As above....

Got a rugdoctor to do the carpets in the house as I know a lot of ppl on here rave about them. Did the house.

I had the afternoon free on Wednesday so I made a Start on the car as the seats was getting ****ty and having a little girl to, kicking the passenger seat back.

Started with the drivers seat so far so good car was running too so it was warm inside. Moved round to the back seats and carpet. I flicked the heated seats on so it could dry out alittle quicker.nothing wrong seat was drying nicely. Then started the passenger seat did that one and the carpet in the foot well.flicked the passenger seat on.

Went into the garage to do the headrest and the rear bench. The car still running as parked it next to the garage. I'd just about finished so I checked on the seats and carpet. I couldn't believe it the drivers seat was on fire loads of grey smoke coming of it!!!

So I put it out as fast I could hut it was too late. My hand went through the seat so now I have a 4ich hole in the driver side seat base plus they are heated to.

I gave skoda a ring to see what they could do for me and told them what happened and they said they've never heard if it before and I was the first... Great.

Now its going to cost me a fortune replace the half the seat as its heated too..

Merry bloody Xmas..

Ant

Ouch :/ sorry to hear that mate. I've got heated seats so I know your pain but in the manual it says only to use dry foam on them. I suppose its abit late now, but you'll know for next time. Hope you get it sorted soon & without too much damage to your wallet

ooooo unlucky mate. couldnt of happened at a better time ey? a week before christmas.

Ah that really sucks.

I was really concerned about this happening when I vax'd my seats in the summer but didn't actual think it couldn't would happen, sorry dude.

bad news :( I only use dry foam on mine and learnt that turning them on to dry leaves a mark where the element is, so I let them air-dry which doesn't take too long. Hopefully you can get a good one from a scrapper and put it down in your 'things to not do' list

Could you not legitimately say that if you had sat on it with a wet bum, and then turned it on to warm you up, you wouldn't expect it to catch fire? You expect this fixed before you tell the press etc...?

I've read a thread somewhere about another vag heated seat catching fire and vw sorted it out after a lot of nagging... Seat wasn't wet first though.

We had a guy last week come into our workshop with his jeans burnt through! they're just control by a regulator for the heat and if that goes your fecked but its rare they do your just unlucky maybe try get some good will from the factory,if you;ve got fsh they might do it with it being a safety related thing because if that happened whilst driving you could have got seriously hurt!

Could you not legitimately say that if you had sat on it with a wet bum, and then turned it on to warm you up, you wouldn't expect it to catch fire? You expect this fixed before you tell the press etc...?

well that's a funny point!! I couldn't have the seat on 5 because it use to burn my ass. The maximum I could do is 3. So the problem as been there I just thought it was the heater element just got abit close to the top.. I wouldn't have thought it would have set on fire.

Now I resulted into a car sponge in the hole and a binliner..

There is one good thing out of this, my drivers seat will look mint/new.

Where are you located?

Any excuse for a retrim.

The foams around £45 from tps and there are some covers in the for sale section.

Where are you located?

chesterfield buddy, why?