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Remote Start / Heated Seats Issues

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2happyhicks Enthusiast

2happyhicks

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Yeah..it was 14deg outside this morning.. went through 2 remote start cycles.. seats felt like I was sitting on an ice chest. .turned seats to high after I got in and after a couple minutes my butt was roasting. Nothing like my 08 denali heaetd seats.. and fyi mine are ONLY HEATED AND NOT PERFERATTED..

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pm26 Senior Enthusiast

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At this rate, people two years from now will be complaining that their heated door handles are not warm enough to touch when remote starting the truck from a mile away. :rolleyes:

Doug_Scott Senior Enthusiast

Doug_Scott

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At this rate, people two years from now will be complaining that their heated door handles are not warm enough to touch when remote starting the truck from a mile away. :rolleyes:

 

I think we will see complaints that ever since they changed to the outside chrome door handles, little Johnny while waiting for mama to unlock the door keeps getting his tongue stuck on it when temp drops below -20 outside. GM will address this by switching to heated door handles.

Doug_Scott Senior Enthusiast

Doug_Scott

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You guys poking jokes its all fun and games... but we want what we pay for!! Enough said.

 

Posting here will not get you what you paid for. It won't even help you get what you paid for. Why do people say "enough said"? Do you really believe that your post completes the discussion? Or are you just telling yourself that you have said enough about this, and you will be moving on?

Did you notice that the OP got his answer on the first page? Long before the "poking jokes" started.

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14ltz71 Enthusiast

14ltz71

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At this rate, people two years from now will be complaining that their heated door handles are not warm enough to touch when remote starting the truck from a mile away. :rolleyes:

Wait these trucks have heated door handles?

 

;)

Dnt Senior Enthusiast

Dnt

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I have found that when the sun shines directly onto the door handles they are heated.

 

Wait these trucks have heated door handles?

;)

14ltz71 Enthusiast

14ltz71

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I have found that when the sun shines directly onto the door handles they are heated.

 

Oh i see- i was getting worried because I dont think my truck was built with any kind of button for the heated door handle option. It's kind of cheap of General Motors to rely on the heat from the sun to heat the handles when I spent $51,000 on a truck.

Dnt Senior Enthusiast

Dnt

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Now I have been told that if you do order the heated door handle option that they will make you a great bundle deal on the Trunk Monkey option..

 

Canuck1 Enthusiast

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This is just crazy, Gm says you have to be sitting in the seats for them to work. At -30c I for one am not going to be sitting in the seat while it is warming up, and even after getting in and driving it takes a good 20 mins for heat to be felt on high heat. This is not a heated seat,its a joke. Because of Gmc,s ineffective remote starter ( 2 cycles of 10 mins) I have installed viper remote that runs for 30 min cycles and it makes no difference,seats are still cold (and I STILL GET NO HEAT AT ALL for at least 20 mins). Combine this with steering that takes 2 hands to operate in cold weather( anything below -20c)and I,m ready to park this thing (2014 GMC all terrain) and go find something else to drive. And yes it,s been to the dealer for updates and the seats still do not heat up and the steering is still very stiff in cold weather. When GMC did all their testing on these trucks they must have had a crash test dummy driving them. This is not my first GM truck, I have had a new GM just about every year to a year and a half since 2007, for work, put 80 to 100,000 kms and trade them off. When you rely on your truck for work its not fun to worry about what,s going to happen next. This is not a very good attempt at a reliable vehicle GMC. The dealer has been good about trying to fix things but what are they supposed to do with no solutions from GM. Not happy, happy, happy.

hzhardy Enthusiast

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If you did not have cooled seats it would work perfect. It is a compromise to have cooled seats since they dont use a heat pad and have mini hair driers (pick uo a dryer turn it on gives heat, pull the cool trigger it get cold) in them. If there is nothing on the seat it dies not trap the air flow. This is a problem with all line uos that have cooled seats.

hzhardy Enthusiast

hzhardy

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That is weird I wonder if they use a similar system for plain heated seats then.

2016 Sierra Owner Senior Enthusiast

2016 Sierra Owner

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That is weird I wonder if they use a similar system for plain heated seats then.

 

Nope the heated and cooled seats have the fan system you are speaking of. The heated only seats have a grid just under the seat fabric. It's seat fabric, heat grid, and foam cushion in that order. At least on mine anyway and all I have is heated seats.

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