Seats moved overnight
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Seats moved overnight
Has anyone had their seats reposition themselves overnight?
Solved sorta; Never having used rear seat fold down option before, I hid a present in the car, had to fold down seats not noticing the front had moved as I didn't need the car for several days.
If the operation of folding rear setbacks down for cargo room moves the front seat out of way, shouldn't returning the rear seat to the locked up position return front seats to previous condition? No person could safely operate any vehicle with seats in this position.
Solved sorta; Never having used rear seat fold down option before, I hid a present in the car, had to fold down seats not noticing the front had moved as I didn't need the car for several days.
If the operation of folding rear setbacks down for cargo room moves the front seat out of way, shouldn't returning the rear seat to the locked up position return front seats to previous condition? No person could safely operate any vehicle with seats in this position.
Last edited by Rickman30; Jun 21, 2023 at 03:33 PM. Reason: New issue same symptom
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No, I believe I have that turned off and the second key remains in the house for a backup, I'm the only driver. The seats did not move to a memory location, both front seats raised all the way up, all the way forward, headrests all the way up, and the seat backs tilted all the way forward or straight up. Where the seats are not ever readjusted as they are perfect. I was concerned as both seats are separated by individual modules only thing that connects them should be power source and memory buttons.
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We did have a pretty bad lightning storm. My neighbor's truck is bad broken today as well, all electronics are inoperable and he had it towed to dealer. My other neighbor has the residential heat and air, the unit in attic quit during storm. I'm wondering if this was affected by that, I didn't know about the others till I walked out front just now and saw the A/C van a nt the tow truck.
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Only once I have had to reset the seats, it was over a weekend. Didnt touch the car for a few days and when going to work in morning the driver seat was repositioned. Now only reason I can think of is that I pressed the #2 saved spot when I was getting out originally and it had enough time to move the seat. Thats the only thing I can think of since no one else touched the car other then me.
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I agree with that, but both seats were in the extreme position noted in a later post. I later today locked the car with front windows down, waited 20 min. for all modules to be completely asleep and found power to seats still available even with key well beyond the 3 feet threshold.
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No, I believe I have that turned off and the second key remains in the house for a backup, I'm the only driver. The seats did not move to a memory location, both front seats raised all the way up, all the way forward, headrests all the way up, and the seat backs tilted all the way forward or straight up. Where the seats are not ever readjusted as they are perfect. I was concerned as both seats are separated by individual modules only thing that connects them should be power source and memory buttons.
Meaning single switch malfunction could do it.
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Seat memory may be at play here...
When driver#1 stores it's prefered settings in the solderless door control unit (aka DCU) they are recalled when unlocking car with #1 key.
If driver#2 key is used, #2 memory settings are retrieved automagically.
When driver#1 stores it's prefered settings in the solderless door control unit (aka DCU) they are recalled when unlocking car with #1 key.
If driver#2 key is used, #2 memory settings are retrieved automagically.
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But, as stated earlier, second key is never used I'm the only driver. Seats were all the way forward, the backs tilted all the way forward, and as I have discovered, previously had folded back seats down.
Now the question is, if this is normal operation of folding rear seat backs down to allow larger cargo, why didn't seats return to previous settings after seats were returned to their upright locked position?
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Yes, I did. And it does. I'm wondering all this technology, no one thought to have the seats return to previous position after stowing the rear seats back.
If I was a few pounds more, or drank a few beers everyday with a gut to prove it, getting in the car like this with your stomach pinned to the steering wheel might be an issue.
If I was a few pounds more, or drank a few beers everyday with a gut to prove it, getting in the car like this with your stomach pinned to the steering wheel might be an issue.
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You can just push the #1 setting or which ever number you programmed your preference too while the door is open. Dont have to sit down to do it. Unless ofcourse your already committed and dont realize quick enough like I have done with my wifes kia (she is 5'1 Im 6'2 with few extra beer pounds that you speak of).
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You can just push the #1 setting or which ever number you programmed your preference too while the door is open. Dont have to sit down to do it. Unless ofcourse you're already committed and dont realize quick enough like I have done with my wifes kia (she is 5'1 Im 6'2 with few extra beer pounds that you speak of).
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The driver's seat can be moved back to wherever you want to, but the passenger seat cannot. I'm talking about my first 2011 E350 and current 2010 E550. Both cars I had coding changed at the dealer so the passenger seat can also be moved to position you can actually sit on while rear seat back is down.
Totally overengineered useless feature as the seat must be manually fold down and who ever does it will see if front seat must be moved, which it does not unless a long person uses the front seat.
I just recently saw a video of this feature on an older model, I think W211, which had the rear seat bottom fold forward. For those the front seat needs to move forward. I just don't know how you drive the car with it as the seat position is unusable for driving the car. I think MB forgot to remove this front seat move when they removed the seat bottom fold.
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I've had both my seat settings and steering wheel position, as entered in memory, change on their own. I'm the only driver and I always use the same key fob. Every couple of weeks I hit the "1" memory setting to restore things. Have no idea why the settings change, but then, not much surprises me with this vehicle anymore.
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I've had both my seat settings and steering wheel position, as entered in memory, change on their own. I'm the only driver and I always use the same key fob. Every couple of weeks I hit the "1" memory setting to restore things. Have no idea why the settings change, but then, not much surprises me with this vehicle anymore.
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The easy entry is only set to move the steering wheel, not the seat. Can't speak re: Rodents (though after they got into both my CLS and V90 a couple of years ago I had an exterminator come and fumigate and set traps. Haven't seen a mouse in a couple of years.)
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I see, then it is a mystery, I wonder if a module reset at night due to a voltage issue and then the seat was therefore adjusted due to a sudden loss of communication (or incorrect instructions from the computer).
