audiojerry
New Member
- Joined
- Jun 26, 2024
- Messages
- 17
- Location
- Brookfield, WI, and Arizona
- Cars
- Lucid Air Touring
- DE Number
- 0
I'm loving the driving experience but very frustrated with many quirks and defects.
I am beginning only my 3rd week with my new Touring. Everytime I enter it and drive, I feel like I'm experiencing something special. It is a joy to drive, but my wife and I have encountered some very frustrating issues that leave me with mixed emotions.
I've experienced loose fitting, rattling and sqeaking interior and exterior parts, and odd, inconsistent, and non working operational functions that I surmise are software related. The steering wheel squeaked, which I am happy to report was fixed with at-home visit by the service technician from Goose Island. He also helped set up the garage door opener with Homelink. The technician was very helpful and knowledgeable, but he was unable to correct other software related issues.
For example, the car seems to confuse the profile identify of the driver when the current driver differs from the previous driver, but the behavior is inconsistent. Sometimes the profile of the current driver displays correctly, but after pressing the brake it either does not set the seat, mirrors, and steering wheel at all or it sets them to the position of the previous driver. The key fob does not always unlock the doors when approaching. The passenger door doesn't unlock when the car is in Park and must be opened by the driver by pulling the inside door handle. Re-booting the computer by holding down the "Lucid" icon does not correct it. There are more examples of software issues.
Referring to Homelink, it's quirky in its functionality and inferior to mirror integrated units found in far less expensive cars. It seems like Lucid's engineers are very software oriented and have put too much functionality into software with the intent of providing greater upgrade-ability, but it seems like this approach allows for the introduction of more bugs and should require better programming standards and tighter testing QC before releasing upgrades.
After reading about the annoying and frustrating behaviors reported by other owners and experiencing some of them myself, I believe Lucid is not ready for prime time
I am beginning only my 3rd week with my new Touring. Everytime I enter it and drive, I feel like I'm experiencing something special. It is a joy to drive, but my wife and I have encountered some very frustrating issues that leave me with mixed emotions.
I've experienced loose fitting, rattling and sqeaking interior and exterior parts, and odd, inconsistent, and non working operational functions that I surmise are software related. The steering wheel squeaked, which I am happy to report was fixed with at-home visit by the service technician from Goose Island. He also helped set up the garage door opener with Homelink. The technician was very helpful and knowledgeable, but he was unable to correct other software related issues.
For example, the car seems to confuse the profile identify of the driver when the current driver differs from the previous driver, but the behavior is inconsistent. Sometimes the profile of the current driver displays correctly, but after pressing the brake it either does not set the seat, mirrors, and steering wheel at all or it sets them to the position of the previous driver. The key fob does not always unlock the doors when approaching. The passenger door doesn't unlock when the car is in Park and must be opened by the driver by pulling the inside door handle. Re-booting the computer by holding down the "Lucid" icon does not correct it. There are more examples of software issues.
Referring to Homelink, it's quirky in its functionality and inferior to mirror integrated units found in far less expensive cars. It seems like Lucid's engineers are very software oriented and have put too much functionality into software with the intent of providing greater upgrade-ability, but it seems like this approach allows for the introduction of more bugs and should require better programming standards and tighter testing QC before releasing upgrades.
After reading about the annoying and frustrating behaviors reported by other owners and experiencing some of them myself, I believe Lucid is not ready for prime time