My loaner Air has the 20 way seats, and while the massage function is about as good as I could expect out of car seats, the ventilation feels incredibly weak. Max on the Air is maybe half the airflow of Low in our R1S. Anyone else feel the same way?
Thoughts on Air ventilated seats?
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The ventilated seats are not the car's strongest suit.
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What car are you normally driving? The Air has suction based ventilated seats, so you don't really feel the air blowing on you, it's in theory to pull heat away from the body. So it does take longer to get that first hit of cooling but maintains better...I generally leave it on 2 but use more HVAC fan. I have an Air loaner with a glass canopy and decided to use manual HVAC and just leave the fan on higher....
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Noisy. Difference maker when the car has baked in the sun? None.
Most of the time I only realize they are on because of the noise. An irritating hum that makes it just ever so slightly more difficult to hear parts of a track.
Most of the time I only realize they are on because of the noise. An irritating hum that makes it just ever so slightly more difficult to hear parts of a track.
They are kinda pitiful. My wife's Rivian sucks the air right outta ya shorts
I feel like they exist to check a box on paper in the "luxury" deparment, because they are awful.
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Turn on the floor vents and then turn on the ventilated seats. They work great, imho; they do take a bit longer to cool you but they maintain that cooling for longer too, in my experience. ymmv of course
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They came standard on my AGT when I bought it back in 2022. They're OK. A little on the weak side. if they were an extra cost option that I had to pay for I probably would not order them, but since I have them, as standard they help a little in the very hot weather.
They're quite nice if you precondition the HVAC and also turn on the vented seats. The feeling of dropping into cool seats on a hot day is wonderful. 
Overall I agree though, they're not the strongest but not the weakest vented seats I've ever felt.
Overall I agree though, they're not the strongest but not the weakest vented seats I've ever felt.
My Air, not this loaner, has standard seats. I’m comparing to Gen2 (if it matters) Rivian R1S. Firstly, they’re standard even in the base R1S we have. Secondly they are enormously more effective at cooling