Gravity Delivery Discussion

[GoDestruction]

Yes. They all look silver on pilot screen for now. Hopefully they’re focused on other bug fixes right now.

Glad yours is going strong. Shows they’re improving and they probably do have a fix for fob, etc.

At least my Gravity display color will match my LT Gravity ... tik tok...

 

[GoDestruction]

My issue is IF Lucid has figured out the fob issue in particular, I think it’s reasonable to expect them to address it with current owners proactively. They know I have the issue but haven’t said anything about fixing it. In fact, when mobile tech was here for window, he basically didn’t acknowledge to fob issue. Super nice guy, but seemed exasperated to hear about it again and didn’t offer an explanation or insight.

Again, not meant to whine, but feeling a bit hung out to dry. But, then I go drive the car and go to my happy place! And I expect when it goes to SC in two weeks, they’ll fix it.

It is possible that there are multiple bugs confounding the key fob issue. The console replacement may be a partial fix that improves the situation, and even if that were "the" fix they have to let it be in the field for some time before they know it has been resolved.

 

[9point81]

I was able to finally take delivery last week of my GGT. I placed an order on 4 July and changed a few things to get matched to a car. I ready thousands of forum posts, watched pretty much every gravity video on YouTube, and did as much research as possible. I won’t lie, I was worried about what I would be getting. But after 7 Teslas (I think) and 2 Rivians, I figured I was ready for bleeding edge tech. What was delivered to me was not what I expected…

My car arrived at the service center on 13 Aug. It took them until the 27th before they would let me pick it up. Was a frustrated? Yep. Apparently the hold on deliveries impacted me, but the worse part was I was never told what they did during the hold. But ah well. I finally got the car. I was blown away at the quality of the car. I fully expected to have issues with the key fob, cards, etc. I was prepared to turn off the proximity locking and everything. But it has worked, flawlessly. I had an issue with the GPS being strange, but it fixed itself. It reminded me of a Tesla having to drive some miles before the “Autopilot” functionally was calibrated. Since then, the GPS has worked great. The one part that hasn’t worked yet is the Homelink. It still shows the QR code, even though the delivery advisor swears the hardware module was installed (I’m not sure if that’s the case though). The DreamDrive Pro has far exceeded what I expected. It’s not on the level of Tesla, but it is better than Rivian. The fact that it works on many surface streets was a very pleasant surprise to me. The car is quiet, the sound system is great, and thus far I am surprised from a tech level. Has it been perfect? Nope. I got in once and got the no rear steering error. But it cleared itself up essentially right away. I do have the strange issue of the car showing 3.2.2 and the app saying the car is on 3.2.1. Ah well, minor thing.

I do have a question? Does everyone on the pilot screen show a silver Gravity? I thought that would match the configuration of your actual vehicle. I have black with the mid sized wheels, but the display Gravity is silver.

Regardless, the car is nice. I would not hesitate to tell anyone to be wary of or ding one. Sure, they probably did have issues initially. I have flown aircraft that are new that have had the same problems. Even old planes with new tech. But eventually they are figured out. I believe (fingers crossed) that Lucid is starting to figure out the issues and are hitting their stride. I think we will really know once software updates start adding features versus fixing existing issues. CarPlay, streaming, and phone as key are my main desires. I can say, thus far, I feel this has been a great purchase. YMMV.

Yep, silver. Agree with you on your assessment. One month and over 3k miles in and it still, bugs and all, has been an absolutely amazing experience. Has it been perfect, no. Room for improvement, yes. But the VAST majority of the time, this vehicle is just phenomenal. Can’t wait to see it improved, both for bugs and for the additional features yet to come!

 

[Jackles]

Someone correct me if I’m wrong so I can make a better decision.

The main reason I will lease my GDE is, if god forbid, Lucid goes under then I wouldn’t be stuck with a car with no support and lose 90% of its value like Fisker Oceans did.

I do plan to buyout the lease at the end if there’s no issues with the company.

Thoughts?

 

[johnse]

A while back @indigo6 posted:

According to the service advisor they have a new revision of key fob.

And we were told back in July, I think that there would be an update on September.

Lucid has said that there will be a software update in early September that they expect to fix the key issues.

This looks to me like they identified the problem and needed to work with Marquardt to get a fix ready (firmware, hardware, or both). Particularly if it was hardware, that would introduce a manufacturing delay that could be somewhat predictable...hence making the statement of a time frame to fix the issue.

It could also explain the paucity of fobs if they were trying to minimize the amount of rework as they continued to deliver the V1 fobs.

 

[Ron_Burgundy]

Someone correct me if I’m wrong so I can make a better decision.

The main reason I will lease my GDE is, if god forbid, Lucid goes under then I wouldn’t be stuck with a car with no support and lose 90% of its value like Fisker Oceans did.

I do plan to buyout the lease at the end if there’s no issues with the company.

Thoughts?

You’re correct. BofA has to take the car back at end of term. The caveat is you’re paying some sort of premium for that hedge. Depends on your calculations and personal opportunity cost.

 

[Latrell_Sprewell]

GGT with standard Dreamdrive does not have access to the front camera? I see it on the vehicle but I cant access it
Am I doing something wrong and will it be available as a software upgrade?

 

[HC_79]

Someone correct me if I’m wrong so I can make a better decision.

The main reason I will lease my GDE is, if god forbid, Lucid goes under then I wouldn’t be stuck with a car with no support and lose 90% of its value like Fisker Oceans did.

I do plan to buyout the lease at the end if there’s no issues with the company.

Thoughts?

I’d buy the newer model when the lease is up. The lease buyout may not be favorable based on how aggressive the depreciation has been with EV’s in general.

 

[Bunnylebowski]

GGT with standard Dreamdrive does not have access to the front camera? I see it on the vehicle but I cant access it
Am I doing something wrong and will it be available as a software upgrade?

It’s actually unclear from the Lucid website whether you get front camera access or not with standard Dream Drive. Does it give you park distance sensors in terms of inches to object in the front? It’s supposed to do that, so I’m not sure how it would display that information without showing a front camera?

 

[Ron_Burgundy]

It’s actually unclear from the Lucid website whether you get front camera access or not with standard Dream Drive. Does it give you park distance sensors in terms of inches to object in the front? It’s supposed to do that, so I’m not sure how it would display that information without showing a front camera?

You can access it at low speeds/when parking by pressing the parking button on pilot screen - if you CAN access it with standard DD. I find mind (DDP) frequently does not turn on automatically at low speeds when parking. That’s disappointing as it’s one thing our R1S does well.

 

[037]

GGT with standard Dreamdrive does not have access to the front camera? I see it on the vehicle but I cant access it
Am I doing something wrong and will it be available as a software upgrade?

From reading the manual, front camera availability is not present on DD.

 

[Bunnylebowski]

Glad I got DDPro, that front camera is super useful. On the Air it does turn on when it senses you slowing down to park or an object so I’d imagine the Gravity will do that soon.