On occasion, when I get in the car in the garage, the seat defaults to the # 1 position, thereby nearly crushing me. All my XM stations are gone and the map has gone flat with north up. Hmmm.

Later on, after a run, it welcomes me as # 2 and all is well, XM stations and 3D map, etc.

The dealer says my wife must be walking by the car in the garage or something.

I have noticed that this mainly occurs after the car has been sitting awhile, like overnight. Well this time, my wife was nowhere around. Ah-HA! Could there be a drain on the electronics that's making it default to # 1? That's all I can think of, and the dealer, of course, can't find anything.

Ideas?

 

The car uses the last key that unlocked the car.


Try this scenario: Key #1 driver has the car out for some shopping. While out they lock and unlock the car. They drive home and park the car in the garage - but do NOT lock the car. Then key #2 driver gets in the car (no need to unlock the car). The car will default to key #1 since they were the last one to unlock the car.

 

^ That's it- it drove me crazy when my wife use to open my car with her key fob when we were both out and me driving. Work around is to lock/unlock car again prior to getting into it. We're past that now since my wife doesn't use the #2 key fob anymore.

 

Slightly off-topic but is there any way to share or sync the radio stations between the two drivers?? I'm the primary driver and am nearly always riding when my wife drives - irritates me to have no radio stations programmed when she's driving....

 

Only two choices:

1. Use the same key fob to unlock the car
2. Program everything you want the same to be the same.

 

Interesting about the last person to lock the car. But that's not entirely true. My wife rarely drives it and never locks it, just on long trips as relief driver and oh yeah, if I OD a little bit on margaritas at our favorite TexMex place. She may pass by my car in the garage after getting out of her RDX but that's it. The thing is, she can pass by it all day long and it has no effect. The only common denominator so far is cold starts after sitting over night, and that's only intermittent.

Meanwhile, the seat position is # 2 all day with no problem.

I shall try locking and unlocking - this would be done from the button on the door handle since our keys never leave pocket/purse. We can't program both fobs to be the same since there's a foot difference in height and she certainly has no interest in Willie's Roadhouse on XM.

 

^^ OMG! There is actually someone else other than me that Listen's to Willie's Roadhouse?!?! Nothing, and I mean nothing, beats good ol' country classics!

 

Yeah, and for Canadian ex-pats as well! I was one of two people transferred to Texas and funny, both of us listen to Willie's Roadhouse. Totally out of character for Canadians.

 

It's actually the last person to Unlock the car, on the driver's side. Even if my wife (fob 1) unlocks the car from the passenger side just before we both get into the car, as I (fob 2) touch the driver's handle the seat will slide back to my entry position. If I'm alone and unlock it from the driver door it will do that, as well, if she was the last driver and locked it. We just are in the habit of locking it, even in the garage.

 

That still doesn't totally fit my scenario since my wife never locks or unlocks the car, so when I take my car in for it's first oil change I'll see if they can detect some sort of battery loss overnight. But I certainly will begin locking the car even in the garage. It's no fun getting pushed up to the steering wheel while I scramble to push the # 2 button on the door.

 

Now I understand your Acurazine name

 

That is a pain, trying to figure out how some of these features work in relation to the dual remotes. I had an issue where both remotes were fighting each other when the car was locked and it would turn the puddle lamps and dome lights on and off at random. I finally determined that the driver 2 remote was too close to the garage and I moved it to a further location. Since then, no issues (that I'm aware of).

Have you tried swapping remotes with each other when you get into the car to see how that affects the setting. I guess you'll just have to try and eliminate all the scenarios to see which is causing the issue.

Good luck! At least you'll have the TLX troubleshooting team trying to replicate your issues in their homes.

 

Hopefully at least some of the Acura folks read Acurazine and VTEC.net, among others.

I have started locking the car in the garage. And since they seem to have snuck in some 8-spd DCT logic upgrades into the cross-traffic monitoring upgrade, I'm one happy camper with this car. But since I have messed-up hips from 1.) age and 2.) too many years with stick-shift cars, I patiently await the CDX (Acura's HR-V) with higher seating.

 

A-HA! It did it again, even when the car had been locked. I have two thoughts: My wife was about two feet away from the left front fender of the car and somehow her remote is stronger than mine, or the battery on my remote is failing. Though I did have to get close to the door to unlock it. (Again, the remotes never leave pocket or purse.) Just gathering up diagnoses for whenever I take the car in...

 

Just for grins and giggles, can you either swap the batteries in the remotes to test the battery strength hypothesis? Or maybe just try to put a new battery in your remote and leave the other alone. Maybe even change both batteries or perhaps even remove the battery from her remote to completely isolate yours.

All these things are just a way of shotgunning the troubleshooting, but the more you can eliminate, the quicker the problem will present itself (hopefully).

 

Couldn't you just press the #2 button on the door before you get in? Would that set the drivers setting to #2 and not crush you with the #1 setting?

 

I probably could, but that would mean opening the door wider, risking scratching my wife's RDX beside it. Besides it's an Acura so I shouldn't have to. So I just do the tight squeeze to rotate around the door and squeeze my butt in and down, and if the car acts up, hoping I can catch the #2 button before the car kills me. (Sorry, memories of Christine on the assembly line in the movie...)

I'll try it again with my wife's fob about two feet away from the LF corner of the car to see if it does it again. Then the battery swap sounds like a good test.