My 2012 and the Gen 2 cars I've driven heat up quite well. Let us know what settings you are using.I have noticed this with my 2016 volt: directing the heat to the floor zone isn't super effective at making it warmer near my feet. Even blasting it full seems to do little. I can feel hot air coming out down there, but its probably just not enough to warm the space near the pedals. Anyone have this issue? I am pretty sure my system is operating correctly, so wanted to see what other people thought. I am probably just getting old.
Eco or Max (I.e. comfort)?I have noticed this with my 2016 volt: directing the heat to the floor zone isn't super effective at making it warmer near my feet. Even blasting it full seems to do little. I can feel hot air coming out down there, but its probably just not enough to warm the space near the pedals. Anyone have this issue? I am pretty sure my system is operating correctly, so wanted to see what other people thought. I am probably just getting old.
Good point, I've mostly noticed the cold feet at highway speeds too.I noticed the same thing up here in Western Canada [emoji1063] and it's only gone down to -30 so far this winter.
I find the heat is fine around town, even on Eco, but on the highway using on Max with ERDTT or Hold directing at the feat causes more windchill than it's worth.
Leaving the fans on Auto seems to optimize the flow better for these highway drives.
On a Gen 1 you just hit the defroster button, like most every other vehicle. Should the Gen 2 be able to detect a fogged windshield automatically?Same cold feet in my 2016. It doesn't bother me much.
The bigger problem: In auto mode my windshield fogs. I have to manually direct air to the windshield. I seem to recall a humidity sensor was supposed to take care of that.
acarney sounds to me like your dealer is wrong and your car has a problem. Either that or you have poor circulation.My feet are always cold when it's 20F or less outside (even if I'm using MAX and HI for the temp setting).
I had my car into the shop for a week last week to do the recall update and they verified my heat was working "as designed" and advised me to make sure I always used "MAX" and "HI" if I felt cold when it was really cold outside (the day they told me this it was 10F outside).
I've kinda given up on the heater "issues" since it's a lease and winter here usually isn't too bad past February. I see about 6kW of heating power when maxed. It preconditions really well and then the heat seems to blow crazy hot for awhile. When I switch to eco obviously it mellows out some and then when I switch to max again it doesn't always seem to get toasty warm like when preconditioned. I need to get some hard and fast data points but I just haven't had time for that.acarney sounds to me like your dealer is wrong and your car has a problem. Either that or you have poor circulation.
When I chimed in about it being cooler on the feet, I meant at -20 to -30C on the highway. There is plenty of heat even in Eco in town at -10 to -15 with the temp set to 23.