My biggest gripe with my new Advanced, is with the seat heater switch. First, it's location is kind of hidden and out of the way. It's setting can easily get ignored. Which is important because the switch type is a hard 3 position rocker. It stays where it as last set, period. It does not reset when the car is powered down. In my Cadillac, the heat setting switch is a soft one, and gradually, reduces its setting, as the car gets warmer, obviously saving energy. It also does not automatically re-activate after powering down. It seems odd that Toyota being so energy conscious in so many other areas of design, would over look this.
An interesting comment on engineering; my guess is the people who came up with the seat heater setup live in a warm climate, where heated seats are an afterthought. In my 2012 PIP, I had the same setup, but it never bothered me; I never used it, never needed it. It's the same with my Prime; never use heated seats; for us temperate zone turkeys, it doesn't matter. The engineers just have to be more empathetic to all their clients. Unfortunately nobody's perfect. I'm sure comments like these will eventually move a great company like Toyota in the right direction. .
the worst part is, this was a huge complaint on the pip, and with all their so called 'focus groups', they didn't fix it.
Yep, my Gen 3 Toyota has the odd placing of the heated seat control. I have *never* understood that. I never need it here, but it's in such a place that I can't turn it on while sitting in the seat...
Not such a problem in Minnesota. You just switch it on in October and off again in April. No big deal.
Just bought a 2018 Prime, loving it. Managed to find the front seat heater switches, but there's another switch on far right, above the hidden location of the individual seat switches. Pushing this switch toggles between "driver's seat" and "all seats", with a graphic in Multi screen showing all four seats. Driver's seat shows ON, all seats shows OFF. I can find nothing in the manual showing this, and nothing I've found anywhere online, including this forum, mentions this. Can anyone tell me more? How do I toggle the "all seats" to ON?
Toyota definitely could've placed the seat heater switch somewhere more assessable, but after awhile the location started to grow on me. IMO I do not like where the 2020 seat heater switch are located, definitely at risk for spills, dirt, grime build up.
