Heated Steering Wheel

always wondered how the coils were laid out!

What camera did you use to do that?

Nice. In my previous car (Toyota) the "heated" steering wheel only got warm at the 3:00 and 9:00 positions. Very uncomfortable.

I feel like it always gets hotter at 10 and 2.

Looks like a FLIR mobile device

This is the kinda stuff I use my FLIR for (at least for troubleshooting). Nice.

I feel like an idiot using my FLIR only for checking insulation.

That’s hot 🥵

I’ve used my camera on the heated seat. They look pretty cool too, but the quality of this thermal image is crazy. What device is this?

Interesting

Yeah our RAV4 prime works the same. Kind of a mind boggling design decision.

Yet we still can't tell the precondition to not heat up the steering wheel and the passenger seat.

Oh man I bring my camera everywhere just to see all kinds of random stuff lol

🙂‍↕️

Polaroid

So freaking cool

Thats a cool image. Negated?? Pun intended. :)

Now take the same pic of the Highland’s vented seats. Pretty sure they do nothing. 🤣

If I had space to park a 3rd car I would have kept the R4P but we only have space for two, so the R4p got traded for the Model Y. So far I'm very happy. And yeah, there are some things on the R4P that left me wondering what Toyota was thinking. The so called heated steering wheel was one of them.

You can manually turn them off in the app. I get what you are saying though.

If only there was something in the car to detect my constant actions of turning them off each and every morning. Luckily it isn't cold anymore.

do you grip 10 and 2 more than 9 and 3?

The scroll wheels are so colddddddd 🥶

Wish it extended into the scrollwheel surround plastic parts as they are ice cold in the morning in winter.

don’t need it. i use FSD so i never touch the steering wheel.

What camera is this? The quality is great.

still mad that I bought the old flir with the old iphone connector. Can't use it with my new phone. I think I might have an iphone 4 around here somewhere

Leica

Geez that picture gives me a weird feeling like when you see a bunch of holes

What model Tesla is this? My Juniper seems to be lacking some of the heating coils on top.

My Hasselblad X2D2 doesn’t have this thermal mode …

Ah this is dope! Give us the seats please 🙏

Mine is a ‘23 MYP

https://preview.redd.it/canme444m8ng1.png?width=1320&format=png&auto=webp&s=ca77be91180c9ddd15c571496fb1cfff048c6e03 Passenger seat!

https://preview.redd.it/8vb97a58m8ng1.png?width=1320&format=png&auto=webp&s=dee4a02685ec80a85e32af51f71c55ae5dd63e4e Rear seats!

rear seat center on high is for when I'm bringing pizza home in the winter.

I wonder what it looks if you have you your ventilated seats on AC if you have those

I feel like where my finger tips are resting is always cold though, on the seam behind the steering wheel :/ But still my favourite feature of the car

I have noticed on long drives that the heated seat and steering wheel only lasts for 40 minutes and then it gets cold. Even if you turn it off and on again, even if you have enough battery... 2022 Model Y Anyone else have this experience?

More like 3.5 and 9.5

On colder days I just leave it on the low setting to sustain the heat. Anything above that it’s just too hot over 30 seconds for me.

I've always appreciated how over engineered this feature has felt. I currently also have a Lucid and it sucks by comparison.

I second this

I'll have to try that. I noticed that in this cold Minnesota weather it just cant keep the cabin warm, and then the seats help but only for about that 40 minutes, but I have them on the hottest setting Also this is on the freeway so driving like 70+ and I think the wind overpowers the cabin heat I am going to use my brother's FLIR today and compare starting heat to 20 and 40 minutes out to see what it looks like. Thanks for the idea :)

I love this feature too. The only thing that irritates me is that when I use FSD, Tesla still heats up the wheel, even though I don't use it.

Is this a Juniper or a Legacy y?

Legacy

Awesome because I have a legacy and I did not realize that all of the seats except the center rear heated up the back rest

Is it because that’s where the vent blows hot air?

I’m surprised it still works! My FLIR with the lightning connector auto-bricked itself, and based on my searching around thereafter, it sounds like most did that… An intentional move on FLIR’s part. If yours still works, you can probably get some decent coin for it on eBay.

TOPDON TC001 Plus

I literally was telling my kid the other day it’s a waste for me to turn his seat warmer on bc his booster seat covers the part actually getting warm. I stand corrected my little dude.

Interesting, I've got a little bitty cold spot at 6 o clock that's noticeable when it's around -15°C or below.