Adding cooled seats after the fact

[House1989.]

Hello, can the cooled seats mechanism be added to the car after the purchase, it has the perforated seats with heat but no cool! Figured it can’t be that complicated to added via dealer. Any advice or parts I can purchase will be greatly appreciated

 

[sethsquire]

I think it would be prohibitively expensive. Honestly, I like the cooled seats, but I certainly wouldn't pay thousands of dollars for them.

 

[tarhoosier]

The seats are ventilated, not cooled. There is no cooling coil or circulating cooled liquid under the seat. There is a fan and when air conditioning is operating the coolest air is on the floor of the vehicle, same as in your home. The fan under the seat then forces this cooler air through the seat and perforations. This would require the wiring, dash controls which are integrated into the dash, and perhaps new seats entirely. Maybe trade in your car and buy one with the ventilated seats.

 

[EdP]

I think it would be prohibitively expensive. Honestly, I like the cooled seats, but I certainly wouldn't pay thousands of dollars for them.

Last week someone posted a photo of what is under the cushion. Not sure who for proper credit but here it is.

 

[carguy75]

Last week someone posted a photo of what is under the cushion. Not sure who for proper credit but here it is.
View attachment 33381

A bit off topic, but one of the hoses connected to the fan was disconnected(actually split and fell off) on my 2015 drivers seat which cause the seat to not cool and the cool seat button to reset after a minute. However, you can hear the fan running under the seat, but no air flow.

I was going to take my car in for service until I noticed the split disconnected hose when I removed the seat back and used insulation tape to patch it up and the cooled seats have been working fine for two years now. Just a tip for anyone that noticed the cooled seat stop working but hear the fan running.

To answer the OP question; adding a cooled seat to no cooled seat possible, but will be expensive to buy the needed parts since most of the parts are dealer only parts like the seat cooling parts/controls and will be a pain to wire it up to work correctly with the body control module.

 

[House1989.]

thank you all for the replies, yeah when I put the the AC on the floor I feel the cold air coming the through the holes. Figured adding a fan and a hose and done, just to give it a little more. Trading in might be the way to go!

 

[mikemu30]

The seats are ventilated, not cooled. There is no cooling coil or circulating cooled liquid under the seat. There is a fan and when air conditioning is operating the coolest air is on the floor of the vehicle, same as in your home. The fan under the seat then forces this cooler air through the seat and perforations. This would require the wiring, dash controls which are integrated into the dash, and perhaps new seats entirely. Maybe trade in your car and buy one with the ventilated seats.

Does the air blow through from the bottom of the seats or is it sucked through from the top the way most Ive had work? You can test this by placing a tissue or thin paper on the seat and turning on the cooling.

 

[carguy75]

Does the air blow through from the bottom of the seats or is it sucked through from the top the way most Ive had work? You can test this by placing a tissue or thin paper on the seat and turning on the cooling.

My guess would that the fan/blower located under the seat pulls cool air from under the seat and blows the air through the two air ducts that feed into the vents/pores in the seat bottom and rear back. The fan does have a filter over the inlet so it does not pick up contaminates from under the seat.

The setup is pretty visible in the picture in post #4

 

[canucklehead604]

i looked into this after my purchase. Genesis was not able to provide much support or costing for how the venting could be added. CAD 6MT trim has the perforated Sport seats but lack the venting. my main gripe with the car to be honest since i wanted that feature. Genesis CAD nailed the 6MT trim packaging in all other respects.

i also reached out to some custom interior shops locally. they said it was possible but echoed the cost issue. they suggested buying new/wrecker Sport seats that have venting, then adding electrical and dash controls. but my hope was to retrofit to the current seats to avoid any other headaches. initially my hope was that my seats had the venting parts under the seat but simply lacked the harness connections and dash control. this would have minimized different seat part #'s for Genesis and simplified their orders. pretty certain now that this is not the case.

alas, i dropped the search and my interest waned. i'd have gladly paid extra for this option, probably would have been a $500 option if it was available here like it is in KDM. but i'm not invested enough to fork out thousands and risk fabrication/electrical issues.

 

[Tigerman68]

Does anyone have any recommendations for a G80 cooled seat cushion?

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