Same deal here. No use in taking it to the dealer's mechanics who have no clue, and will give your car the proverbial wall job (park it up against a wall for an extended period of time without trying to find the problem, and then return it saying everything is fine).
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I am tired of cold feet. Since the weather got colder and I have been in my EV6FE for longer periods of time, I am getting more and more frustrated by the lack of decent warm air flow to my feet. No matter what settings I use, my feet never warm up.
I sent an email to Kia and got a response stating "If you have the settings at your feet and no heat is coming out either the pipe work is faulty or the flap that directs the heat to the feet is."
I took the car to the dealer who kept it all day only to be told everything was working fine. As it was explained to me, most of the air is directed to the passenger side foot well, with less to the driver side, which seems contrary. After getting the car back, directing all flow to the floor and cranking up the fan, I could detect some warm airflow to the passenger side and if I used my imagination, a little flow to the driver side. Selecting the driver only option had no effect on what was happening to the driver side foot well.
Has anyone been able to figure out how to get more warm air to the foot area?
I sent an email to Kia and got a response stating "If you have the settings at your feet and no heat is coming out either the pipe work is faulty or the flap that directs the heat to the feet is."
I took the car to the dealer who kept it all day only to be told everything was working fine. As it was explained to me, most of the air is directed to the passenger side foot well, with less to the driver side, which seems contrary. After getting the car back, directing all flow to the floor and cranking up the fan, I could detect some warm airflow to the passenger side and if I used my imagination, a little flow to the driver side. Selecting the driver only option had no effect on what was happening to the driver side foot well.
Has anyone been able to figure out how to get more warm air to the foot area?
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Same deal here. No use in taking it to the dealer's mechanics who have no clue, and will give your car the proverbial wall job (park it up against a wall for an extended period of time without trying to find the problem, and then return it saying everything is fine).
Same deal here..I am unable to detect any warm air on my feet...while I get plenty of heat coming out of the other vents.I am tired of cold feet. Since the weather got colder and I have been in my EV6FE for longer periods of time, I am getting more and more frustrated by the lack of decent warm air flow to my feet. No matter what settings I use, my feet never warm up.
I sent an email to Kia and got a response stating "If you have the settings at your feet and no heat is coming out either the pipe work is faulty or the flap that directs the heat to the feet is."
I took the car to the dealer who kept it all day only to be told everything was working fine. As it was explained to me, most of the air is directed to the passenger side foot well, with less to the driver side, which seems contrary. After getting the car back, directing all flow to the floor and cranking up the fan, I could detect some warm airflow to the passenger side and if I used my imagination, a little flow to the driver side. Selecting the driver only option had no effect on what was happening to the driver side foot well.
Has anyone been able to figure out how to get more warm air to the foot area?
Obviously this is a problem across the board as numerous other forum members have taken their EV6 into the dealer with this problem only to be told that nothing is wrong....I don't get it!
Also have had the same issues. Just a guess but I would bet the hose that brings in the air and maybe the vent hole is a lot smaller then the other hoses and vents that supply warm air to the rest of the cabin.
I think you are correct. Appears to be a design flaw. I can get plenty of heat and airflow directed to the cabin, but with the heat directed to the floor, there is virtually no air flow regardless of how high the fan setting is. If I raise the temperature to 82F and maximize the fan speed with the flow to the floor, there is enough leakage from the upper vents to make me uncomfortably warm while my feet are still cold.Also have had the same issues. Just a guess but I would bet the hose that brings in the air and maybe the vent hole is a lot smaller then the other hoses and vents that supply warm air to the rest of the cabin.
The ironic thing is that most systems when set to auto will send the heat to the foot vents, as the heat will then rise into the rest of the cabin.
Now I'm kinda hoping that Kia were lazy and used same ducting for LHD and RHD cars & so that our UK cars get more heat to driver's side and less to passenger...As it was explained to me, most of the air is directed to the passenger side foot well, with less to the driver side, which seems contrary. After getting the car back, directing all flow to the floor and cranking up the fan, I could detect some warm airflow to the passenger side and if I used my imagination, a little flow to the driver side. Selecting the driver only option had no effect on what was happening to the driver side foot well.
Are you wearing open-toe shoes? Not to be wise, but if you have socks and shoes on and you are still too cold, you might have a medical issue to look into.
No - Close- toed shoes and socks. The fact is virtually no warm air is being sent to the foot wells.Are you wearing open-toe shoes? Not to be wise, but if you have socks and shoes on and you are still too cold, you might have a medical issue to look into.
I just went out to my Wind RWD (no heat pump) and tried it. With it set to heat and A/C on, fan at 8, output to floor, and temperature to 82F, I got a pretty good blast of air out of the vent located over the brake pedal. A little air came out the driver's dashboard vent, but nothing out the rest. The air was warm but not uncomfortably hot. The vent has four outlets.
Power usage was about 3.2kW for the climate control. This dropped to about 1.1kW if it was on driver only, so you might get less heat overall in that mode.
It's 60F here right now so I can't do a real cold weather test.
Power usage was about 3.2kW for the climate control. This dropped to about 1.1kW if it was on driver only, so you might get less heat overall in that mode.
It's 60F here right now so I can't do a real cold weather test.
What's sort of ironic about this matter is that the same floor vents that apparently aren't directing enough warm air flow to the floor can apparently direct enough cold air during warmer months, such that folks compliment about how it helps the cooling seat function cool the seats pretty well.
Try heating in normal driving mode, not eco đź‘Ť eco not only slows acceleration, it reduces the heat and air flow đź‘Ť I believe the thermostat is located in the mirror console đź‘Ť try setting to 23c, or 73f, on auto setting 3, and on whole car, not driver only đź‘Ť
Where the thermal sensor is located (and there may be more than one) will definitely have an effect on the climate response. Being in the mirror console would not be ideal as this would place it at the highest and warmest place in the vehicle, often in direct sunlight. There is eco mode for the drivetrain, but there seems to be an eco mode for climate control as well. In our case, AWD with heat pump, the problem now seems to be intermittent, with unpredictable random fluctuations. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it does not.Try heating in normal driving mode, not eco đź‘Ť eco not only slows acceleration, it reduces the heat and air flow đź‘Ť I believe the thermostat is located in the mirror console đź‘Ť try setting to 23c, or 73f, on auto setting 3, and on whole car, not driver only đź‘Ť
The interior temperature sensor is behind the panel directly to the right of the steering column. Note the little vent in it. (Probably on the left in right-hand drive models.)
There's also a sun sensor next to the center speaker.
The default is to reduce the climate control power if the drive mode is Eco, but you can disable that.
There's also a sun sensor next to the center speaker.
The default is to reduce the climate control power if the drive mode is Eco, but you can disable that.
Made this little video for you, hope it helps đź‘Ť
streamable.com
Difference in power used for heating from eco to normal driving mode
Watch "Difference in power used for heating from eco to normal driving mode" on Streamable.
Do you mean there is a setting such that Eco drive mode leaves the A/C in normal climate mode?The default is to reduce the climate control power if the drive mode is Eco, but you can disable that.
Setup -> Vehicle -> Climate -> Climate Features -> Climate Control ECO Mode
I have the same issue in my RWD Wind - hot air does not seem to be coming out the foot vents as much as it should be. I can detect some air just exiting the vent but not enough to warm the space at the pedals. I may add a flap / deflector to see if it is an issue with the direction of the air flow.
Will have to try turning off ECO mode and see if directing heat to the footwell sees an increase in air flow and heating.
As a work around, when I can't seem to get my feet or lower legs warm, I put the air flow into mid and lower setting and push the dash air vents pointing down toward to floor. Also up the temp and increase the fan speed to 3. This helps but is not ideal solution.
As a work around, when I can't seem to get my feet or lower legs warm, I put the air flow into mid and lower setting and push the dash air vents pointing down toward to floor. Also up the temp and increase the fan speed to 3. This helps but is not ideal solution.
There were some early 2021 models in Europe that had the same heater problem. It’s possible some are resurfacing again.
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