Only use the lowest setting on my car which has alcantara / leather trim. More than adequate and soon has me feeling nice and snug, long before the heater has started to warm anything.

Using mine today. Cloth seats. Just wearing a pair of jeans and level 3 is too hot. 1 is what i would expect medium to be maybe.

I have the same problem on Octavia 2015. Even on 1, seat becomes to hot after 5 minutes.

Anybody found a solution? Is it possible to adjust heating level using VCDS or making some hardware modifications?

I didnt find any thread about that.

 

 

 

Same with mine; 2016 with leather/alcantara.

I did find temperature settings in VCDS, but it didnt make any difference when I tried to alter them.

There is a temperature sensor inside the seat. It could probably be adjusted with a resistor in series or parallell to fake a higher temperature.

I dont know if its a NTC or PTC thermistor. But NTC is most common, meaning  that the resistance is decreasing when the temperature is increasing .

There could also be the sensors position in the seat that is making this problem.

Could be stating the obvious here but surely when they get too hot just turn them off??

 

I must admit they get a lot warmer & quicker than the ones in my old Mk2 but they are a god send on cold winter mornings  

3 is quite hot and I generally only use it if it's very cold, and I'm wearing a few layers. Usually 2 is sufficient, and I drop it to 1 if it gets a bit too hot.

 

@Octa15 Setting 1 being too hot after 5 minutes sounds odd. "too hot" is subjective but 1 barely registers in mine. Get it looked at if you still have warranty, or ask the dealer if you can test another Octavia with heated seats to compare.

they are ridiculously hot on my MY16 VRS. 

 

Level 1 is hot and I turn it off after a couple of minutes

Level 2 and 3 are uncomfortably hot and unusable

 

My wifes Audi TTS also has heated seats

 

Level 1 is pleasantly warm and can be left on indefinitely

Level 2 is ideal for when its freezing cold and can be switched off after 10 minutes

Level 3 is like level 1 on the Skoda

 

Audi temperature range is far better and gives a range of options- with Skoda its either level one or nothing

 

My 2014 Superb has the same problem. It has leather seats which take a bit of time to heat up but when they do - scorching. So I end up blipping the heat on and off to stay medium-rare.

I asked my local dealer about it and got the classic answer: "Yeah, they all do that"!

I used it on mountains last winter to defrost the windshield. They worked like charm.

 

Leather seats.

 

Works fine on my 2016 Superb. I use III to get it going, then down to 1 if it’s a cold day. I can leave it on I all day, it just gives a trickle of heat. It sounds to me like those with scorchio seats have a regulation fault.

Fine on level 3 on my vrs 2014 diesel. Appear to get cooler after the initial heat up warmth. 

Mine are OK, same as my last Passat.

 

But they do seem to cycle on/off a bit. A bit too much hysteresis in the settings.

 

I had a Mondeo with 5 heat settings and 5 cool settings and they were great. 5 different levels of constant consistent heat, they were great.

 

Lee

I expect heated seats will affect everyone differently. All I can say is the temp settings on our 2017 SEAT and 2017 SKODA are exactly the same (both have leather seats). 3 to warm things up and then turn the heater off. Or keep it on 1 if I'm suffering from a sore back - saves a fortune on chiropractor fees  

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