2 hours ago, shyVRS245 said:

Same here heated seats and 23c in the winter and if it's not really hot the electric sunroof gets deployed. Plus AIR CON can give you a dry cough.

23c in the winter.....whats wrong with you people ha ha!!

 

Heated seats on full and heating up to HI!!!!.......I hate hate hate the cold 

26 minutes ago, Chris245 said:

23c in the winter.....whats wrong with you people ha ha!!

 

Heated seats on full and heating up to HI!!!!.......I hate hate hate the cold 

 

More to the point, what's with everyone needing to up the temperature of the climate control in winter? The whole point of climate control is to be able to set and leave it without messing around with it.

 

Mine stays on 20.5c all year round. 20.5c is the same in summer as it is in winter. The system throws out cold or hot air to reach and maintain this temperature. If I'm particularly cold I'll put the heated seats on to warm up and within a couple of miles the car has usually reached the set climate control temperature.

3 minutes ago, ahenners said:

 

More to the point, what's with everyone needing to up the temperature of the climate control in winter? The whole point of climate control is to be able to set and leave it without messing around with it.

 

Mine stays on 20.5c all year round. 20.5c is the same in summer as it is in winter. The system throws out cold or hot air to reach and maintain this temperature. If I'm particularly cold I'll put the heated seats on to warm up and within a couple of miles the car has usually reached the set climate control temperature.

 

Similar to how it's nice to have the house a bit warmer during winter, whereas a cool evening in summer would be welcome. Things like radiant heat from windows or exterior walls play a part in making things feel colder during winter. 

 

No heated seats here to combat that. 

6 minutes ago, ahenners said:

 

More to the point, what's with everyone needing to up the temperature of the climate control in winter? The whole point of climate control is to be able to set and leave it without messing around with it.

 

Mine stays on 20.5c all year round. 20.5c is the same in summer as it is in winter. The system throws out cold or hot air to reach and maintain this temperature. If I'm particularly cold I'll put the heated seats on to warm up and within a couple of miles the car has usually reached the set climate control temperature.

Might be something to do with the fact that you live up north where it's cold and us southern's don't like the cold 

2 minutes ago, Chris245 said:

Might be something to do with the fact that you live up north where it's cold and us southern's don't like the cold 

And at 54 years young I feel the cold more than an 18 year old mini-skirt clad lass on a night out in Newcastle.

6 minutes ago, Chris245 said:

Might be something to do with the fact that you live up north where it's cold and us southern's don't like the cold 

 

Can confirm, am Southern.

You Southerners, explains a lot now... 

Reminds me of a visit to Edinburgh. While I'm only a second generation Southerner, my missus is full (cold) blooded southern. I've got a photo of her stood next to our tour guide of Edinburgh castle with him wearing regular clothes and just a thin windbreaker rubbing his hands together occasionally for a bit of warmth she's got about 5 layers on including two coats plus a wooly hat with her hood over the top, two scarves, thick gloves... all you can see is her eyes. 

1 minute ago, uchuff said:

Reminds me of a visit to Edinburgh. While I'm only a second generation Southerner, my missus is full (cold) blooded southern. I've got a photo of her stood next to our tour guide of Edinburgh castle with him wearing regular clothes and just a thin windbreaker rubbing his hands together occasionally for a bit of warmth she's got about 5 layers on including two coats plus a wooly hat with her hood over the top, two scarves, thick gloves... all you can see is her eyes. 

My wife was born in Kenya so this time of year she is like a block of ice and likes to warm herself up by touching my warm Midlander body.

55 minutes ago, ahenners said:

You Southerners, explains a lot now... 

Here here  It’s easy to spot someone from South Wales up here because the language is so different, well, the dialect is. That and they are just as nesh as the the southerners in England. The point about the climate control temperature changing is valid, however the car isn’t as the clever as it thinks and if I leave the temperature set to 18 in the winter it blows cold air out the vents first thing in the morning whereas 20 is just right. 20 is too clamy when the weather is nice.

1 minute ago, SashaGrace said:

Here here  It’s easy to spot someone from South Wales up here because the language is so different, well, the dialect is. That and they are just as nesh as the the southerners in England. The point about the climate control temperature changing is valid, however the car isn’t as the clever as it thinks and if I leave the temperature set to 18 in the winter it blows cold air out the vents first thing in the morning whereas 20 is just right. 20 is too clamy when the weather is nice.

When I first got the 245 we decided to have a weekend break in Cardiff (never been) in August 2017. It was a very nice 24C both days we were there and the wife reclined her electric passenger seat and sunbathed the way there and on the return trip. Only 138 miles each way and we both loved Cardiff, the locals were very friendly and I would thoroughly recommend visiting. We wish we could have stayed longer.

1 hour ago, uchuff said:

you live up north where it's cold

 

Laughs in Norwegian 

Think we need to change the thread to "Weather with Sasha".

Wouldn’t be a long thread, cold and raining pretty much covers it 

2 hours ago, uchuff said:

Reminds me of a visit to Edinburgh. While I'm only a second generation Southerner, my missus is full (cold) blooded southern. I've got a photo of her stood next to our tour guide of Edinburgh castle with him wearing regular clothes and just a thin windbreaker rubbing his hands together occasionally for a bit of warmth she's got about 5 layers on including two coats plus a wooly hat with her hood over the top, two scarves, thick gloves... all you can see is her eyes. 

 

If that was summer it's a good job you didn't visit last winter then.  Newspaper headlines of "Woman crushed to death by the weight of clothing she needed to wear to keep warm in Edinburgh" wouldn't make good PR for the Edinburgh tourist board.   

 

Still if you ever get tired of her you know what to do, increase the life insurance and then book a cruise to see the northern lights at Svalbard in January.  If the cold doesn't finish her off the polar bears will. 

2 minutes ago, widdershins said:

 

If that was summer it's a good job you didn't visit last winter then.  Newspaper headlines of "Woman crushed to death by the weight of clothing she needed to wear to keep warm in Edinburgh" wouldn't make good PR for the Edinburgh tourist board.   

 

Still if you ever get tired of her you know what to do, increase the life insurance and then book a cruise to see the northern lights at Svalbard in January.  If the cold doesn't finish her off the polar bears will. 

Heard it was -10.5C up in the Highlands recently nearly as cold as our friends (Vikings) in Scandinavia.

Not a problem if you've got the heated windscreen option.

1 minute ago, widdershins said:

Not a problem if you've got the heated windscreen option.

That's why I reverse everywhere while my front windscreen de-frosts.

Love my heated screen, was on the must have options list when I was buying the car. I could never go back now!!

"Cold air with high relative humidity "feels" colder than dry air of the same temperature because high humidity in cold weather increases the conduction of heat from the body".

 

The UK has high humidity, so whilst the temperature on the thermometer may be lower in more northern countries, it doesn't necessarily feel colder.

 

That means that the UK population is harder than any of our Scandinavian friends 

 

Edited 4 January, 20197 yr by silver1011

2 hours ago, SashaGrace said:

Love my heated screen, was on the must have options list when I was buying the car. I could never go back now!!

What about the side windows? 

Steady now it's a Skoda forum not a Roller forum.  Though having said that I wouldn't put it past Sasha now you've put the idea in her head.  Connect into heated seat wiring and run up nearest pillars, some thin aftermarket heated rear screen elements and bob's your uncle.

6 hours ago, shyVRS245 said:

Heard it was -10.5C up in the Highlands recently nearly as cold as our friends (Vikings) in Scandinavia.

Still shorts weather for Postie's 

2 hours ago, ExSEAT said:

What about the side windows? 

Hmmm, there’s an idea...

Well how about going the whole hog?  I believe some of our forum members are from colder climes where Skoda offers auxiliary heaters as a factory option.  Perhaps someone could put you in touch with a Scandinavian scrapper who has a suitable Octy in for breaking that has a cab heater.  Click the little button on the separate aux heater fob (let's see you get a silicone cover for that!  ) and watch from inside the house with a warm cuppa as it defrosts outside, all ready for you to  hop into nice and toastie.

 

It'd be a nice little project for you at this time of year, and one the whole family would appreciate and benefit from.

 

Edit: Just had a thought, not sure how it's fitted in, but if it's plumbed in to the water rather than just blowing air, it might also warm the engine and reduce engine wear at start-up on a cold day...

Edited 4 January, 20197 yr by widdershins