Did you program them to come on in your Vehicle Personalization?My seat heaters NEVER are on when i precondition the car. There is a setting that appears for this that i have set to Yes, but makes no difference.
What am i missing?
I believe this is only for when the car is turned "on," not for preconditioning. Check out page 146 "remote start auto heated seats." The two should operate independently of each other--at least they did in the Gen 1. I could enable remote-start heated seats, but still leave the "auto" heated seats off when the car was running.Did you program them to come on in your Vehicle Personalization?
Pg 143 in your manual
https://cdn.dealereprocess.net/cdn/servicemanuals/chevrolet/2017-volt.pdf
Auto Heated Seats
When enabled, the AUTO heated seat buttons on the touch screen will be highlighted. This feature will automatically activate heated seats at the level required by the interior temperature. The auto heated seats can be turned off by using the heated seat buttons on the center stack.
Select Off or On.
Good catch...it seems that it disappeared during one of my edits of that post...I believe this is only for when the car is turned "on," not for preconditioning. Check out page 146 "remote start auto heated seats." The two should operate independently of each other--at least they did in the Gen 1. I could enable remote-start heated seats, but still leave the "auto" heated seats off when the car was running.
I did read the manual. So be astounded by someone else. I have this set to true but the seats don't heat until i start the car....it just astounds me the number of owners who never really read the manuals...
Check fuses F7, F8 (Front Heated Seats) in the rear compartment fuse block. It would be unusual for both front seat heater fuses to be bad but maybe they forgot to install the fuses. Also, F21 is the fuse for the rear heated seat. See page 270 of the 2017 Volt Owner's Manual.The heat is set at 77 on days when the temp is less than 10. And I would know if the seats were heated when i put my fanny on them whether the lights are on or not...they aren't.
You are correct, if the fuses were missing then the seat heaters would not work at all.Thanks but if these were out then the seat heaters would likely not work at all, right? Mine work, but don't come on when conditioning but do come on when i start the car via ignition.
...it just astounds me the number of owners who never really read the manuals...