So having had the car for over a month now, I've come to understand some of the limitations of the smart systems....
1. TWC/UMC won't open your charge port if the car is locked. Had this yesterday, walked out without a key or phone and pressing the button did nothing. So can't pop out just to plug it in, you need your key - or atleast unlock it first.
2. The car will lock your kids inside (presumably they can open the doors from the inside, but the car will lock) if you walk away, or even around the car with your phone. This is constantly annoying for me, get out, close your door, go to the house door to open it, car locks, walk back to the car, bluetooth playing up car wont open, get your phone out, find the unlock button.... Sometimes the car will lock before I even manage to walk around to the boot to get the UMC.
3. Phone as key will stop working on you just as you are demonstrating this feature to your friends. Having to restart bluetooth on more than one occasion.
4. Phone battery drain is significantly higher. Yes I did the whole 'disable battery optimisation' in the settings, but the phone no longer really sleeps unless you turn off bluetooth.
5. Opening the car app does not always wake up the car, but unlocking it via the app does straight away. So car stuck waking up? Hit unlock and it will wake up straight away. I usually end up doing that if it fails to wake up after 2-3 seconds and lock it again, then start conditioning. Why would unlock command wake the car and not a wake command, programmatically that makes no sense.
6. As everyone knows, even touching the app wakes the car up, which then drains the battery faster. Would be nice to look at it without it waking up straight away.
7. No widgets? Really?
As it is I'm leaning more towards getting a fob. From what I read it functions differently to the cards by being a proximity powered key. So I can have it in my pocket and it will reliably unlock the car. Since I'm having to carry my house key around anyway that seems like the best option.
1. TWC/UMC won't open your charge port if the car is locked. Had this yesterday, walked out without a key or phone and pressing the button did nothing. So can't pop out just to plug it in, you need your key - or atleast unlock it first.
2. The car will lock your kids inside (presumably they can open the doors from the inside, but the car will lock) if you walk away, or even around the car with your phone. This is constantly annoying for me, get out, close your door, go to the house door to open it, car locks, walk back to the car, bluetooth playing up car wont open, get your phone out, find the unlock button.... Sometimes the car will lock before I even manage to walk around to the boot to get the UMC.
3. Phone as key will stop working on you just as you are demonstrating this feature to your friends. Having to restart bluetooth on more than one occasion.
4. Phone battery drain is significantly higher. Yes I did the whole 'disable battery optimisation' in the settings, but the phone no longer really sleeps unless you turn off bluetooth.
5. Opening the car app does not always wake up the car, but unlocking it via the app does straight away. So car stuck waking up? Hit unlock and it will wake up straight away. I usually end up doing that if it fails to wake up after 2-3 seconds and lock it again, then start conditioning. Why would unlock command wake the car and not a wake command, programmatically that makes no sense.
6. As everyone knows, even touching the app wakes the car up, which then drains the battery faster. Would be nice to look at it without it waking up straight away.
7. No widgets? Really?
As it is I'm leaning more towards getting a fob. From what I read it functions differently to the cards by being a proximity powered key. So I can have it in my pocket and it will reliably unlock the car. Since I'm having to carry my house key around anyway that seems like the best option.