V70 seat/mirrorcontrol virus

[Njord]

We have a 2002 V70 with a keyless entry and automatic drivers side seat.
According to the operator's manual, when the seat and outside mirror is set
for a particular driver and that driver exits the vehicle locking the door
with the keyless remote, the settings of the seat and the mirror are
retained such that when that remote is used to unlock the vehicle the
settings for that driver are used to adjust the seat and mirror if another
driver with a different setting has used the vehicle immediately before. The
computer on our vehicle seem to be infected with a virus or perhaps
possessed in some way. Sometimes the settings are restored as they should
be, other times the seat moves, but the mirror does not, sometimes neither
moves, sometimes the mirror moves but the seat does not. If appears
completely random. Is the car trying to drive us nuts?

Has anyone else experienced this anomaly?


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Njord

"Lord, your sea is so big, and my boat is so small"

Anonymous

 

[Mike F]

We have a 2002 V70 with a keyless entry and automatic drivers side seat.
According to the operator's manual, when the seat and outside mirror is set
for a particular driver and that driver exits the vehicle locking the door
with the keyless remote, the settings of the seat and the mirror are
retained such that when that remote is used to unlock the vehicle the
settings for that driver are used to adjust the seat and mirror if another
driver with a different setting has used the vehicle immediately before. The
computer on our vehicle seem to be infected with a virus or perhaps
possessed in some way. Sometimes the settings are restored as they should
be, other times the seat moves, but the mirror does not, sometimes neither
moves, sometimes the mirror moves but the seat does not. If appears
completely random. Is the car trying to drive us nuts?

Has anyone else experienced this anomaly?

--

Njord

"Lord, your sea is so big, and my boat is so small"

Anonymous

One thing my dad has found that helps on his '01 is that you have to
lock the car with the same remote that you've unlocked it with.

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Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

NOTE: new address!!
Replace tt with t (twice!) and remove parentheses to email me directly.
(But I check the newsgroup more often than this email address.)

 

[Stephen M. Henning]

Sometimes the settings are restored as they should
be, other times the seat moves, but the mirror does not, sometimes neither
moves, sometimes the mirror moves but the seat does not. If appears
completely random. Is the car trying to drive us nuts?

I always save my settings. For example with my remote I always save as
#1 and with my wife and her remote she saves the settings as #2. When I
use my remote it restores the #1 settings. When she uses her remote it
restores to the #2 settings. It always works.

 

[Njord]

One thing my dad has found that helps on his '01 is that you have to
lock the car with the same remote that you've unlocked it with.

--
Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

NOTE: new address!!
Replace tt with t (twice!) and remove parentheses to email me directly.
(But I check the newsgroup more often than this email address.)

Thanks for your reply. Yes, we are aware of that.

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Njord

"Lord, your sea is so big, and my boat is so small"

Anonymous

 

[Njord]

I always save my settings. For example with my remote I always save as

#1 and with my wife and her remote she saves the settings as #2. When I
use my remote it restores the #1 settings. When she uses her remote it
restores to the #2 settings. It always works.

Thanks for your reply. Glad yours always works, ours does not. We save #1
and #2 as you do, but if I lock the car with my settings and my remote, and
she then uses the car and locks it with hers (with her settings in place)
and then I come along and unlock with mine, sometimes my settings get set,
sometimes funny things happen as I described in my original post. It's the
seemingly random results that is driving us up a wall. Another little fact.
If my settings are partially or totally not restored, I can get them by
pushing the seat button. For example, let's say when I open with my remote,
the seat adjusts but the mirror does not. I can get the mirror to assume my
adjustment by pressing the #1 seat button.

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Njord

"Lord, your sea is so big, and my boat is so small"

Anonymous