Why do i have to hold the button down until my setting is fully set?

 

To quote Dora the Explorer. "So we can be safe"
Too many people complain that while driving if they hit the button accidentally then it may result in an unsafe situation.

Possible story... A very short woman takes her very tall husbands car to work one morning. While putting on make-up, texting, changing radio station, reading the morning paper, and eating her bagel, she gets distracted and swerves to miss running into the back of a semi-truck. Somehow she hit #1 on the memory seats which is her very tall husbands setting and the seats and steering wheels adjusts and pulls her away from the steering wheel and brake pedal she frantically lunges to get back at the controls but the pre-safe safety seat belt only latches on stronger. She breaks a nail and spills her hot coffee in her lap.
She sues MBUSA.

And TJ writes and directs a movie based on the whole incident.

 

I've wondered about this because a one-touch setting seems like it would be so much more convenient. But the safety explanation makes sense.

Has anyone driven a car that does have one-touch seat memory?

 

Yeah..my 2007 Chevy Tahoe has 1 touch which also is programmed into the remotes (which also has remote start). One remote is for memory setting 1 and one remote is for memory setting 2 - you unlock the car with the remote and the seats automatically adjust to the corresponding memory settings - never have to touch the buttons inside the car. Simple solution to safety issue - the memory buttons do NOT work while car is in gear. One touch is SO much better.

 

Yea its a lazy "safety feature."
If they wanted to implement a safety feature for 1 touch memory seats the easy answer would be to disable one-touch when the car is not in park.
Or pair the seat setting to the key and only have it auto adjust at start-up.

 

Shame on MB!! My 07 mazda has the seat memory linked to the individual keys. If my wife unlocks the doors, the seat adjusts the seats to her memory and my key sets the seats to my memory. Also the one touch memory feature becomes disengaged when in gear. This is NOT exactly new technology.

 

Our Acura MDX is linked to the keys and is also one touch.

 

Yeah, I have to agree MB blew it on this one. Disabling memory while in gear is a very simple solution.

I wouldn't rank it as a serious issue, but definitely a detail they could have handled better.

 

It is obviously disabled in drive in every vehicle. I honestly thought it was defective. Its one touch in my lexus and for mb to not have this is crazy.

 

My '01 E46 BMW had one touch so long as the car was not running. Once you started it, even in park, you had to hold the button. But it was simple to open the door, hit the appropriate button, wait a few seconds for the adjustment, then hop in and go.

At least the W212 buttons are on the door, which makes it somewhat easier to hold while standing.

 

i start the car first before i move the seats

 

Too tough for me...my wife is almost a foot shorter. If she's driven last I can't get in.

 

HAHA I know the feeling. I'm 6' and she's 5'3"

 

Has anyone driven a car that does have one-touch seat memory?[/quote]

Cars made in America and Asia.
This is probably one of those German M-B engineering ideas, like shift on steering column, cruise control where rest of world puts turn signal, audio has to be one for back up camera and navigation to work, etc.

 

My Audi A6 had one touch and was tied to the key fob, neither would work while the car moving. You would then have to hold it down.

Pretty simple to work out, this is a pretty anoying miss for MB, also garage door button dont work after the key is removed, this should be part of the active electronics that remain on unil you exit the car.

 

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Cars made in America and Asia.
This is probably one of those German M-B engineering ideas, like shift on steering column, cruise control where rest of world puts turn signal, audio has to be one for back up camera and navigation to work, etc.[/quote]

.....cruise control where rest of world puts turn signal.....
Consumer Reports has been on a one-org. crusade to change this for years. Those German engineers can be stubborn when they know they're right.

.....audio has to be one for back up camera and navigation to work.....
Utterly unfathomable. Hope they fix that for '12. Unless, of course, they know they're right.

Al

 

Made me laugh - always wondered !!

 

Guys! Come on!
You set it, hold the button for 2 secs and its done. What is the issue here?
If you want something to think about, credit cards came with chip/pin technology to help - note help - cut down on fraud. What did the banks do next. They gave us swipe technology which over rides the chip/pin because we are in too much of a hurry to take 2 secs to put in the PIN.
Yes we are not responsible for more than $100 of fraud but the hassle to get clear of it is ridiculous.
Now that is something to worry about. (I returned all bank and credit cards that came with swipe technology