2018 Seat Cooling

Rippermac · Jun 1, 2018

Anyone else with a 2018 notice the lack of cooling in the seats? Am I expecting too much? I would have thought they would have redesigned the cooling to help with prior year complaints. Wondering if I should even take it in and complain about

Kansas GT · Jun 1, 2018

Rippermac said:
Anyone else with a 2018 notice the lack of cooling in the seats? Am I expecting too much? I would have thought they would have redesigned the cooling to help with prior year complaints. Wondering if I should even take it in and complain about

I've never had cooled seats before, but I'm pretty impressed with them. It's quite noticeable while driving.

wanted33 · Jun 1, 2018

I will say they aren't as good as the ones in my F-150, but they do work. It does take a bit for them to cool down.

wireeater · Jun 1, 2018

The seats aren't actually "cooled". They are circulating the cabin ambient temperature. So if you are riding around a 90 degree day with the windows opened and the cooled seats on, you aren't getting cool seats. If you have you climate control set to a cool 68-70 degrees, you will most certainly feel the almost "pissed your pants" feeling underneath you. If you aren't feeling it even when the cabin is cold then take it to a dealer and have them check it. I usually have autoclimate set at 68 and I can feel mine when it's on.

DivineStrike · Jun 1, 2018

wireeater said:
The seats aren't actually "cooled". They are circulating the cabin ambient temperature. So if you are riding around a 90 degree day with the windows opened and the cooled seats on, you aren't getting cool seats. If you have you climate control set to a cool 68-70 degrees, you will most certainly feel the almost "pissed your pants" feeling underneath you. If you aren't feeling it even when the cabin is cold then take it to a dealer and have them check it. I usually have autoclimate set at 68 and I can feel mine when it's on.

Not exactly...they do have this thermal thingy which I can’t remember the name that actually is supposed to cool the seat lol

wireeater · Jun 1, 2018

DivineStrike said:
Not exactly...they do have this thermal thingy which I can’t remember the name that actually is supposed to cool the seat lol

The ThermalThinggy 2000?

DivineStrike · Jun 1, 2018

wireeater said:
The ThermalThinggy 2000?

Exactly haha....found the name

It’s called a peltier device

kart3l · Jun 1, 2018

Do you 18 folks get the rear seat cooled? I think the biggest complaint from the previous years were the lack of cooling in the back. The bottom cools fine.

itguy08 · Jun 1, 2018

Doesn't seem to cool the back much if at all. The cooled seats in the F150 and Taurus seem to cool the back better. The butt is about the same although the F150 is tan and the Taurus is the black fake suede.

ihc95 · Jun 1, 2018

It's my first time having cooled seats in a car and they aren't that great. The seat bottom is decent but I don't think the seat back cools much if at all.

michail71 · Jun 1, 2018

I can't stand the cold butt feeling. But where I have found them to work is when remote starting the vehicle on a hot day. Even the seat-back cools a bit.

But I don't feel much flow in the seat-back when sitting in the seat.

Quarter Horse · Jun 1, 2018

michail71 said:
I can't stand the cold butt feeling. But where I have found them to work is when remote starting the vehicle on a hot day. Even the seat-back cools a bit.

But I don't feel much flow in the seat-back when sitting in the seat.

This.

Makes my balls feel funny. Wife loves the cooling.

Zelek · Jun 3, 2018

Ventilated seats would have been better terminology to use.

Cobra Jet · Jun 3, 2018

I posted this in another thread on this site regarding 2018 heated/cooled seats:

My 2018 heated/cooled seats definitley cool 1000% better than my prior 2016; not sure what Ford did to fix the issue, but it’s defnitely a vast improvement.

I had read a few TSBs for other Ford products and the pre-2018 fix was to go into the As Built module and up the TED fan speeds. The other fix was a mod to the path from TED to seatback via a “sock”, which we all know did not work too well at all.

sebounet · Jun 3, 2018

I come from a 2016, and they are as bad

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