Just as a process of elimination...is it cold enough for them to automatically turn on with the remote start?I have a 2020 Elite and when I use the remote start feature it does not activate the heated seat function even though they were left on high last time I drove the car. When I don’t use remote start they stay on. I tried searching the forum but couldn’t find anything addressing this issue.
That’s even weirder - - My seat heater lights will turn on?Actually I just figured it out. Apparently when you use the remote start the seat heaters do come on, but the light indicators do not. Weird design but at least they do work.
No problem. Keep us posted.Yes, I agree. I actually think this one I purchased might have some electrical glitches, but I’m still trying to figure it out. I appreciate your feedback.
I've used remote start from 20-50°F. Heated seats do turn on but nothing in the center stack does. Once you pushbutton start your car, you'll notice the heated seat settings won't be the same as when you turned off the car.
From 40-50°F, the seats get turned on with the 2 setting. From 40°F below the 3 setting turns on.
re: your comment above. I’ve used my remote start quite a few times when it’s been cold (in my SoCal cold 40-50*, garage) to get it started and never had the heaters turn on. The first time I noticed this was at my brothers when it was 32* and that’s when they turned on.I wonder if the people pleased with the feature are in more moderate climates or have done detailed testing in and out of garages, etc?
I live in Kansas City Missouri and park in a multiple story open garage and open area at work.I wonder if the people pleased with the feature are in more moderate climates or have done detailed testing in and out of garages, etc? The system uses a badly placed temperature sensor that can be way over ambient and does not factor the 'feel' variables of wind and humidity either. Its pretty awful in my opinion. I've seen the temperature on a frigid windy winter morning with snow report 20 degrees high until I started driving, and the remote start did nothing to warm the car.
Seems like a lot of variance in reactions to this, yet the system is quite deterministic in a bad way and lacks any choice in its design. Compared to other vehicles that let the user start with full climate controls or with last used settings or pre configured in menus, this implementatin of remote start is exceptionally lame and sort of defeats the purpose of having remote start. The seats and cabin are never warm enough in my winter climate (rocky mountains area) on cold days even after extending the remote start out to ~20 minutes with two subsequent keyfob presses. At least two cycles usually makes warm air available once I get in and change the settings.
If I want to warm my car against the cold remotely, before going into said cold, I am not looking for a barely on seat heater that is not warm, or cool 60-70 degree cabin air- I want HEAT. Honda screwed this up big time.
As much as automatic features sounds good on paper, unless done right they are a total fail. If Honda insists on choosing for us with features like this, at least we should be able to configure remote start seat and cabin air heat to: low, med, high, auto. Not just (zero choices) the barely works auto, getting the car up to marginally warmer than freezing on average.
I agree I’d like it to turn everything on from the way I left it, especially the heated seats. I never really thought remote start was used to actually make the ambient temperature inside the vehicle “warm” as much as warming up the engine so once I do start driving it takes less time to warm up the inside.I wonder if the people pleased with the feature are in more moderate climates or have done detailed testing in and out of garages, etc? The system uses a badly placed temperature sensor that can be way over ambient and does not factor the 'feel' variables of wind and humidity either. Its pretty awful in my opinion. I've seen the temperature on a frigid windy winter morning with snow report 20 degrees high until I started driving, and the remote start did nothing to warm the car.
Seems like a lot of variance in reactions to this, yet the system is quite deterministic in a bad way and lacks any choice in its design. Compared to other vehicles that let the user start with full climate controls or with last used settings or pre configured in menus, this implementatin of remote start is exceptionally lame and sort of defeats the purpose of having remote start. The seats and cabin are never warm enough in my winter climate (rocky mountains area) on cold days even after extending the remote start out to ~20 minutes with two subsequent keyfob presses. At least two cycles usually makes warm air available once I get in and change the settings.
If I want to warm my car against the cold remotely, before going into said cold, I am not looking for a barely on seat heater that is not warm, or cool 60-70 degree cabin air- I want HEAT. Honda screwed this up big time.
As much as automatic features sounds good on paper, unless done right they are a total fail. If Honda insists on choosing for us with features like this, at least we should be able to configure remote start seat and cabin air heat to: low, med, high, auto. Not just (zero choices) the barely works auto, getting the car up to marginally warmer than freezing on average.
I have a 2020 Touring and live in Chicago. My seats do heat up so I’m thinking try another dealership because there is clearly something wrong. Yours should turn on. IMOI agree with storm 303. I live in Connecticut and there are nights when the temperature gets into the single digits, when using the remote start my Elite never turns on the heated seats, steering wheel or defrosts the front windshield. When I get in to start, my temperature gauge is at least 20-25 degrees warmer than the ambient temperature outside and doesn’t registers the correct temperature until I’m driving up the block. My dealership says this is normal for a 2020 Elite. The 2012 Toyota Venza I traded in would set everything with heated seats and defroster on what was set upon leaving the vehicle the night before. Eight years of technology later and the Passport doesn’t come close. Honda technology at its best.
Totally agree, I have 2 Hondas and the seats are never warm, this is a bad design!I wonder if the people pleased with the feature are in more moderate climates or have done detailed testing in and out of garages, etc? The system uses a badly placed temperature sensor that can be way over ambient and does not factor the 'feel' variables of wind and humidity either. Its pretty awful in my opinion. I've seen the temperature on a frigid windy winter morning with snow report 20 degrees high until I started driving, and the remote start did nothing to warm the car.
Seems like a lot of variance in reactions to this, yet the system is quite deterministic in a bad way and lacks any choice in its design. Compared to other vehicles that let the user start with full climate controls or with last used settings or pre configured in menus, this implementatin of remote start is exceptionally lame and sort of defeats the purpose of having remote start. The seats and cabin are never warm enough in my winter climate (rocky mountains area) on cold days even after extending the remote start out to ~20 minutes with two subsequent keyfob presses. At least two cycles usually makes warm air available once I get in and change the settings.
If I want to warm my car against the cold remotely, before going into said cold, I am not looking for a barely on seat heater that is not warm, or cool 60-70 degree cabin air- I want HEAT. Honda screwed this up big time.
As much as automatic features sounds good on paper, unless done right they are a total fail. If Honda insists on choosing for us with features like this, at least we should be able to configure remote start seat and cabin air heat to: low, med, high, auto. Not just (zero choices) the barely works auto, getting the car up to marginally warmer than freezing on average.
