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Hello all,
After discussing delivery delays and rumbles from supposed Lucid staff about issues with the 2nd row in the Gravity, etc on Reddit, I realized my Gravity (Dream we've had since late September and have about 5,000 miles on so far) may be part of the reason and wanted to see if anyone else here has had the same experience.
In mid January we had just been visited by mobile service who had come out to investigate a passenger door handle issue (handle needs to be replaced) and to check on our complaint about the high pitched whir sound in the driver's seat with the headlights on (Shop foreman is currently calling that "normal for the vehicle"). After he left, we were getting into the third row of the Gravity to clean the inside of the back window while it was still in the garage in preparation for a drive I had to make that evening. My partner pressed the little button on the 2nd row seatback like normal, the seat tilted and slid forward, nothing seemed unusual. We were talking about something while he was working, and I commented that whatever he was doing back there did not smell great. Within about a minute the car was filled with an acrid burning or melting plastic type smell and we realized something was amiss. There was no unusual noise from anywhere, the car itself was not on/ready at that point, and the smell very clearly was coming from inside the car. He got out of the third row, and it was about then we noticed smoke wisping up from under the second row. We immediately slid the seat back a little bit because my first thought was "stalled motor overheating" but we also rapidly got the car out of the garage juuuuuust in case the smoke coming up from under the seat was an omen of worse things to come. There was a light fog of smoke in the cabin at that point but it didn't seem to be coming more rapidly at least. Visions of a costly bonfire in my driveway briefly flashed through my head
. Fortunately, the smoke diminished and stopped shortly after moving the seat back and pulling the car out of the garage, but we reported it via text to the mobile service tech who had left less than an hour before. We did catch a brief video of the smoke as it was dying down, and we sent that to him too. He called back a few minutes later and said that he had been going to turn around and come back to investigate that right away, but said he had reported it to "corporate", and they said they were going to want to get the vehicle to the service hub ASAP so would need to send a transport vehicle anyway. Service advisor reached out promptly offering to set things up, and I had been swamped at work so took a few days to respond. When I reached back out, she responded with this:
I have been absolutely swamped at work so had essentially thought nothing of all this until I started seeing the posts on reddits about orders not being delivered for the last few weeks, vague reasons on the delays, rumors about a second row issue, etc. I'm sure ours wasn't the "reason" per se, but I wonder if it was one of the nails in the coffin for that second row motor system at least. Anyone else have a similar issue with possible overheating/smoke?
After discussing delivery delays and rumbles from supposed Lucid staff about issues with the 2nd row in the Gravity, etc on Reddit, I realized my Gravity (Dream we've had since late September and have about 5,000 miles on so far) may be part of the reason and wanted to see if anyone else here has had the same experience.
In mid January we had just been visited by mobile service who had come out to investigate a passenger door handle issue (handle needs to be replaced) and to check on our complaint about the high pitched whir sound in the driver's seat with the headlights on (Shop foreman is currently calling that "normal for the vehicle"). After he left, we were getting into the third row of the Gravity to clean the inside of the back window while it was still in the garage in preparation for a drive I had to make that evening. My partner pressed the little button on the 2nd row seatback like normal, the seat tilted and slid forward, nothing seemed unusual. We were talking about something while he was working, and I commented that whatever he was doing back there did not smell great. Within about a minute the car was filled with an acrid burning or melting plastic type smell and we realized something was amiss. There was no unusual noise from anywhere, the car itself was not on/ready at that point, and the smell very clearly was coming from inside the car. He got out of the third row, and it was about then we noticed smoke wisping up from under the second row. We immediately slid the seat back a little bit because my first thought was "stalled motor overheating" but we also rapidly got the car out of the garage juuuuuust in case the smoke coming up from under the seat was an omen of worse things to come. There was a light fog of smoke in the cabin at that point but it didn't seem to be coming more rapidly at least. Visions of a costly bonfire in my driveway briefly flashed through my head
. Fortunately, the smoke diminished and stopped shortly after moving the seat back and pulling the car out of the garage, but we reported it via text to the mobile service tech who had left less than an hour before. We did catch a brief video of the smoke as it was dying down, and we sent that to him too. He called back a few minutes later and said that he had been going to turn around and come back to investigate that right away, but said he had reported it to "corporate", and they said they were going to want to get the vehicle to the service hub ASAP so would need to send a transport vehicle anyway. Service advisor reached out promptly offering to set things up, and I had been swamped at work so took a few days to respond. When I reached back out, she responded with this:And of course that's what I agreed to do. We're about 6 weeks out from that incident now and haven't heard anything since, but I have had good luck with our service hub thus far so I assume they'll reach out when they have more information. Since that happened the button on that seat no longer functions for the easy access feature. The button itself is fine and will do the lower cushion release, but it won't tilt or move the seat forward. The seat controls themselves work fine and because the button won't tilt/slide the seat anymore we have not been able to recreate the issue or had any concerning issues. I will say right now I don't move that seat unless I have to, but even right after it had been smoking I couldn't clearly identify what had gotten hot enough to smoke/melt and there didn't seem to be any immediate risk to the seat igniting.
I have been absolutely swamped at work so had essentially thought nothing of all this until I started seeing the posts on reddits about orders not being delivered for the last few weeks, vague reasons on the delays, rumors about a second row issue, etc. I'm sure ours wasn't the "reason" per se, but I wonder if it was one of the nails in the coffin for that second row motor system at least. Anyone else have a similar issue with possible overheating/smoke?
