BYD Seal tips, tricks and help

[Andrew Dwyer]

51 minutes ago, motdaeng said:

the sim card (from singapore) in my sealion 7 seems useless ... i rarely get any signal! most  of the time the byd app won’t connect to the car, even when i'm standing right next to it. spotify and navigation usually don’t work either... unless i use android auto or a hotspot.

is there any way to improve the connection through settings?

 

i think all seal owners have received a thai sim card by now... surprisingly, i haven't heard of any other sealion 7 owners having this issue. maybe my sim card is the problem ... 

 

 

All good now 

 

 

 

That was a first for me and i use the remote start option often.

Have had it fail to start before but retrying immediately always succeeded but never for an extended period.

[carlyai]

@Andrew Dwyer Re SIM Card post and 'all good now'; what magic did you do?

AND did you see the posts on a Thai BYD site (sorry I keep forgetting to take the reference) about installing a spacer on the rear wheel hub...something about wheel not seating properly.

Also replacing the shocks.

These seem to be one off posts from owners not BYD.

I suppose if you are a teenager at heart you may want to harden up the ride and change the shocks.

Maybe the Sealion 7 will become a cult car like the Mustang or Sunbeam Alpine (my first sports car)?

I hear 'SHAME' coming from the ICE V8 brigade.

[Andrew Dwyer]

6 minutes ago, carlyai said:

@Andrew Dwyer Re SIM Card post and 'all good now'; what magic did you do?

AND did you see the posts on a Thai BYD site (sorry I keep forgetting to take the reference) about installing a spacer on the rear wheel hub...something about wheel not seating properly.

Also replacing the shocks.

These seem to be one off posts from owners not BYD.

I suppose if you are a teenager at heart you may want to harden up the ride and change the shocks.

Maybe the Sealion 7 will become a cult car like the Mustang or Sunbeam Alpine (my first sports car)?

I hear 'SHAME' coming from the ICE V8 brigade.

 Didn’t do anything, just checked if it was working again, by pulling down on the image, and it updated.

 

Haven’t seen the wheel spacer reference but the replacement of shocks, or just the springs, has been very common. I believe it started with Atto 3 ( ? ) as many don’t like the soft suspension.

 

Thai’s in general do like these modifications which “ apparently “ make improvements like the anti roll bars in a Honda Brio ! or rear spoilers which, imo, don’t give any advantage and are purely visual.

 

[Andrew Dwyer]

2 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

How do you turn off the voice prompt “you are exceeding the speed limit“
 

My Seal started doing it after the latest update and SIM card change

Wonder if it comes from the Navigation app, even if you don’t use it i believe it runs in the background, maybe can mute it there ?

I have seen messages about speed cameras pop up when not using any navigation, but those i don’t mind.

 

Some small changes appear after the latest update and SIM card change.

My wireless charging message doesn’t appear on the screen anymore and I still have the anomaly where when I turn on the A/C from the app the car doesn’t start and there is no indication anything has changed other than A/C sound.

If I want to start the car as well I press the seat ventilation button and the lights flash, mirrors pop out, screens come to life and car starts ! 
Bizarre indeed, have seen a few fb reports about this but no Seal owner on here reporting back.

Although I use remote A/C start frequency it still surprises me before i realise i have to press “ Start “ before driving off.

[JBChiangRai]

Navigation running in the background sounds about right, because I also get messages congestion ahead.

 

I have also noticed that it doesn’t start the car when you turn on the air-conditioning remotely anymore. The phone is wireless charging message still appears occasionally but it’s much much smaller and easy to miss, I think it’s at the bottom of the screen if I remember correctly

 

[mistral53]

16 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

Navigation running in the background sounds about right, because I also get messages congestion ahead.

 

I have also noticed that it doesn’t start the car when you turn on the air-conditioning remotely anymore. The phone is wireless charging message still appears occasionally but it’s much much smaller and easy to miss, I think it’s at the bottom of the screen if I remember correctly

 

I don't think that navigation is running in the background - the congestion message is just the lady babbling random nonsense, to keep herself relevant, or so she thinks.

 

How do I know? I ask BYD to navigate to a destination (from the root menu, without starting navigation first) and more often than not, her first reply is that she is not able to execute the request, its not in her scope of abilities. Next step is to ask for a weather forecast, and more often then not, she says she needs an Internet connection to comply with that. Ask again - she then will give me the weather forecast, ask again to navigate to a destination, she happily goes about it. (BTW, I am one of the very first that got the new SIM card installed)

[Andrew Dwyer]

10 minutes ago, mistral53 said:

I don't think that navigation is running in the background - the congestion message is just the lady babbling random nonsense, to keep herself relevant, or so she thinks.

 

How do I know? I ask BYD to navigate to a destination (from the root menu, without starting navigation first) and more often than not, her first reply is that she is not able to execute the request, its not in her scope of abilities. Next step is to ask for a weather forecast, and more often then not, she says she needs an Internet connection to comply with that. Ask again - she then will give me the weather forecast, ask again to navigate to a destination, she happily goes about it. (BTW, I am one of the very first that got the new SIM card installed)

The reason I think Navigation is running in the background is that the data used in “ data monitor “ increases without any any Navigation or voice command usage.( irrespective of when you got the SIM card 😬 ).

Typically i use Spotify only when local, starting tomorrow i will monitor how much data is being used by Navigation without any input from me.

[Andrew Dwyer]

Latest video from Bjørn, Xpeng G6 or BYD Sealion 7 comparison .

 

Like this comparison, ideal for those in the market for either of these EV’s.

 

[motdaeng]

7 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Latest video from Bjørn, Xpeng G6 or BYD Sealion 7 comparison .

 

Like this comparison, ideal for those in the market for either of these EV’s.

 

 

i chose the sealion 7 awd, and after watching the video and owning it for three weeks, i'm sure i made the right decision.

volvo, xpeng and zeekr were before also on my list, but since the nearest dealer is a 7-hour round trip away,

i decided to join the big byd family instead ...  

[jerrymahoney]

I know this is a serious topic but, for one who only knows BYD is an electric car that competes with Tesla, I kept wondering why there is an ongoing topic about the seals/gaskets going bad on the BYD cars.

Mea culpa.

[JBChiangRai]

1 hour ago, jerrymahoney said:

I know this is a serious topic but, for one who only knows BYD is an electric car that competes with Tesla, I kept wondering why there is an ongoing topic about the seals/gaskets going bad on the BYD cars.

Mea culpa.

I drive at BYD and that’s the first time I’ve heard that

[Andrew Dwyer]

Just now, JBChiangRai said:

I drive at BYD and that’s the first time I’ve heard that

 I think it is an attempt at humour …… with the emphasis on “ attempt “ 🙄

[carlyai]

I'm not sure, but the recent navigation of Chinese warships around Australia has bought out patriotic feelings in Australians that  could influence sales of BYD. Seems BYD is targeting Aus with many models.

Bad timing by the Chinese navy me thinks.

[Andrew Dwyer]

So, seems like the 2 year 2gb per month ( + additional 3 months ?? ) is coming to an end for some early Atto 3 adopters but no rumours about what comes after, anyone know ??

 

 

Note: apparently the poster of above photo has already changed to the True sim.

 

Several replies, to the fb group, suggesting just to fit your own but then there’s no access to the app and I like the remote A/C start. Not sure what else would be affected, OTA’s ??

[mistral53]

3 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

So, seems like the 2 year 2gb per month ( + additional 3 months ?? ) is coming to an end for some early Atto 3 adopters but no rumours about what comes after, anyone know ??

 

 

Note: apparently the poster of above photo has already changed to the True sim.

 

Several replies, to the fb group, suggesting just to fit your own but then there’s no access to the app and I like the remote A/C start. Not sure what else would be affected, OTA’s ??

 

While BYD marketing is an enigma, I would hope they have the good fortune to understand this is an easy revenue stream they can tap into....... it's just chicken sh$t of course, but a lot of chicken droppings will add up to a decent pile over time........lol