Car Seat Burns Hole In Man's Pants

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DENVER -- Imagine getting into your car on a cold winter day. You have heated car seats and they heat up fast. Then, they get hotter and hotter, because something's burning.

That's the problem a Denver man reported to television station KMGH, which reported that the man is not the only one who got a "hot seat."

Across the country, almost 300 people have reported car seats that overheated, so the station wanted to know why nothing's being done.

David Malone was cold after a day of skiing, so he turned on his car seat heater and realized, as he put it, that his "biscuits were burning."

"It was surprising how hot it got and how fast it heated up," Malone told the station. "A few seconds later, I smelled some burning and then I saw some smoke coming up from the side by my seat."

The seat heater in his 2003 Volkswagen Passat not only burned a hole in his leather seats, but also scorched his ski pants.

"It kind of felt like a cigarette burn," he said.

http://www.wftv.com/automotive/4314889/detail.html

Take that purveyors of fancy vehicle amenities that I can't afford and therefore consider foolish and extravagant!

I can't take the cold.