My won't work for a couple hours after. When I first noticed it was something to do with precondition while plugged in, I tired restarting 4 times one morning, two in the cab, one remote, and did a schedule, non of which would get the steering wheel to work. I tried while on break at work, to find it working then.
I agree. Shame on the folks who complain about Volvo’s Sensus screen. Though, I wonder if part of the issue is that Ford is trying to balance accessory use against adverse impact on range by tempering the heated steering wheel to give us just enough.Can we get the steering wheel warmer? My volvos have three levels of heat. The highest is good for a short time, but then you need to turn it down or put on a pair of gloves. I would rather have a hot steering wheel with it on and cycle it than have it just warm enough to maybe not need to wear gloves (or give us multi-level heat...like be the seat). The problem with gloves is the screen controls...Volvo does a better job with that too (screen works satisfactorily with gloves on). As weak as the heat is, it is still better than nothing.
Exact same thing as my issue.
Yes, enough sleep time afterward allowed it to work normally from a regular startup from lukewarm status, I'm going to pad my pre-conditioning time by 15 minutes and see if that's enough of a margin, might need to go longer as you suspect.ok so yeah remote starting heats the wheel still and I also tried it about 3 hours after shutting down from it not working all drive and it worked again, so there's that..
but here's a neat little trick I figured out that worked two days in a row now:
so I opened the garage at my normal morning departure time but it snowed overnight so I shovelled the driveway for bout 20mins, then noticed truck shut itself off (assuming it thought I wasn't really going for a drive), so I unplugged and hopped in and everything was obviously still super warm, started it up and the heated wheel worked! so last night I changed my departure time for 20 mins earlier than I actually leave, and this morning the truck was off again, which couldn't have been for more than a few mins cuz the cabin was nice and hot, unplugged and turned it on and the heated steering wheel worked once again! so not sure how long exactly it keeps heating the cab for after the departure time until it turns off, 15 mins is my guess, but could be a quick fix to have a conditioned truck from house power and an actual working heated wheel on your drive til they hopefully fix the bug with an update
20 minutes might be the sweet spot, the truck stopped pre-conditioning at that point.
After starting the truck normally it only took a couple minutes for the steering wheel to come up to temp, which is an improvement.
This mornings charging session ran 71 minutes to take on ~20.7 kWh of energy from the FCSP.
The station paused, until 7:26 am running until 7:55 for battery & cabin conditioning.
Then Idled 7:55 to 8:10,
8:11 and afterward the truck stopped taking current and the blower was off at 8:15
23.9 kWh consumed for yesterdays 28 miles of driving plus this mornings preconditioning and cabin warming, 1.17 MPK overall for the drive cycle, if I leave out preconditioning it's 1.4 MPK which includes losses and 3 events of standalone (on battery) cabin warming.
