Lesson Learned but why

[67 Stang Convertible]

Fall is here and it's a great time of year. However, I have my car set to Precondition the cabin before work. Well yesterday was a little chilly outside (59 degrees) and the insulated garage was (64 degrees) and my Preconditioning was still set to "Cool" instead of "Heat" or "Medium". So when I jumped in yesterday I had to immediately throw on the heater. So yes after I got to work I trudged into the voluminous menu and switched it to precondition the cabin to heat.

But here is my real question. A few days before this happened I had remote started my car and once again it was "Cool" outside. I was Pleasantly surprised to see my MME had turned on my heated seat as well as my heated steering wheel. I had not turned them on since last winter, so I know it was not just resuming what was previously on. So, I assume the car recognized the outside temp and adjusted accordingly. So if that capability exist with in the car; why not just have the car do that for the preconditioning? (I know 1st world problems and all but still).

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[Mach-Lee]

Cool, Medium, and Warm are the three cabin temperature set points. Not whether or not the cabin will be heated or cooled. The car will decide whether to heat or cool based on the conditions to reach the selected cabin temperature.

I suggest you set all your precondition temperatures to Medium unless you like the car particularly hot or cold when you get in, which are what the other settings are for. The other Cool/Warm settings are geared towards heavily pre-chilling or pre-heating the cabin and then driving with the HVAC off to save battery.

Heat seats and wheel are turned on when the outside temp is below a certain threshold (59ºF?).