I did some youtube research yesterday on ventilated seats. Although I couldn't find anything directly related to Jeep, I am assuming that the general principle of ventilated seats are pretty standard across all manufacturers. What I found is not very good for me. It appears that the fans are embedded into the seat cushions themselves and blow the air directly onto a pad that cools the seats. Any work would require seat and fabric removal just to get to the fans. Although, I don't exactly know what my problem is, but I am thinking at the very less they would have to deconstruct my seats just to see. A/C does not control the ventilated seats. If anyone can direct me to more/other information on this please do so. Wonder if this is too labor intensive and if they would just replace the seats and be done with it.
That’s why I pretty much said they’d probably have to tear the seats down to see what’s going on. That may not be the case, but that has been my experience in the past with other vehicles. Also from experience, it shouldn’t be too labor intensive for an experienced mechanic. They deal with this stuff all the time. As long as the fans are working there probably isn't much else they can do.
You can google “ventilated seats weak” and get some pretty good reading material from owners of other brands. They specifically call these “ventilated” seats not “air conditioned”. Some brands do use a system that actually runs off of the a/c to cool the seats. Unfortunately I believe the WL just blows cabin air into the seats which has never been that great in my opinion.
Most ventilated seats are usually perforated. Unfortunately I only test drove a Summit Reserve which I believe had perforated seats. The Overland I ordered does not, so I'm not sure what good fans are for those without perforations. I've never experienced that situation before.