Ambroos
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I picked up my shiny new cherry red RWD sedan Saturday morning (built mid-January). The car drives absolutely brilliantly, and the first 8 hours of ownership were completely problem-free, but after that things started getting a little weird.
- Saturday evening, around 8pm: the alarm issue. I had parked somewhere meeting a friend, and within 30 seconds of locking the car the alarm went off. Every single time. Disabling interior monitoring stops it from happening, but it's a workaround.
- Saturday evening, try to trickle charge at home over 120v, ground fault. Possibly the plugs in my building, maybe the charger, maybe the car.
- Sunday afternoon, on a drive with a friend, after most of the day playing the built in Apple Music, we used Android Auto music for a bit. Later, around 6pm, Apple Music disappeared from the list of available sources.
- Sunday, around 8:30 pm, on my drive home from the grocery store, the PCM no longer detects that it's dark out. My map and Android Auto stay in light mode as a result. Turning the headlights on/off manually doesn't help. Headlights and ambient lighting all work as expected.
- Sunday, 9pm, I get home. I lock the car, and within 2 seconds the alarm starts going off. Unlocking makes it stop after a second or two. Nothing works to make it stop doing this, interior monitoring / rebooting PCM / driving a bit / switching key / checking all doors and (f/t)runk / ... After a while at least I discovered that if I just walk away with interior monitoring disabled, it'll stop blaring after 15 seconds.
- Monday, 10am, I get to work, everything seems fine again. Disable interior monitoring, lock car, no alarm! I tried trickle charging at work (L2 all taken), ground fault. Weird.
- Monday, 2pm, a charger freed up so I move my car. Forgot to disable interior monitoring.
- Monday, 3pm, I get a notification on my phone my alarm went off. Walked over to disable interior monitoring.
- Monday, 7pm, leave work. Car greets me with a 15 second PCM boot time, and then a setup guide. It doesn't allow me to switch to my user, only guest. Privacy mode is enabled and can't be disabled. I can't log in / use online data. App control is no longer possible. Multiple factory resets and reboots make no difference. FM radio only gives me white noise, and the station list shows "Loading data..." forever.
My sales advisor already made a service appointment for me this morning. He also confirmed after I asked that my car needs the alarm recall done.
I think I'll just drive by tomorrow to have them at least do a 12V / terminal 30 reset in the hopes that that helps with the PCM login/data issue, which is the most annoying one so far, and to test if I can trickle charge on their outlets.
It's a little disheartening. The car is insanely fun to drive, but all these software issues are an absolute embarrassment. I'm a little extra salty now that I missed out on the new PCM update by just over a month.
- Saturday evening, around 8pm: the alarm issue. I had parked somewhere meeting a friend, and within 30 seconds of locking the car the alarm went off. Every single time. Disabling interior monitoring stops it from happening, but it's a workaround.
- Saturday evening, try to trickle charge at home over 120v, ground fault. Possibly the plugs in my building, maybe the charger, maybe the car.
- Sunday afternoon, on a drive with a friend, after most of the day playing the built in Apple Music, we used Android Auto music for a bit. Later, around 6pm, Apple Music disappeared from the list of available sources.
- Sunday, around 8:30 pm, on my drive home from the grocery store, the PCM no longer detects that it's dark out. My map and Android Auto stay in light mode as a result. Turning the headlights on/off manually doesn't help. Headlights and ambient lighting all work as expected.
- Sunday, 9pm, I get home. I lock the car, and within 2 seconds the alarm starts going off. Unlocking makes it stop after a second or two. Nothing works to make it stop doing this, interior monitoring / rebooting PCM / driving a bit / switching key / checking all doors and (f/t)runk / ... After a while at least I discovered that if I just walk away with interior monitoring disabled, it'll stop blaring after 15 seconds.
- Monday, 10am, I get to work, everything seems fine again. Disable interior monitoring, lock car, no alarm! I tried trickle charging at work (L2 all taken), ground fault. Weird.
- Monday, 2pm, a charger freed up so I move my car. Forgot to disable interior monitoring.
- Monday, 3pm, I get a notification on my phone my alarm went off. Walked over to disable interior monitoring.
- Monday, 7pm, leave work. Car greets me with a 15 second PCM boot time, and then a setup guide. It doesn't allow me to switch to my user, only guest. Privacy mode is enabled and can't be disabled. I can't log in / use online data. App control is no longer possible. Multiple factory resets and reboots make no difference. FM radio only gives me white noise, and the station list shows "Loading data..." forever.
My sales advisor already made a service appointment for me this morning. He also confirmed after I asked that my car needs the alarm recall done.
I think I'll just drive by tomorrow to have them at least do a 12V / terminal 30 reset in the hopes that that helps with the PCM login/data issue, which is the most annoying one so far, and to test if I can trickle charge on their outlets.
It's a little disheartening. The car is insanely fun to drive, but all these software issues are an absolute embarrassment. I'm a little extra salty now that I missed out on the new PCM update by just over a month.
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