Eat crow much?

[Howard]

Probably not as much as this guy:

http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2006/05/heated_steering.html

 

[basslover1]

His window analogy was fucking retarded. Mommy goes into the store and leaves daddy and kids in the car without the keys. Who the fuck does that?

 

[Throckmorton]

I love how EVERY commenter flamed him for his idiotic post.

You don't have to live in a very cold place to appreciate heated wheels either... 32F in Houston was cold enough that I wished I had a heated steering wheel.

 

[PricklyPete]

I just get irritated by "holier" than though people who go off and judge people on how they spend their money. He's voted with his wallet, that's great...now shut up.

 

[JCH13]

He seemed to have a problem with the time spent engineering a way to get wires into the steering wheel... err... airbags? Stereo control buttons? Cruise control buttons? It's a solved problem.

 

[LTC8K6]

Does this guy even know how to drive? Sounds like he doesn't know anything at all about modern cars.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Heated steering where would be nice... a lot more usefull than heated seat IMO...

My hands get cold pretty often in the cold, my ass doesn't.

 

[ShawnD1]

Having a heated steering wheel would suck. After a couple minutes of driving I usually take my gloves off because it's getting too hot (wear gloves while clearing snow off the windows with a brush). If the wheel itself was hot, that would just piss me off.

 

[Fenixgoon]

i find the funniest part being the railing against what i assume is the cayenne, porsche's most profitable vehicle by far.

definitely eating crow

 

[Zargon]

his shit gets better

OMG his chinese LED bulbs he bought at 10% of market value arent UL approved!
http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2010/12/the-problem-of-led-bulbs-from-china-via-ebay.html

 

[ShawnD1]

his shit gets better

OMG his chinese LED bulbs he bougbht at 10% of market value arent UL approved!
http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2010/12/the-problem-of-led-bulbs-from-china-via-ebay.html

lol I thought you were going to link something that's not that bad, but wow this is bad.

Then, suddenly, I was relieved that the LED bulbs did not work, for I realized that they were not CSA or UL approved. Had they caused a fire in my home, my insurance might not cover the cost of the damage.

Oh shit! Dodging bullets today folks.

 

[LTC8K6]

Having a heated steering wheel would suck. After a couple minutes of driving I usually take my gloves off because it's getting too hot (wear gloves while clearing snow off the windows with a brush). If the wheel itself was hot, that would just piss me off.

Yeah, it's probably too much trouble to turn it off once you're comfy...

 

[Howard]

Having a heated steering wheel would suck. After a couple minutes of driving I usually take my gloves off because it's getting too hot (wear gloves while clearing snow off the windows with a brush). If the wheel itself was hot, that would just piss me off.

Turn it off?

 

[ShawnD1]

Turn it off?

How many things am I supposed to be fucking with? Now I need to deal with the car, the heated seat, the heat from the engine, my gloves, AND a heated steering wheel? This shit is too complicated.


Of course if you had a cloth steering wheel instead of leather, you wouldn't need it to be heated in the first place. That's something I've never understood about leather in cars. You know leather has very high heat conductivity, you know it's brutally hot when it's hot and you know it's icy cold when it's cold, but you pick it anyway then try to fix your own self inflicted problem by heating or cooling the material that has high heat conductivity. It makes absolutely no sense.
I should upstage everyone and put copper mesh on my seats. When it's hot, it should be painful to sit in the car without first running the AC for 5 minutes. That's how hardcore rich I am

The gloves I wear for clearing off snow and driving are just your standard $1 gloves from the dollar store.

 

[Vette73]

You all do know this was from 2006 right?

 

[Throckmorton]

Having a heated steering wheel would suck. After a couple minutes of driving I usually take my gloves off because it's getting too hot (wear gloves while clearing snow off the windows with a brush). If the wheel itself was hot, that would just piss me off.

All you do when it gets too hot is switch off the heat.

 

[Howard]

How many things am I supposed to be fucking with? Now I need to deal with the car, the heated seat, the heat from the engine, my gloves, AND a heated steering wheel? This shit is too complicated.

Watch out for the streetlights and posted signs too.

 

[mmntech]

I f---ing love heated steering wheels. Just thought I'd throw that out there. I always have cold hands.

 

[Apex]

i find the funniest part being the railing against what i assume is the cayenne, porsche's most profitable vehicle by far.

Sadly, soooooooo many people I know do that. They simply don't understand that their precious 911 would be nowhere close to what it is if all of the $$$ from the Cayenne wasn't there to support the R&D.

 

[thescreensavers]

last year when it was really cold in S. FL I finally understood what steering wheel heaters where for lol.

 

[DarkThinker]

Heated steering wheels FTW.

It's cold plenty in here, I have heated seats, but every winter morning the cold makes me wish I was getting into an STS over my CTS. The STS has a heated steering wheel while the CTS for some strange reason doesn't get that option.

Why? Do STS drivers get cold hands while CTS drivers don't?

 

[ayabe]

I use my heated seats almost every day for the past couple weeks, in FL. It's nice to have until the heater comes up to temp. Heated steering would have less utility for me since my hands are rarely every cold.

If I was were up north, hell yes I would want that.

What I really want though is ventilated leather seats, that is awesome in the summer. Drove a 370z convertible over the summer and it was nice to keep my nuts from roasting in the FL sun.

 

[hanoverphist]

my mom has heated grips on her sportster 1200. she loves them. i dont have any heater in my truck at all. kids hate it.

 

[DivideBYZero]

I love my heated seats, so how can a heated steering wheel be bad?

 

[ShawnD1]

I love my heated seats, so how can a heated steering wheel be bad?

Maybe not if it's a Honda or something, but European cars are famous for being shitily made. While some people rant about American car reliability, recent surveys usually put Japanese cars on top, then American cars, then in a distant third is European cars. Porsche is made by Volkwagen if that gives you any indication. Volkwagen also owns Audi, and we know how shitty those are.