NHS Car Leases - any good?

[[TW]Fox]

You’d think but no. The separate profiles on each key is a faff and randomly resets. We also prefer to use the same key for simplicity. Sometimes “memory” seats forget, especially if an OTA resets them etc. So by the time you have pressed the corresponding number on the door for your seat position to very slowly whir and whine and creak into place, you would have adjusted the manual seat position and be driving.

When my wife ordered her C40 I worried the lack of electric adjust and memory functions would be a big loss. Instead it was a revelation in simplicity.

So the issue here is the Jaguar isn't very good then. Why does it randomly reset?!

I have manual seats in both cars now and there is absolutely nothing about them I prefer over the electric seats I'd rather have had.

 

[Deleted User 298457]

I have manual seats in both cars now and there is absolutely nothing about them I prefer over the electric seats I'd rather have had.

Manual forwards/backwards with electric everything else is god tier. They are just comically slow. I get the trade off if you have multiple drivers and memory function, but it only takes dropping something down the side of the seat once or twice to drive me mad with full electric

Edit: and my pals C43 2 door coupe with electric forward/back was even dumber.

 

[ICDP]

So the issue here is the Jaguar isn't very good then. Why does it randomly reset?!

I have manual seats in both cars now and there is absolutely nothing about them I prefer over the electric seats I'd rather have had.

I never specified that it was the Jaguar and the same problems occurred in our two previous BMWs and our two previous Audis.

Slooooooowwwwwwllllyyyy does it. Anything up to 10 seconds waiting for the seat to get into position. Then you have to adjust the rear mirror anyway.

It’s going to be subjective but I can see the benefits of electric memory function. Just that in practice it can ironically be more hassle IMHO when switching drivers a lot. And if you are the exclusive driver it is a pointless feature once you have adjust the seats.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

This is what we've ordered a Q8 from. My wife gets a car allowance which mostly covers the cost of the lease, so there was minimal impact to her pension.

 

[[TW]Fox]

I never specified that it was the Jaguar and the same problems occurred in our two previous BMWs and our two previous Audis.

Never had this and not sure why, unless it was broken, it would happen. It's not even complicated technology, it's been around for 30+ years?!

It’s going to be subjective but I can see the benefits of electric memory function. Just that in practice it can ironically be more hassle IMHO when switching drivers a lot. And if you are the exclusive driver it is a pointless feature once you have adjust the seats.

It takes me ages to find the right seating position, when I collect the car from a service and have to do the same thing all over again it's really annoying. Once it's done and nobody else moves it then you soon forget you ever wanted electric memory seats.

But you get reminded again next time the seat is moved

 

[ICDP]

Lol, it can be annoying if that happens. Thankfully my experience of most service centres is they leave the seat back/base and lumbar positions where the customer left them. They only adjust the forward/back position, which is an easy fix.

 

[Jonnycoupe]

You’d think but no. The separate profiles on each key is a faff and randomly resets. We also prefer to use the same key for simplicity. Sometimes “memory” seats forget, especially if an OTA resets them etc. So by the time you have pressed the corresponding number on the door for your seat position to very slowly whir and whine and creak into place, you would have adjusted the manual seat position and be driving.

When my wife ordered her C40 I worried the lack of electric adjust and memory functions would be a big loss. Instead it was a revelation in simplicity.

I cant agree with that as the memory is 16 way adjustment and includes the steering wheel and mirrors - you cant do that everytime manually with any degree of accuracy. The profiles are a bit flakey, jumping between driver profiles (now accounts with OS4.0.0 )that should allow drive changes to allow full seat adjustment when it recognisies keys and phone to include commutes, preferential radio stations (aswell as favourites) and temperature and seat settings based on trends with the outside weather.

My 10 year old Son loves pressing 3 to move the seat to where it is for him anyway - thats a game when the wife gets back in without memory....
That said the 24MY updates to Defender 90 has made the passenger side manual to allow much quicker access into the back

 

[ICDP]

I cant agree with that as the memory is 16 way adjustment and includes the steering wheel and mirrors - you cant do that everytime manually with any degree of accuracy

My 10 year old Son loves pressing 3 to move the seat to where it is for him anyway.

Like I said, I thought it was going to be a bigger deal, but it wasn't. A generic seat, steering and wing mirror position was easily found for both of us apart from back/forward position. Even the generic wing mirror position is perfectly fine for both of us. I am 5' 10" and my wife is 5' 7". Prior to this I would have been adamant it was an essential feature considering we car share a lot.

 

[theone8181]

Manual forwards/backwards with electric everything else is god tier. They are just comically slow. I get the trade off if you have multiple drivers and memory function, but it only takes dropping something down the side of the seat once or twice to drive me mad with full electric

Edit: and my pals C43 2 door coupe with electric forward/back was even dumber.

Was going to say that, having a know to adjust the angle is just poor. What's annoying in my car and previous ones with electric front/back movement is I tend to just use the one key and either one of us uses that key. My wife is 5 foot 3 and I'm 5 foot 11 so it needs a fair bit of movement. The only advantage I see is that with a profile it seta it to the exact distance.