Rich Melvin posted:MR_P posted:Yup, same thing with cars. Who really needs a heated steering wheel...
Have you ever owned a car with a heated steering wheel? That is the single BEST feature in my Jeep Grand Cherokee. You have no idea how useful and enjoyable that feature is on a cold, winter morning.
I rented a Jeep last year at an airport and got on the freeway in heavy traffic. My hands started to heat up and then burn. I had trouble just holding the steering wheel. I quickly deduced that the steering wheel was heated but I couldn't find a way to turn it off. This was the first vehicle that I have driven that had a heated steering wheel.
Finally, I had to pull off the freeway into a convenience store parking lot. I wan't going to burn my hands for the next 3 hours. There wasn't a manual in the rented Jeep.
I looked everywhere for an on/off button. There wasn't one. I started to push the buttons on the touch screen controls. I finally found Settings and then Controls and then Something else. The heater on/off button was about 3 screens down under Settings. It took me almost a half hour to figure out how to turn the heat off.
My Nissan has a seat heater physical on/off button. I don't know why Jeep couldn't have put a simple on/off button for the steering wheel heat in the vehicle. It is dangerous trying to figure out settings on a touch screen while driving in heavy traffic at freeway speeds. I am going to make sure that this feature is off before I leave the airport next time.
As far as model train smoke goes, I never use it. NH Joe
