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My seat warmers do not come on either. However, according to the Civic Training Guide for salesman, it says they should. See screenshot.

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My seat warmers have definitely not come on, and the defrost doesn't come on either. It seems like it basically just blowing air to get the temp to 72. :(
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Canadian EX model here, the seat heaters turn on for me as well as front/rear defrosters when doing a remote start. I find it's more noticeable once it drops below 14 F (-10 C).

Also, the range on the key fob is pretty good; I can start my car while sitting in my office and the car is but a small black dot in the parking lot. A warm, cozy small black dot, mind you.
 

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I have the Canadian LX with a car starter installed from Honda that shows if the car is started or not and how warm the car is but if you unlock the car it turns off.
You have to start the car again when you sit inside... Why Honda...
 

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if you have the seat heaters on when you turn off the car, will they be on when you do the remote start?
 

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if you have the seat heaters on when you turn off the car, will they be on when you do the remote start?
Test it. I'm betting no.
 


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if you have the seat heaters on when you turn off the car, will they be on when you do the remote start?
I my Touring, they do not turn on, regardless of the previous position. A lot of promise. Very little delivery.
 

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if you have the seat heaters on when you turn off the car, will they be on when you do the remote start?
No. You have to turn them on every time you get in the car. If you have a touring model the back ones will stay on because they are more of a switch hi - lo
 

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Maybe the reason most people, including myself, think the seat heaters really don't work with auto start is that it apparently starts "in low mode" (per the video above). The manual specifies "the HI setting heats the seats faster than the LO setting." In using the heaters, I've noticed that it is true; HI gives a much faster warm up. I warm my seats on HI, and then turn to a lower setting if needed. I would never purposefully try to heat the seats by starting them in low - experience tells me it takes quite a while to note any warmth with this method. Odd Honda decided to defeat their own purpose here.
 


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Odd Honda decided to defeat their own purpose here.
They might have been considering the amount of current they would draw from the battery of a cold, idling, car. And 85% of the time or something like that, they'd be heating up the passenger's seat for nothing.
 

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Driver's at medium, passenger at low would have been a compromise, though I don't think battery drain would really be an issue with a running car. I start my car and immediately turn on the rear defrost and heated seats on high, radio with several speakers running, etc. and have no issues - even if I leave it to warm up for a while (and therefore just have it idling).
 

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I don't think battery drain would really be an issue with a running car.
I suspect even in the case you describe you are not, net, charging the battery while the car is idling--i.e., more amps being used than being replaced by alternator at idle. They have to engineer an ampacity budget for aged battery and probably much colder conditions and some worst case like the car runs ten minutes like this, shuts down, gets restarted, runs another ten minutes like this, shuts down and then has to be started a third time. At any rate, I'm sure they picked the setting they use for a reason besides just to disappoint owners. My '99 SLK230 would cycle the seat heaters, if you ran them on high and were idling, just to avoid a net discharge condition--this was explicitly documented in the manual.
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