Gravity Bugs / Issues

[borski]

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.

That sucks. As you’re sick and tired of hearing me say, but it bears mentioning - we haven’t seen this issue either.

I’m very hopeful it is a one-off.

 

[borski]

None of this works. After closing last night - it’s now just stuck half open and unresponsive. Boo. On a road trip, so someone gets wind and now have to have front window open to avoid annoying sound. Once we park, it will get a nice bag over it to protect from rain. Could be worse, but bummer for a six figure car in first road trip…

Okay, then that’s definitely a different issue than the one the GT had.

 

[Bus Driver]

I guess I’m ok if they don’t achieve Tesla or GM volume. It’s not that kind of thing. Weird but seductive works for me more than popular even if it’s not the best financial strategy. As long as they can stay in business that’s good enough for me.

I’m not at all looking forward to the day that Lucid achieves Tesla or GM volume. Model Ys are now so ubiquitous they’ve become the 2020s version of Rodney Dangerfield’s “Can’t Get No Respect.”

It was when Tesla hit the mass market with the Model 3 and the Model Y that they lost their exclusivity and along many other things, their “white glove customer service”. It just wasn’t feasible to provide that level of service for millions more auto buyers.

I liken the mass market, down market direction of Tesla (and probably Lucid, if they hope to survive longterm), to the airline industry after deregulation in 1978 - these days air travel is not that expensive anymore, and is within reach of just about anybody with a pulse and a debit card. But these days, air travel also really kinda sucks.