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I thought it was my imagination but recently after driving around town the floorboard area gets a little too warm for comfort. This happens in both driver and passenger side. I changed the a/c setting to floor and that calmed it down. But I know there's something fishy there. Anyone had this happened to them? Thoughts?
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I've noticed that but after driving my other Jeeps I'm kinda use to it. Not saying it's right but 20 plus years of it. So I just live with it for now. I really started to notice it after I pulled out back seats and built platform with fridge freezer it feels like the heater is blowing right on my feet. Mainly when I'm on just a drive not focused on getting to or from work. :like:
 

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stick or auto?
Mine doesn't get hot - my feet would tell me as I have issues with them.
 
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I drive a TJ with the carpet removed and line-X'd

You ain't seen hot yet....


Just chalk it up to being a Jeep! :rock:
 
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lmao, any of you guys remember member RED? he had several threads about this issue. I have never noticed it, but my top is down whenever its above 50 degrees and not raining.
 

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OP, yes the floor boards get hot. There is the catalytic converter in that area. There should be heat shields to help. If you think that it gets too hot, go take it to your dealer and have them check it out.
 

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I've never noticed the floor hot. My wife rides in the truck a whole lot, she's never mentioned it. We don't have the panels out very often because it's either really cold or really hot and humid here, so it's normally top and doors on (until lately, that is)
So I'd say no, my JT floors don't get hot. I drove it for almost 4 hours steady about a month ago - never noticed it.
 

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lmao, any of you guys remember member RED? he had several threads about this issue. I have never noticed it, but my top is down whenever its above 50 degrees and not raining.
I was going to post the same thing. I wonder what happened to that guy.
 

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I will say this. I never have noticed what I would call sufficient heat from the floorboard area until the other day. I have the OEM floor mats and I had pulled the rubber mats out and with them the rubber plug thereby leaving the hole in the floor without any type of mat or plug in that hole and I can say I definitely felt additional heat that I had not noticed before. So yeah, the exhaust does for sure get hot under the floorboards but for me it wasn’t problematic and if it was I would just wrap the exhaust system in some nice thermal tap and be done with it. But yeah, I can see where some of the complaints could be legit to some extent.
 

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A person can devise shields above pipes and CATs to help shield the heat. Doesn't take much more than a piece of steel between pipe and floor. There's also header wrap that could be tried around the pipes. You want to keep the heat in the pipes at the front end anyway.

Just be aware that those pipes, especaily the cats, can get hot enough to start FIRES. I'm not kidding. More than one Iowa farmer has learned that in the past - dry fields like we have here now, POOF - you fry your car or truck and some acres of field/crop.
 

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I’ve measured my passenger floorboards upwards of 140 degrees. So hot that items in my wife’s purse are warm. My 17 jku doesn’t have this problem.
 

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I’ve measured my passenger floorboards upwards of 140 degrees. So hot that items in my wife’s purse are warm. My 17 jku doesn’t have this problem.
Wow - time to take my remote thermometer with me next trip and point it at the floor!

That's plenty hot. Maybe it's no wonder our Chinese take-out is still hot when we get it home - and I'm only half-joking.
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