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      07-08-2021, 09:33 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by mirob View Post
FWIW, BMW ventilated seats do not blow air, they suck air into the seat - unless something has changed recently. They remove moisture from your back end. Judging from these reviews, nothing has changed. That's why you aren't feeling cold air blow.
This! the distinction is really important to understanding how they work, whenever one reads ventiliated seats, they pull air AWAY from the back side to dry and and feel cooler and dryer. Cooled seats, such as Fords, use the same tech as the quiet beverage coolers to blow cooled air at the back side. My guess is most OEMs go with ventilated because it is simpler gives basically the same net effect (less wet backside) and is less power hungry

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