After over a year of ownership, I still don't understand the entry/approach software of this car

[Tym]

3. Those who live in the North East where it rains frequently and/or don't like looking like a dork standing next to their car waiting for the phone and/or fob to connect and unlock the car/ pulling the card out and waving it on the B pillar looking for a miracle as we get soaked!

I fumbled around this particular set of frustrating problems for weeks after the May 2024 delivery of our afflicted Air Pure. Ultimately, I left just the departure on should I forget to manually lock, or it just doesn't take and I don't notice because it is pouring rain. I have retreated to the battery-eating fobs exclusively and maintain a large inventory of CR2032s that are changed monthly. My wife's fob is rarely used and still drains the battery in a month's time. The fob just works better, assuming that the battery has enough juice left to execute the request as a month is sometimes too much time. Less than 36 hours after I took delivery the first fob battery died leading to the first use of the "card".

The access issues have been frustrating, for sure, but have been far exceeded by the insultingly poor performance of the sound system. I will just reset the system, yet again, and concede that is another rant for another day. Don't get me going about the navigation system that can't find chargers, and directs me to take random exits off the freeway then get right back on!

When I open the garage door to empty the trash and I see the Air parked there, my heart sinks. I once loved this car, now it is officially a love/hate relationship, mostly hate. I have endured numerous issues since the day I took delivery of my 2024 AirPure in May. I have yet to speak with anyone that can explain how the radio could play TWO STATIONS AT THE SAME TIME! My wife is afraid of the poltergeist that haunts this cursed vehicle and will only drive it when I am present and have convinced her that it will be OK.
I am seriously considering finding a place to park it, eating the remainder of the lease and find something more reliable and less frustrating. My bad, I shoulda taken the 18 month lease, not 36. I have taken delivery of 12 new vehicles since 1984 and this Air is, by far, the worst of them. The 1995 Chevy S10 had a voracious appetite for fuel pumps and blinker switches, but it never stranded me on a busy interstate off ramp necessitating the notorious winch of shame. Worse still, Lucid never could determine why the vehicle failed!
Meanwhile, the LUCID SURVEY email lurks in my inbox...

If the problem is that bad, turn off passive lock. Now the car is always unlocked. never have to wait again.

 

[RMSko]

2025 AT that I've only had a couple of weeks, but while I was prepared to deal with unlocking/locking problems, I haven't had any so far. Maybe once I had to stand by the driver's door for an extra four seconds before the system detected me, but otherwise it's been fine. Importantly, mine is the only profile that's set up and we've never switched drivers, so maybe it's a multiple-profile thing. If it goes to sh*t when I add my wife, her fob, her phone, etc, I'll let you all know.

This is also my situation. I got my Air about a month ago and I'm the only profile. So far I have not had any issues with either the fob or the mobile key (once I got the mobile key to link). Interestingly, I have it set to "while using" instead of "always on" and it seems to work fine. I see no difference between this setting and always on. The only annoying issue is the Lucid app keeps asking me if I want to switch to always on.