Heated /cooled seats

[Wheelj1]

I have a 2010 genesis 4.6 which has the heated seats only. Does anyone know if cooling seat is built into the same unit? And if so how hard is it to activate it


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[homeofstone]

driver seat in your car should have the cooling function.

 

[Mark_888]

The 2009 Genesis V8 only had cooling with the Tech Package. I know that at some point, Tech Package was included as standard for all 4.6 models, but not sure if that applies to 2010 model year.

 

[Gurkha]

I believe the Tech package was standard as of MY 2011 in 4.6's in the U.S and MY 2010 in Canada.

 

[Mark_888]

I believe the Tech package was standard as of MY 2011 in 4.6's in the U.S and MY 2010 in Canada.

Tech Package was standard with 2011 4.6 (and 2012), but not sure about 2010.

 

[Ruissimo]

http://hyundainews.com/us/en-us/2010/Genesis/Features.aspx

In summary - it was an option in 2010.

 

[mikec]

No, the cooling unit + fan is totally separate from the heater unit.
It's basically a flattened air pipe with a centrally mounted fan and a thermoelectric cooler unit at one end. It doesn't look difficult to install; I don't know if the extra wiring is in your car or not however. Odds are though you'll find 2 extra connectors near/underneath the seat... if so, the wiring is likely there. Why do I think the odds favor the wiring being there? Because the wiring for the lighted door sills of V8 cars happens to be present on the V6 cars as well - as other folks have noted when they install the lighted door sills. Wiring harnesses are very expensive items to design/test so it's common for one "all encompassing" harness design to be used for all variants of a particular car model.

Go to www.hmaservice.com and sign up for free... then you can access the factory service manuals yourself. Look for the body electrical chapter; it's pretty big. Install a "PDF Print driver" on your computer from somewhere and you can "print" the whole service manual to a PDF file on your computer.

mike c.

 

[pilotdane]

If the wiring is present I wonder if it would be cheaper/easier to check junk yards for a whole drivers seat instead of trying to install the cooling components in a non-cooled seat.

 

[Wheelj1]

Thanks everyone for the info!

 

[Mark_888]

If the wiring is present I wonder if it would be cheaper/easier to check junk yards for a whole drivers seat instead of trying to install the cooling components in a non-cooled seat.

The way some of the 4.6 owners on this forum drive their Genesis Sedans, there may a lot of them in junk yards.

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[pilotdane]

Well if you 3.8 guys would get out of the way we wouldn't have to rear end so many of you.

 

[Ruissimo]

http://car-part.com/index.htm

Someone on here posted this in another topic. Might find a good seat on here - may have to do some searching, and call some people.