Go into infotainment menu. Click A/C, tick auto windscreen heating.

 

Click set up on the climate controls and there is a button on the touch screen I that menu

 

It works in conjuction with the demist blower button. Took me a while to work it out too!

 

I’ve exactly the same model - didn’t even know it had a heated windscreen 😂

 

Thanks all - but there’s no a/c heated windscreen option on the a/c panel in the infotainment system. I’ll post up some photos if that helps? This is why it’s so confusing!

 

 

So those are all the heater related controls. Nothing I can see that relates to setting the heated windscreen option so it comes on with the front screen demist function. It’s just weird, since the wires are definitely there physically in the screen and I though all lux spec models would have that feature

 

It doesn't look as though yours has got it!

This is what you should have

The button is under the auto on the screen

Mine is a 20 plate Xcellence Lux and it has those controls

 

But the physical heated windscreen with wires is there…no-one would install such windscreen (they are reportedly massively more expensive) without having that function?

and it was on all the lux level models?

this is what i just can’t understand

 

I’ll post up a photo of the windscreen in the morning when it’s light.

 

It's a strange one as like you say it has the screen and it's also the correct model to have it too!

 

I wonder if the screens were introduced before the software was phased in? The way procurement systems work means that sort of thing happens.

 

Could you try updating your infotainment system? When I picked my car up recently it seems it had never been updated!

Also I wonder if it's as simple as it not being selected as an option within the model/coding choices within the ECU. You can usually code things like this on and off to say one particular model has this feature and another doesn't and therefore not to show the option on the customer facing menu screens. Maybe yours isn't coded in but should have been?

You could try asking the dealer or if you have someone local with VW diagnostics they may be able to look and turn it on for you if that is the issue?

Cheers

 

Could you try updating your infotainment system? When I picked my car up recently it seems it had never been updated!

Also I wonder if it's as simple as it not being selected as an option within the model/coding choices within the ECU. You can usually code things like this on and off to say one particular model has this feature and another doesn't and therefore not to show the option on the customer facing menu screens. Maybe yours isn't coded in but should have been?

You could try asking the dealer or if you have someone local with VW diagnostics they may be able to look and turn it on for you if that is the issue?

Cheers

Morning - thanks for the help. I would have no idea how to update the infotainment - is that a dealer thing? but I do know it had the central locking update when in for a service earlier in the year at SEAT (I have the all in one plan).

 

Press the top section of the left hand circular control with 'Max' on it, it starts the screen blower on high and the heated screen. Simples!

 

Not exactly.

It's supposed to work automatically and the automatic element is when it detects high levels of moisture.

I have never seen mine turn on automatically!

Maybe it was changed to include a button like on mine at some point which can probably be added with coding

 

Duplicated post, sorry

 

I haven't checked if I have this myself yet either! Not noticed the thin wires. Had this in my old focus and was brilliant. Essential in a diesel that take a long time to warm up. A feature I forgot to check on but would be chuffed if I did have it..... And.... No it doesn't have it.

Also some strange looks when passers by see me with my face pressed against an icy windscreen trying to look for the tiny wires!

 

Thanks for the information all. I think I will contact SEAT Uk and see if they have any build info and also go back to dealer again.

 

We’ll blow me down! 😂. I may have seen this screen when I bought the car and did lots of exploring but I don’t suppose I knew it meant electrically heated. I didn’t stick my eyeball on the screen but from a foot away couldn’t see filaments.

Saw this other screen as well which I also don’t recall.

 

We’ll blow me down! 😂. I may have seen this screen when I bought the car and did lots of exploring but I don’t suppose I knew it meant electrically heated. I didn’t stick my eyeball on the screen but from a foot away couldn’t see filaments.
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Saw this other screen as well which I also don’t recall.
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Great that the info has helped and I appreciate those who have tried to help me.
I have reached out to SEAT UK and will see what they say. Will report back.

 

I have a 2022 Ateca exp lux, I turn the heated screen on pressing “setup” knob on the dash in front of gear lever, then heated screen button on screen, surprisingly effective for something you can’t see (I only found out in winter 2024) my cars garaged so didn’t get the opportunity too much to see), I also never thought it worked. Temp settings tab top right on set up screen too

 

I thought the Ateca only had a heated screen from 2020 and it is the ClimaCoat type with no wires?

 

I think it was available earlier with wires - but this methods seems to have had a short run before the coating system came in.

here is the same car as mine but diesel -

SEAT Ateca details | carwow.co.uk

quotes.carwow.co.uk

and it lists a heated windscreen.

 

My wIfe's is a 19 plate and her's has the Ford-type wired heated front screen.