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Heated seats (learning function)

CupForm

Active Member
Aug 26, 2023
128
66
Bucharest, RO
stabbing at the heater slider with the two finger salute
Yeah, that's a nice-to-use "shortcut", but it only works when you're able to see those 2 damn buttons... :(
When you're driving through darker areas, they are impossible to see. On top of that, if you have a faulty interior lighting module (as I do), you're unable to switch the light on to see the temp. buttons. And then you're stuck with adjusting the heated seats from the infotainment screen - multiple "clicks" :mad:
Octavia mk4 was (still is) so much smarter/practical than the Formentor on this subject...
 

radiocaf

Active Member
Jan 16, 2024
13
2
Only did reading the manual excerpt above did I realise the learning function only picks up use of heating level 3. I tend to use 3 until warm then drop to 2 or 1, but it never seems to 'get it' and starts on 2 or drops to 1 too soon. Found it useless and have gone back to manual (i.e. stabbing at the heater slider with the two finger salute).
Ah yes, I love the uncertainty that is afforded by the sometimes-slow infotainment unit. You tap with two fingers and have to play "guess if it's going to do what I asked it to" for the next few seconds before giving up, tapping again, and then your seat being instantly put onto level 2 or 1 because you didn't guess long enough.
 

CupForm

Active Member
Aug 26, 2023
128
66
Bucharest, RO
After reading the Manual pages kindly posted by @jcbmally yesterday, I checked the "learning status" of the seat heating on my car... It's STILL freaking learning!!! after more than 3 months!
Ok, let's say that it was cold enough to use the seat heating over the past 2 months, but stil... this system it a very slow learner! It was showing something like 75% in the learning process.
By the time it completes the learning process, the car might have a new owner :confused:
 

jcbmally

Started with nowt and still have most of it left.
Dec 26, 2013
1,279
553
Cybertron
After reading the Manual pages kindly posted by @jcbmally yesterday, I checked the "learning status" of the seat heating on my car... It's STILL freaking learning!!! after more than 3 months!
Ok, let's say that it was cold enough to use the seat heating over the past 2 months, but stil... this system it a very slow learner! It was showing something like 75% in the learning process.
By the time it completes the learning process, the car might have a new owner :confused:
Yeah it seems to be hit and miss with each car. My mate had the exact car at the time and his was a pain, mine took a few weeks but got there in the end.
 

tzuicomicina

Active Member
Feb 14, 2023
33
16
All good with learning until my wife switches to her profile which resets the learning process for me :) I guess I probably won't be able to use this feature.
 
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