I want to remind folk to shut off the shock and tilt alarm before loading / transporting. Also, be careful "checking on location" with the mobile app. I had my car trucked several hundred miles to replace a faulty module (this was over 2 years ago). I used the mobile phone app to "track" my car's progress down to VA, and while it was at the repair shop, and then all the way back home. As the car pulled onto my street I was watching on the app...and looked up at my car on the flatbed truck: the lights were on, and pointed directly into the truck driver's neck / rear view mirror. I realized that every time I "woke" the car, down and back and while in the shop, I had been "flashing".
Had I been the truck driver(s), I"d be pretty pissed ... had I been in the shop, I'd wonder WTF was going on (it was not a Lucid Service shop but an independent exotic shop authorized by Lucid).
My car has been "in the shop" for about half a year now, and I've been "flashing" to see where it is. Since the car is "bricked" and off-line the app is showing it at the authorized repair shop on the Main Line. After a few months of no word I rented a car and drove over there to see it. It wasn't there. It had become bricked during repairs ( a deer ran into it and tore the front bumper cover ) so it was trucked over to the KoP Service Center to get sorted. So I drove over to see it there, but was turned away. Was told no work would be done until after the holidays. That makes sense, as it's probably waiting for some software engineer in CA to come back from vacation, and then they have the Gravity launch so likely all the engineers in CA are swamped with work. So the car is, allegedly, sitting in the far dark depths of the service center, with all the other bricked Lucids, waiting it's turn. I check my mobile app to see if it's "alive" several times a week. I can imagine I am not the only one who does this. There are about 100 Lucids at the service center last time I was there. It must be a real light show to work at a Lucid Service center.
I expected the repairs to take a couple of months (not just getting parts, but getting approval from Liberty Mutual) but did not rent a car because I'm retired. I
did not expect it to take half a year and counting. Problem is I am so spoiled by Lucid that I refuse to drive the wife's Masda. I let her drive when we go somewhere. I'm enjoying seeing the sights as a passenger, but, I really really miss my car. I miss seeing it -- I used to go and sit in the garage and just look at it.
I used to go out in the middle of the night an listen to music from the back seat. I miss having a private and tweaked listening room.
...so much so that I'm thinking...spend time every day...thinking how to tell the wife, convince the wife, to ditch the Mazda and let me buy an additional Air.
Does Lucid know I'm thinking this way? Is this a conspiracy to increase Lucid sales ?
I think it is. I think that the moment I sneak another Lucid into my garage I'll get a call saying my car is done and ready for pick-up. Damm, that's clever. Lucid must be reading every post I make here.