amcdonal86 Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Help! I'm having a problem with my memory seats ever since I got the car back from the scam dealership Pohanka Lexus of Chantilly. The mirrors memory works, but the seat's memory does not. The seat still does move when I adjust it using the power controls, but it will not remember the position! Could something have become disconnected (or sabotaged)? I'm going to try disconnecting the battery for a little bit and then seeing if it works again. Any ideas? It was working as early as 2 days ago!
amcdonal86 Posted January 12, 2009 Author Posted January 12, 2009 Well, I did a little fiddling with the electrical connectors under the seat, and suddenly it is working again. Disconnecting the battery alone did not do the trick. Oddly, now my HVAC is having some funky issues. For a couple times after I disconnected the battery, I would turn the car on and there would be grinding/movement noises somewhere in the dash, and then the front defogger light would flash amber repeatedly. After a couple more startups, it seems to work like normal. What on earth could cause this!? It scared me a little bit. Made me think I had bought a German car!
AzHotLS Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 The HVAC system is resetting itself after the battery was disconnected. It's going through all the settings and opening/closing dampers bringing it to an intial state. I believe it should only do it once though.
amcdonal86 Posted January 12, 2009 Author Posted January 12, 2009 The HVAC system is resetting itself after the battery was disconnected. It's going through all the settings and opening/closing dampers bringing it to an intial state. I believe it should only do it once though. I think I interrupted it by freaking out and removing the key from the ignition.
1990LS400 Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 amcdonal86, I think you are going to set a record for the most threads started by a new owner and I hope you are not getting stressed out by the minor issues you are having. Keep the new threads coming! I'm sure everyone will continue to help as much as possible. Things will settle down soon. Ommmmmmm.
amcdonal86 Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 amcdonal86, I think you are going to set a record for the most threads started by a new owner and I hope you are not getting stressed out by the minor issues you are having.Keep the new threads coming! I'm sure everyone will continue to help as much as possible. Things will settle down soon. Ommmmmmm. Haha, thanks. I'm just trying to get familiar with the car, and as you said, things should settle down soon. :) I'm just excited that my car already had the 90k service!
blake918 Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 The mirrors memory works, but the seat's memory does not. The seat still does move when I adjust it using the power controls, but it will not remember the position! Could something have become disconnected (or sabotaged)?I thought that the memory had died in my '95 one time, but it turned out that I had disconnected the battery for something a few weeks earlier (and forgot!). I reset my presets, and all was well. Have you tried resetting your memory (if by chance the dealer unplugged the battery for some reason), and testing it to see if everything goes back in to the right spot?
amcdonal86 Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 Sorry if I didn't make myself clear--the memory seat is working again.
amcdonal86 Posted January 19, 2009 Author Posted January 19, 2009 Well, last night it stopped working again. Then a few hours later I started it and it worked fine. What the heck is going on? Where do I begin to diagnose this?
amcdonal86 Posted January 23, 2009 Author Posted January 23, 2009 BAH!!!!!! How come nobody told me that it doesn't work when you push the brake pedal by design?!?!?!?! :chairshot::chairshot::chairshot: Works perfectly fine as it's supposed to!
BillyShaft Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 har! Good Find! I will have to add that to my growing list of oddball things to remember about Lexi. Just yesterday I noticed that the outside mirrors were not looking down when I put the RX in reverse and I was sure I had seen them do that before. Come to find out the mirror selector switch must be in either left or right and not the middle position for this feature to work. Grrr. I always put the mirror control in the middle "off" position just because it seems like a good idea when you aren't using something.
amcdonal86 Posted January 23, 2009 Author Posted January 23, 2009 har!Good Find! I will have to add that to my growing list of oddball things to remember about Lexi. Just yesterday I noticed that the outside mirrors were not looking down when I put the RX in reverse and I was sure I had seen them do that before. Come to find out the mirror selector switch must be in either left or right and not the middle position for this feature to work. Grrr. I always put the mirror control in the middle "off" position just because it seems like a good idea when you aren't using something. Does the '97 LS do that?!
jainla Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 Yeah the CC system takes a while to completely reset; something like 5 or 6 minutes; the light will flash the whole time. I too freaked out the first time I disconnected the battery but eventually it stops grinding and air starts blowing again. Also your throttle response might seem a bit more crisp; I think it dumps out the settings for the transmission and fly by wire throttle so the system has to 'relearn' your driving style. Remember the LS (at least the 95+ on models and I bet the LS 430 as well) does not have physical air flaps; instead there are vents etched in mylar and then the whole bit is on rollers; supposedly this makes the system lighter and more compact but I bet it takes forever for all those things to completely cycle through all their settings. No worries! It's hard to know what's going on sometimes when the car is this smart! The HVAC system is resetting itself after the battery was disconnected. It's going through all the settings and opening/closing dampers bringing it to an intial state. I believe it should only do it once though. I think I interrupted it by freaking out and removing the key from the ignition.
amcdonal86 Posted January 24, 2009 Author Posted January 24, 2009 Thanks for the info. I had no idea that the car didn't have air flaps!
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