps the heat and sweat. Creating a chilling effect by helping evaporate the sweat and moving air.
In the vehicles I've been in (newer Escalade and CTS) it takes forever to feel the effect.
Some cars are better, and people love them if they are effective.
I don't know if its because my car is getting older (16GT), but it takes about 5 minutes to feel anything now. It sure seemed to cool quicker the first few years after I got it. But when I test drove a couple Challengers, those seats cooled almost instantly and you could feel more airflow.
 
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I don't know if its because my car is getting older (16GT), but it takes about 5 minutes to feel anything now. It sure seemed to cool quicker the first few years after I got it. But when I test drove a couple Challengers, those seats cooled almost instantly and you could feel more airflow.
Yessir!
 
 





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