Gravity Bugs / Issues

[johnse]

Wonder how many folks here can reveal their age and say they have coded in Fortran. I did so in school

I wrote Fortran on IBM Hollerith cards! Sequence numbers are your friend when you drop a deck

Also wrote assembly using coding forms that we then sent to be keypunched. Yes, the company had a pool of keypunch operators.

 

[GoDestruction]

I wrote Fortran on IBM Hollerith cards! Sequence numbers are your friend when you drop a deck

Also wrote assembly using coding forms that we then sent to be keypunched. Yes, the company had a pool of keypunch operators.

Dang! You beat me… I did Fortran and Assembly coding too but never got to deal punchcards!! Am sure you will have good stories to share around a beer

 

[BiruBoy11]

I’m only posting this because this is an issue I haven’t seen on this thread, and it’s a pretty big one.

I took delivery of a GDE (#19) a couple weeks ago and immediately had many of the same ‘minor’ issues many others have had with saving profiles, fobs intermittently working, etc. These things, while unacceptable for a premium vehicle, didn’t really bother me because the car is such a joy to drive.

About a week ago, I felt a slight bump/disengagement in the drivetrain after moving from a stop light. Electronic Stability Control (ESC) orange warning popped up and driving speed was immediately limited to 50 mph. ESC apparently impacts a host of other things so ‘brake hold unavailable’ and ‘Dreamdrive unavailable’ and some other orange warnings also popped up.

I called customer care and did a level 2 reset but that did not fix the issue. The car is now in the local service center and the shop foreman basically told me it would likely ‘take some time’ to be fixed due to parts shortages.

The car still has temp tags on it and I’ve put more miles on the loaner (Air Pure, great car by the way, 5 miles/kWh) than I have on my GDE.

Like everyone else who has had issues, I am disappointed in Lucid because I expected them to have learned something from problems with the Air, which I had leased from 2023-2025.

But, despite all these issues, I am actually more hopeful than angry because the driving dynamics on my GDE are still magnitudes better than anything else, even with the ESC failure. Also helps that the loaner is no slouch. Being an early adopter is always an adventure which I guess is the whole motivation for being an early adopter.

I hope Lucid can navigate the tough times and I can’t wait to get the car back.

 

[hmp10]

I hope Lucid can navigate the tough times and I can’t wait to get the car back.

Our GDE is being picked up today to go to a Service Center to have the HUD, the TCU, and probably the front console replaced as well as second-row seat noises addressed. I have to say I'll be relieved to have it beyond our reach for a while, as the past seven weeks have been an emotionally-draining Jekyll/Hyde of a roller coaster ride.

The car is so roomy and comfortable and so damned exhilarating to drive -- and this is coming from someone who has an Air Dream Performance in the garage -- that we just can't keep ourselves out of it. Yet, from the moment we try to put it into gear until we get out of it again, it hammers us with one software or hardware glitch after another, all the while feeling like we're cocooned in a rocket ship on rails.

It's just plain disturbing, and we need a rest.

 

[prodolf]

Wonder how many folks here can reveal their age and say they have coded in Fortran. I did so in school

Pascal. I just missed the punch card compiling mess at my school.

I’m only posting this because this is an issue I haven’t seen on this thread, and it’s a pretty big one.

I took delivery of a GDE (#19) a couple weeks ago and immediately had many of the same ‘minor’ issues many others have had with saving profiles, fobs intermittently working, etc. These things, while unacceptable for a premium vehicle, didn’t really bother me because the car is such a joy to drive.

About a week ago, I felt a slight bump/disengagement in the drivetrain after moving from a stop light. Electronic Stability Control (ESC) orange warning popped up and driving speed was immediately limited to 50 mph. ESC apparently impacts a host of other things so ‘brake hold unavailable’ and ‘Dreamdrive unavailable’ and some other orange warnings also popped up.

I called customer care and did a level 2 reset but that did not fix the issue. The car is now in the local service center and the shop foreman basically told me it would likely ‘take some time’ to be fixed due to parts shortages.

The car still has temp tags on it and I’ve put more miles on the loaner (Air Pure, great car by the way, 5 miles/kWh) than I have on my GDE.

Like everyone else who has had issues, I am disappointed in Lucid because I expected them to have learned something from problems with the Air, which I had leased from 2023-2025.

But, despite all these issues, I am actually more hopeful than angry because the driving dynamics on my GDE are still magnitudes better than anything else, even with the ESC failure. Also helps that the loaner is no slouch. Being an early adopter is always an adventure which I guess is the whole motivation for being an early adopter.

I hope Lucid can navigate the tough times and I can’t wait to get the car back.

Somewhat similar experience for me today. I have almost 3,000 miles on my GDE but this was a first. I was parked on a slight downhill slope this morning. When I put the car in reverse and took my foot off the brake it began to roll forward. Usually it holds until the reverse gear engages. All the way in today I couldn't one-foot drive, which I love. I tested it on a couple of stops and the regen is high but it never comes to a complete stop....almost and then slowly creeps. This is outright dangerous if you're used to the car stopping and holding without the need to brake, especially when stopped at a busy intersection. Anyone else experienced this behavior?

 

[jered]

Wonder how many folks here can reveal their age and say they have coded in Fortran. I did so in school

LOL; my first summer job (in high school) was converting a statistical analysis program from FORTRAN to... Visual Basic.

 

[Batteryman]

It might be a question of sementic,

> lock/unlock issues exists on both the Air and the Gravity.
> there are multiple paths to lock/unlock) vis-a-vis, FOB, Key Card, Phone (Blutooth, celluar), etc.
> but all these unlock signals go through the computer to assert the locking/unlocking function
> there are multiple theories RE: antenna, Bluetooth interference, WiFI interference, etc. etc.

To me, this sounds like a computer/SW problem rather than a "device" (FOB/Keycard) or Apps (Bluetooth/Celluar). Hence, replacingthe FAB/Key Cards/reinstalling the Apps won't really fix the problem.

Thoughts?

What!!!…..they still haven’t figured this out? Thought Gravity key was the game changer. Someone at Lucid should explain.

 

[Richinwalla]

I have a Gravity Grand Touring on order. But I live more than 200 miles from the closest service center. Am I crazy to take delivery considering all the issues and how far I am from a service center?

 

[Batteryman]

The big issue with our TCU is that it is not transmitting GPS information, so neither our navigation system, nor satellite maps, nor any geofencing-related functions are working -- including ADAS features that need to know the car is on an authorized route.

This, as well as bright white ghost reflections from a distorted HUD screen and noises from the second-row seat, still has me scratching my head how this car got through post-production inspection and the brief test track drive . . . or if Lucid even bothered with any of that.

I would view "only" having key fob issues as a walk in the park.

I find the facts that Lucid is still continuing to deliver Gravities and that posters are now reporting having to wait until October to get Service Center slots to be a bit scary.

I don’t think Lucid bothered…they are struggling and they just drugged a deeper hole…..self inflicted harm…as if the present EV political climate isn’t enough.