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- 2017 CX-9 GT AWD
I do not understand where all this *seats are slow to warm up* criticism is coming from. It*s as if it has become urban myth. I find that the seats and steering wheel heat up just fine. In fact, I can*t leave the seat on the high setting past the first few minutes before I switch it down to medium. My wife on the other hand, likes all three lights lit in the very cold weather.
BTW, mine has hot heat, cold AC, and hot heated seats very quickly. Everything functions great.
Not an urban myth - it's a real issue that I and others have experienced. My wife and I often alternate cars and when I take the CX-9 to drop my son at daycare in the morning, the car is not even close to being fully warmed up by the time I get home...nor are the seats fully warmed up (set on 3). It's not a long trip as the daycare is our neighborhood, so it's only a few minutes to drive there, 5-10 minutes for dropoff/chat, and a few minutes back home.
However, when I drive our 2016 VW Tiguan, by the time I come out of the daycare the engine is fully warmed up and heat/air coming out of vents is hot...and when I get in the car I have to turn the seat heater down. In another thread there is discussion about how Mazda has designed the cooling system to not circulate coolant through the heater core unless the car is being driven, meaning that the cabin heat will not function 100% when the car is idling.
The lack of cabin heat is a real issue when temps are in single digits (Fahrenheit) but seems to not be as bad when temps are above 20* F. Perhaps the issues with seat heaters are a sign of poor quality control instead of poor design that affects every car? If not every owner is having the same problem, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, just that it only affects some cars and not others (though only Mazda knows why).