Memory Seats Have a Mind of Their Own How to Reset and Program Memory Seats

More often than not, people think there's something wrong with their memory seats when they didn't set them up properly, and they bring them in to have them repaired and there's nothing wrong with them. In this video, we're gonna show you how to properly relearn your memory seat and to find out if there's something wrong with it.

The first thing you need to do is calm down. Don't just keep pushing buttons when it's not working right. It's just like a computer, when you put too many inputs in it, it's gonna freeze, it doesn't know what to do. Take a look at your owner's manual. The procedures for all of these memory seats are gonna be slightly different, but the basics are gonna be the same. I'm gonna show you how to do it on this Chevy Silverado.

Take the key fob, sometimes they're labeled one and two, sometimes they're not labeled, but the brains of the key fobs are still different and it does make a difference. If you grab the wrong key fob, your memory seats are not gonna work properly on certain vehicles. With most vehicles, you want the vehicle in park and turn the key into the on-position or start the vehicle. In some vehicles, you have to push down on the parking brake. Then you wanna set the seat to where you want it. Set all the seat positions. And even the mirrors. Now, everything is set where we want it. On some vehicles, you will have a set button that you have to either push down and listen for a beep, or hold it down and then push the number one, and hold the number one down. And then, I heard two beeps. So now that is set.

Here's how a lot of people mess this up. You set the seat to where you want it, and then, instead of holding the button down or instead of hitting the set button, you just push the button, and that just brings it back to another spot. And then, you're frustrated because it's not working properly. So make sure you hold that button down till you hear the beeps.

Now, let's talk about the easy exit function. So when I hit the easy exit function, you're can see the seat's actually moving forward. Someone did not set this up right. So let's set this up properly. When you're in function one or driver one, you're gonna move the seat to where you want it when you're getting out of the vehicle. So we'll move it all the way back. In some cases, if you have a higher-end vehicle, the steering wheel might actually move. You can move that up and out of the way as well.

Now, let's hold down the exit button until you hear the two beeps. And now, I'll move the seat up, and we'll try the exit function. And it's working properly. Where people mess this up, is there's only one exit button, and it's not gonna be the same for driver one or driver two. You have to set it when you're in that position. So what you wanna do is set driver two where it needs to be, set it all up, set that. And then set your exit function for driver two. Put it where you want the seat to be and then set it. Hold the button down, wait two beeps. There's the two beeps, and now the exit function is set in a proper location.

Now, when you're exiting the vehicle, you could always push the button manually to get the seat to move. Or, a lot of vehicles, you can set it up so it does it automatically. Wherever you can find the vehicle settings, sometimes it's on the cluster, sometimes it's on the radio, you wanna select that, and then scroll through, and easy exit seat off. If you turn that on, now that will work properly. And see, the second I take the key out, the seat moves back to the exit position. Some vehicles, you have to put the vehicle in park and open the door within a certain amount of time. There's also a possibility you hit the button by accident and programmed it incorrectly, someone borrowed your vehicle and programmed it by accident, you grabbed the remote or the slim possibility that there's actually something wrong with that system. But more likely than not, it's just user error and it will be a simple fix.

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