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      09-23-2016, 09:40 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by DaveCM5 View Post
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the fan turn on but there's really no cool air sensation coming out of them. In fact, sometimes I wonder if it actually turned the heater on rather than the ventilation when it's really hot out. When I'm standing outside the car and feel the air when the seat is turned on I can feel a slight coolness of the air coming out, but when you're sitting in the seat it's almost as if you're squishing the air channels and no air can blow out.
The F10 ventilated seats do not blow air out the holes - they suck it in. It is not A/C air coming out, but ambient air that is drawn away from you, thereby giving a cooling effect.
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