u/redders6600

This may very well be common knowledge, but a comment in another thread from u/theflippantsouvenir just saved my trackpad experience.

Basically if you haven't removed the protective plastic sticker, the trackpad will feel sticky, be less responsive, and be all round horrible to use.

The sticker is transparent with no visible tab, so it's actually extremely hard to see, and I was initially worried that I was peeling away some integral part of the trackpad, but once it's off the difference is night and day.

I feel very silly!

I've noticed the Sealion 7 makes no noise when moving at slow speeds.

It's been a requirement since 2022 in the UK, and seems like a matter of time until someone notices?

I've seen on YouTube that there are options in some of the Seals, but I don't have the same menu options on my Sealion 7.

Thoughts?

I recently bought a BYD Sealion 7 in the UK.

Besides the fact that air vent fans have completely stopped working (diagnosis tbd), it's been great, but there are a few irritation with the software that really would be quick wins.

Is there a way to submit feedback to BYD directly? And if so, has anyone actually done it, and do they act on it?

Some of the things I'd Iike to see:

- The blind spot camera appears on the left hand side of the screen. For RHD cars this is far from the driver and it would be much better for that to be on the right.

- Switching between seat memory 1 and 2 is really common, but buried several menus deep. Ideally tie it to the key used, but if not, make it more easily accessible. The same applies to carplay - select device based on key used.

- Support adding a wide range of custom shortcut buttons to the "desktop". Swiping down from the top there are quick toggles, but it is arbitrarily limited to 6 of the most useful functions, and some things are missing. Trying to change settings when driving via a touchscreen is horrible.

- Switching between channels on DAB radio should ideally switch between favourite stations, with a menu option to switch to the current behaviour which is all stations. I can't see why anyone wants to go through thousands of DAB radio variants manually

- Audio dipping/ducking settings - there are SO many warnings and alerts that I have literally no clue why my music keeps ducking (going quieter) briefly. Let me turn that feature off.

- More fine-grained HUD control. I like the blind spot indicator but not some of the other ADAS things.

Harder to change (but maybe not impossible) - we have some nice manual switches and buttons, but some IMO are totally pointless. There's a dedicated switch to change regenerative braking power, something I will literally never change now I've set it to "high". Drive mode is similar - I rarely change drive mode (maybe twice a year), yet I have a dedicated switch - I'd rather have cabin temperature or heated/vented seats in these positions. The same applies to many of the steering wheel and stalk buttons - I don't really need to cycle the display settings. I wish car manufacturers would think more about what is used frequently and put those things as physical interfaces, but maybe with software we can remap them to something useful?

Overall it's a great car, and I am pretty sure most of my complaints are shared with others.