Help - Cold feet

[john19951]

New M3LR owner, first long trip. Three hours to Norfolk Monday (mixed weather - 15C, showers). Found the hot bum button by accident within seconds.

Spent the whole of the journey looking for the hot feet button. I stopped five times trying different settings of the heating/climate controls as well as pressing all kinds of buttons as I was driving.

Surely can't be that difficult - hoping there is an answer, or this car is going.

 

[adsheff]

What's up? Are your feet too hot or too cold?

Tap the fan icon at the bottom, you'll get the AC controls screen. The blue and grey buttons on the right hand side control whether the air comes out at the windscreen, the middle vents and the foot vents. Just tap them on and off as you desire. You can also drag the middle vents around with two fingers to adjust which way it blows.

I've always had cold feet on long journeys in old fashioned cars, and have found that the Model 3 doesn't get as cold at foot-level, presumably because the thick battery provides more insulation underneath, and it warms up itself as you drive so whilst it never gets hot, it seems to take the cold edge off the floor that fossil cars have in the winter (October-May in the UK).

 

[btc1k]

From the Manual.

Foot level vents. Switch on.

 

[adsheff]

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From the Manual.

Foot level vents. Switch on.

The buttons are on the opposite site on a UK RHD car.

 

[Mrklaw]

The buttons are on the opposite site on a UK RHD car.

here you go

 

[tomorrowman]

Good socks

 

[Adopado]

here you go

...and again:

 

[HenryT]

You could just use the voice control and say "my feet are cold".

 

[Alic01]

You could just use the voice control and say "my feet are cold".

I was just going to say this, seems every 2021 Model 3 youtuber has done a voice commands video in the last fortnight, this is one of the commands i actually remembered!!

 

[john19951]

Thanks for all the replies, but still not clear how to direct warm air to the foot well. I am sure I tried all possible settings on my Monday trip.

I will try again on the return trip tomorrow.

It took me five minutes to set the heating on my new Dacia, a car which is fraction of the cost of this Model 3. (and for those who enjoy amusing replies, no I can't just use the Dacia for the return journey, it is stuck in a garage in France - unused and unreachable).

 

[john19951]

I was just going to say this, seems every 2021 Model 3 youtuber has done a voice commands video in the last fortnight, this is one of the commands i actually remembered!!

Thanks, will try that on a short trip this morning. At least Norfolk is cold enough for a meaningful test.

 

[Alic01]

To direct air to your feet its the lower button of section 4 on the screenshot above, take it out of auto, temperature and fan speed up should give you nice toasty feet.

Using the screen looks more complicated but control wise they have this right i think, its pretty much identical to the controls on higher level climate control units

 

[Jason71]

To direct air to your feet its the lower button of section 4 on the screenshot above, take it out of auto, temperature and fan speed up should give you nice toasty feet.

Using the screen looks more complicated but control wise they have this right i think, its pretty much identical to the controls on higher level climate control units

it is possible there is a fault. but if you do this and you reach down and still cannot feel anything going to your feet then I guess that would tell you but
likewise if you put it on auto and it never sends air to your feet that could also be a temp sensor failure I guess. if it auto allocates the air stream presumably it must have several sensors. could be a faulty on in the foot well.

 

[MrBadger]

Wasn't there a poll about cold feet?

I must admit that in our car, footwell temperature seems down on what is coming through the face/screen vents. To the point that I turn off footwell ventilation. Its made a slight difference. I don't think I can ever recall having particularly toasty warm feet at any point. We may well have sub par footwell heating, but its a tricky one to prove to Tesla.

 

[Adopado]

Wasn't there a poll about cold feet?

I must admit that in our car, footwell temperature seems down on what is coming through the face/screen vents. To the point that I turn off footwell ventilation. Its made a slight difference. I don't think I can ever recall having particularly toasty warm feet at any point. We may well have sub par footwell heating, but its a tricky one to prove to Tesla.

There was one on hot feet!

Hot Roasted Feet

Hi Guys. I am finding when selecting feet with the temp set to 22 deg C, that my shoes and feet are getting incredibly hot. So hot that I have to turn it off after 10min. Heating seems to be flat out rather than regulated. Anyone else found that or do I have a problem? Cheers Rich.

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[MrBadger]

Here we go. It was more about hot feet though even though I think I voted cold feet. 25% voted cold (pre facelift cars) so I am not alone.

Bjorn's Model 3 Hot Footwells [poll]

Anyone else suffer from this issue? As you will see the footwells can get as hot as 50 degrees C or more. Not noticed it on my M3P, but a disturbingly large number of people in the comments on his YT video suggest this is fairly common. Going to try to check it out on our Model 3. Link to...

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[Country Boy]

Another vote here for cold feet syndrome.

I have pressed the button as described, but all that happens is cold air is passed to the feet unless I turn the temp up to 25+... then the rest of me roasts....

I have the same problem in the Ioniq, but have never had this problem in an ICE...

 

[john19951]

I very much appeciate all your replies and suggestions. Today's drive was too short to be a worthwhile test.

Will see what happens on the drive back tomorrow.

 

[AndrewGR]

My observation is that hot air to the footwell isn’t very evenly distributed. In cold weather, left foot gets hot, right doesn’t. And sometimes I have to override the auto mode to warm my feet.

 

[GRiLLA]

How hot do you want your feet? It's not very cold at the moment even at 8:30 my car cooled the cabin back to 20 rather than warming.

As well as directing the air, you would have to turn the target temperature to High in order to get it to produce heat