3rd Row heating/floor vents???

[AJ70]

Got a new '22 Telluride EX last month and the kids said something about the drivers side third row floor vent was not blowing any air out. I went back there and sure enough, the passenger side is blowing like the wind and nothing from the drivers side. You can feel a little residual heat from there, and that's me running it in manual mode (no roof vents) just floor turned on and the fan on high.

I took it to the dealership today, and they told me that's normal because the vent goes through the pillar in the roof and the fan blower is on the passenger side so there isn't enough pressure to blow the air over there.

I can't imagine there wouldn't be a damper or something to help direct some of the air to the other vent. I have one kid yelling their feet are hot and the other saying they are cold.

Can someone with a new Telluride check your third row floor vents and let me know if indeed this is normal? Just seems really odd to me...

 

[Javi]

Got a new '22 Telluride EX last month and the kids said something about the drivers side third row floor vent was not blowing any air out. I went back there and sure enough, the passenger side is blowing like the wind and nothing from the drivers side. You can feel a little residual heat from there, and that's me running it in manual mode (no roof vents) just floor turned on and the fan on high.

I took it to the dealership today, and they told me that's normal because the vent goes through the pillar in the roof and the fan blower is on the passenger side so there isn't enough pressure to blow the air over there.

I can't imagine there wouldn't be a damper or something to help direct some of the air to the other vent. I have one kid yelling their feet are hot and the other saying they are cold.

Can someone with a new Telluride check your third row floor vents and let me know if indeed this is normal? Just seems really odd to me...

I am unable to check right now, try this: block the vent that works and check to see if the air blows out of the other vent, if it doesn't there is a blockage or something is disconnected.

 

[Jasman]

I am unable to check right now, try this: block the vent that works and check to see if the air blows out of the other vent, if it doesn't there is a blockage or something is disconnected.

Curiosity got the best of me. So I got up from my comfortable recliner, stepped out into my chilly garage, set my 2022 SX air flow to floor, and to rear floor, and at max. To my surprise the third rear-floor air only blows from the right side. I’m now back in my warm recliner pondering why that is so…

 

[Tellthemride]

Got a new '22 Telluride EX last month and the kids said something about the drivers side third row floor vent was not blowing any air out. I went back there and sure enough, the passenger side is blowing like the wind and nothing from the drivers side. You can feel a little residual heat from there, and that's me running it in manual mode (no roof vents) just floor turned on and the fan on high.

I took it to the dealership today, and they told me that's normal because the vent goes through the pillar in the roof and the fan blower is on the passenger side so there isn't enough pressure to blow the air over there.

I can't imagine there wouldn't be a damper or something to help direct some of the air to the other vent. I have one kid yelling their feet are hot and the other saying they are cold.

Can someone with a new Telluride check your third row floor vents and let me know if indeed this is normal? Just seems really odd to me...

Has been this way since the first model year.

3rd row floor vents

has anyone else noticed that when you have the third row floor vents turned on that only air comes out of the passenger side floor vent and nothing comes out of the driver side?

tellurideforum.org

Likely the designers intended for functional vents on both sides but the engineers decided one side was enough or all they could work with? The plastic side panels in the third row/trunk are slightly different too with the drivers side having an extra storage compartment by the backrest and also the 12V outlet and tire jack cubby. Any of those may be taking up space needed for the duct work?