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Cooling Seats issue and TSB feedback
#5371
SO LAME that it is now a "fan" and the part that bothers me the most is I literally offered to let Ford just take my design files and have at it to fix all of the cooled seats. Even future ones. Heck I didn't even ask for a dime!
#5372
Senior Member
I have NOT seen a definitive comparison between the pre-2015 "cooling seats" (that functioned optimally), the optimized (via Tim's kit) 2015-2017 versions and the 2018 "ventilated" versions.... does anyone have a good objective comparison to share with us.... just curious how each of them stack up.....I have ventilated seats in my C7 'Vette and they don't blow my socks off cooling-wise..... AZPLAT
#5373
Lets face it.. Ford probably would still move as many truck, even if they removed the seat coolers completely.
Up until I bought my lariat, back in April, I never had a cooled seat. You don' know that you will miss it, if you never had it.
#5377
Member
#5378
Ahhh! I just purchased a 2018 Lariat (but don't have possession yet), one of the big drivers of choosing the lariat over the XLT was I was under the impression the seats were both heated AND cooled.
I'm not reading this whole thread, but it sounds as if the truck will really only have a fan to blow air around and no cooling effect? What a crock, blowing ambient air through a seat is pointless!
So no cooling, and no easy/ practical mods to make it cool?!
I'm not reading this whole thread, but it sounds as if the truck will really only have a fan to blow air around and no cooling effect? What a crock, blowing ambient air through a seat is pointless!
So no cooling, and no easy/ practical mods to make it cool?!
#5379
Senior Member
Ahhh! I just purchased a 2018 Lariat (but don't have possession yet), one of the big drivers of choosing the lariat over the XLT was I was under the impression the seats were both heated AND cooled.
I'm not reading this whole thread, but it sounds as if the truck will really only have a fan to blow air around and no cooling effect? What a crock, blowing ambient air through a seat is pointless!
So no cooling, and no easy/ practical mods to make it cool?!
I'm not reading this whole thread, but it sounds as if the truck will really only have a fan to blow air around and no cooling effect? What a crock, blowing ambient air through a seat is pointless!
So no cooling, and no easy/ practical mods to make it cool?!
#5380
I have one of the first kits Tim made for my 2015 Platinum. I have cooling in seat cushions and back of seat that work great. Things that I have noticed that can make a difference. First thing if you do not inflate the bladders for comfort there does seem to be more air movement over inflating them especially on the back. Second thing is I noticed the seats not cooling as well one day and looked around and found the problem. My exhaust hose was not as long as I would have liked and the carpet flap that folds under the bottom of the seat was right up against the exhaust hose blocking air flow. Folded the carpet out of the way and the seats went back to cooling I was use to with Tim’s kit. Temp was 93 yesterday and had cooling top and bottom that was actually cold enough for me to turn it down to second setting. Can’t thank Tim enough for making this kit to fix our seats.
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