What cars have heated windscreens?

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14 December 2012, 08:46 AM

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Now heated seats is a gimmick. Never had it myself but been in a few that have and by the time they warm up your car is warm anyway. If they heated up as fast as the front windscreen then they might be of some use.

I've had two cars with heated seats and they warm up within a minute or two, perfectly quick enough.

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14 December 2012, 09:06 AM

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Now heated seats is a gimmick. Never had it myself but been in a few that have and by the time they warm up your car is warm anyway.

I don't agree with this I'm afraid - I'm talking about a Legacy, Jag, AMG merc and an Astra.
Which model of vehicle are you talking about?

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14 December 2012, 10:04 AM

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Heated seats come in pretty handy when you are stranded by the side of the road with a dead engine in the current cold snap..

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14 December 2012, 12:52 PM

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Heated seat performance does vary enormously, wifies MX5 is within a minute or so and very effective, my car is a lot longer.

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14 December 2012, 01:03 PM

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http://www.heatedwindscreen.com/acat...html#a7927AGNH

You can get them for your Impreza-

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14 December 2012, 01:04 PM

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My old Golf's heated seats got pretty warm pretty quickly and that was an N reg!

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http://www.heatedwindscreen.com/

Only £205 for one for the Impreza....hmmmm

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14 December 2012, 01:07 PM

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Whoops

Must start to read threads in full before replying

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14 December 2012, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by simo

just got a ST TDCi mondeo and that has it along with heated seats

The front & rear screens automatically switch on when the temp is below 4deg!

Wow, not often a 6 year old thread comes in useful. Just bought an '07 ST TDCi mondeo this week as a daily driver, wondered why the heated screens came on automatically!

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15 December 2012, 06:49 AM

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I've got a focus ST, heated front windscreen and heated leather seats, got to love those features in this weather.
I love sitting there watching neighbours de icing their cars.

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15 December 2012, 07:58 AM

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Heated seats along with a/c is top of my list when buying a car!

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15 December 2012, 05:40 PM

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my heated seat warms up pretty quick !!...as "must" now on every car I buy

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16 December 2012, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by sti-04!!

Whats wrong with another focus ??

You can pick up a new 06 1.6 Tdci Sport for 9k. Great little cars.

Six years on...Having driven a one year old 61 plate 1.6TDCi 50miles on Thursday I was nearly suicidal with boredom. What happened? Focii used to be a fairly good drive for a hum drum everyday car, nowadays its a wallowy gutless lardy pile of poop....And it didn't have a quickclear screen either (optional extra).

Anyhoo, to answer the orginal question most cars that were under Ford ownership at some point have them, even though they aren't owned by Ford anymore; i.e Land Rover, Volvo, Jaguar.

The other thing to look for is diesel engine cars fitted with webasto heaters. This is a little diesel fueled heater that assists in heating the car (and engine). Some cars with these fitted (i.e BMW) can have them remotely activated via a keyfob to heat up the car

Also high-spec VAGs with diesel engines have electric heater elements in the heater. Not powerful, but they do aid in demisting quicker....My (petrol) Golf doesn't have one, but my mates TDI Bora has...his screen de-ices alot quicker than mine.

Although, all I have to do to sort that is spray the washer jets a few times - I've changed the BCU settings not to activate the wipers with the washers. In winter I run a 1:1 ratio of Quantum screenwash, which works as a very good de-icer. Spray, wait 10 seconds, then wipe.

Heater is still fecking cold and takes ages to warm up, but I have heated seats to help with that

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20 December 2012, 05:31 PM

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We've got a Range Rover & a Mini Cooper with heated screens - they are fantastic in the winter & clear the frost really quickly.

The Range Rover also has a heated steering wheel - I thought it was a gimmick, but on a cold morning, it's lovely....