Easy entry gone awry - the car has a sense of humor

[nhcowboy28]

So I’ve been using the easy entry feature since I bought the car. Medium so it goes back halfway when I shut off the car. Well today, the car decided to make a meal out of me. Instead of moving the seat back on shutoff... it began moving the seat forward. But it also thought it would be funny to move the seat back all the way forward at the same time. Effectively crushing me against the steering wheel like a god damn Venus flytrap. Again, this was on shutdown. At no time have I ever seen ANY car with this feature move the seat forward.

Damn you Ginger.

 

[nhcowboy28]

Or should I call you Christine?

 

[MerlintheMad]

This only happens to me after my wife drives my car. She has yet to remember to select "1" (my setting) before shutting everything off. So when I get in, the "easy entry" is according to her setting (2). I push the ignition, and my very small wife's setting crunchs me up, raises me to the ceiling and brings my knees up under the dash. As soon as this is done, I push "1" and obtain relief.

 

[eflyguy]

I think it remembers each remote - expecting each driver to have "their own"..

 

[mikben89]

If you press any adjustment button on the seat while it is moving to a preset position, the seat will stop moving.

 

[MerlintheMad]

If you press any adjustment button on the seat while it is moving to a preset position, the seat will stop moving.

That qualifies as an "interesting discoveries" item. I hadn't thought of that. I figured that it ought to finish doing its thing; then I can do my thing.

 

[mikben89]

Call me silly. But I refuse to let this car own me. Lol

 

[TwiceStung]

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Or should I call you Christine?

Sorry, that name’s taken.

 

[ShannonC]

I think it remembers each remote - expecting each driver to have "their own"..

I don't think it's remote related. There are only 2 preset conditions and both are on the door panel.

 

[eflyguy]

I looked, doesn't seem like we have what I was thinking.

I had a car in the past where the remotes were also recognized as part of the programmed position, i.e. if you SET 1 having started the car with one remote, then SET 2 after starting with the other remote, it would then go to the associated positions when you unlocked the car. I *think* it was my Chrysler 300M.

With that said, it sounds like yours is going through the seat position initialization process - it's in the manual after where they show you how to program seat positions.

 

[mikben89]

The remotes don't affect the system. I have taken the wife's key fob a couple times. Left mine at home. Once I hit the door button with my settings, the car used those settings every time I got back into the car. When the wife drove it next, she had to hit her button. The car will use whatever last settings were selected, until the other setting is selected.