Auto Heated Seats & Steering Wheel?

[mikecronis]

I understand the auto heated/cooled seats and auto heated steering wheel functions are dependent (apparently) on the interior cabin temperature based on reading other forum posts. I believe I have those set to "auto" correctly, but they never turn on by themselves. Ambient temperature in my garage is around 38 deg. F. and outside is about 10 deg. F. How do you convince Lucid to auto-turn-on these features?

I do like the seats have 2 zones (under and back) which is nice.

 

[momo3605]

Same. It doesn’t work properly. The only thing that gives me consolation is that it does “remember” your setting from the last drive. For me during the winter I tend to keep heated seats on indefinitely. So I don’t usually have to mess with it on my next drive since they will still be on.

 

[JGard18]

Yeah, it doesn't work at all. that's the one feature I miss from my iX, the auto seat and wheel heaters (and auto seat coolers). They worked flawlessly and I never needed to manually adjust them.

 

[sri]

I dont think it is auto at this point, it just remembers previous settings.
Some times the previous will be overwritten with a profile switch too, it like car is loosing its buffer

 

[Amster]

I dont think it is auto at this point, it just remembers previous settings.
Some times the previous will be overwritten with a profile switch too, it like car is loosing its buffer

My heat settings never change with a profile switch. I actually wish they did.

 

[mikecronis]

Interesting. There's an auto-temperature control but the seats and wheel are not associated with that like a basic car would. How can we ask for that in the next software upgrade? Say, ambient temperature in the cabin is 10 degrees below what is set?

 

[momo3605]

Interesting. There's an auto-temperature control but the seats and wheel are not associated with that like a basic car would. How can we ask for that in the next software upgrade? Say, ambient temperature in the cabin is 10 degrees below what is set?

There’s already a setting for auto-seat and steering wheel conditioning. It just doesn’t work. It’s a bug that Lucid has to fix.

 

[mikecronis]

I didn't see that selection in the 2024 Survey where you can assign 1-100 "Lucid Bucks". Are they aware of the bug?

 

[ME2U]

That is from my Polestar app and I think it really feed all I expect...

 

[mikecronis]

I love this community; very insightful! At least I know it wasn't an "operator error" that the seats were not activating as-expected but only manually.
I asked the onboard AI to turn them on and I just get ghosted as she has nothing to say and just leaves.
"Hey Lucid!" [beep]
"Can you turn on the heated seats?" ...
[long pause "thinking"]
[self-exits].
"Hey Lucid!" [beep]
"Can you turn on the heated steering wheel?" ...
[long pause "thinking"]
[self-exits].
"Hey Lucid!" [beep]
"Does this Lucid Air have automatic heated seats or steering wheel?"
[short pause "thinking"]
"YES! This car has automatic heated seats and steering wheel to keep you warm and comfy."
"Hey Lucid!" [beep]
"How do I turn on the automatic heated seats function?"
[long pause "thinking"]
"Consult your manual in the App on how to turn on heated seats automatically."

 

[mikecronis]

I can be patient, no worries. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't bonkers.
Honestly, Lucid is taking great strides and improvements every day. Really impressive for a new car company.

 

[MGRMLN]

My guess is this functionality will work when they enable each heated/cooled seat and heated steering wheel via the app. They said that will require a forthcoming vehicle software update that is coming soon.

 

[mikecronis]

Heads-up! It's been below zero here in Colorado the last few days and.. the heated seats actually turned on by themselves! Interior temperature was around 32 deg. F.
Inside my "carriage house" (ahem, garage) it was about 30 deg. F. It went to the 2nd level setting.

The heated steering wheel did not come on by itself however.

The heated seats self turned-off at around (by my feeling only, as I was not looking at the Lucid App which indicates the actual interior cabin temp) at about 55 - 60 deg. F. Not certain as I was driving but had the climate display up on the Pilot Panel to verify it was on by itself initially, glanced down after it felt warmer, and that they were turned off. I had my interior temperature set to the recommended 72.

I think there may indeed be a cabin-temperature threshold for these auto-heated seats? I previously had these off from my last drive.

As a side-note, I'm questioning if the steering wheel is actually leather or "Pure Lux" leatherette. It was the one supposedly leather surface that did not accept my high-end leather conditioner and sort repelled it a bit and did not deeply soak-in like all the other seats greedily did (which made them immediately more supple).

 

[newlucidguy]

That is from my Polestar app and I think it really feed all I expect...

Don't forget, polestar did not have seat / wheel heat on during pre-conditioning for a long time. And when they did the seats, they didn't do the wheel for a while. Not sure what the complexity was.

 

[mikecronis]

Almost bought a Polestar 2 BST 230 in Nebula Green but ran away for some reason last-minute.

I'm just happy the auto-heated-seats worked at all! I think many users have not had their auto-heated seats to work or come on, but they may not have met the frigid threshold.
Honestly, I'm overjoyed.

If you ask Lucid Assistant she gets fussy and tells me to go "read a book" which is snarky but I like it.

 

[xponents]

I dont think it is auto at this point, it just remembers previous settings.
Some times the previous will be overwritten with a profile switch too, it like car is loosing its buffer

Airs with silver roofs have memory loss, while solid ones don’t!

 

[mikecronis]

Silver-roofed Airs are more "Hoity-Toity" and "marked by an air of assumed importance" until they have an emotional meltdown/tantrum.
When mine quirked-out a tiny bit with the keyfob today, she may have announced, "You LOVE me!" like Alicia Silverstone from the film, "The Crush" (1993)