Discussing car seat settings, etc "driver 1" and "driver 2"-

I'm driver one in my car. But I feel like I still am adjusting things after dh has driven it, esp the seat belt height as I'm short. And I hate when he leaves the radio on really loud and I get in the car next (esp when it's 6:00 am and I'm headed to work).

He pretty much always drives. He prefers to drive and I prefer to relax and watch the scenery, read, play on my phone etc. Oh and tell him how to drive!

I didn't know my car had saved settings until I picked it up from the shop on Saturday and it told me that I'm driver 1 when I got into the car. The tech must have est me to driver 1 before changing the settings so he could pull the car into the shop.

I wish our cars had seat memory. But, he usually drives when we go out together.

We have our family vehicle and then DH has his truck (uses it for work too). The family vehicle is the one I always drive, but when we are together DH usually drives. I really don't care. I do use the settings and I think I am driver 2 even though DH has never preset any settings to be driver 1. I actually push the 1 button for my preset so not sure why the control panel says I'm driver 2.

DH and I are Driver 1 in the cars we each drive more often. We are both Driver 2 on the other one's car. It adjusts the seats, the mirrors, etc. I would hate to go back to not having seat memory lol

We split driving when we're together. I actually prefer driving.

ETA: It's linked to our key fobs as well, but it also always seems to know who is driving even if we are both in the car and both have our keys (and got in from the garage, so didn't unlock the car with either fob). I'm imagining it's something to do with the proximity sensors that are in the fobs (which also allow keyless unlocking when you're close enough). 

I love the seat settings buttons. On weekdays, I ride to DH’s office with him in the morning, pick up my grandbaby as our son works with DH, drive home for the day then reverse in the afternoon. DH prefers to drive so we wear those buttons out!

I don’t have memory seats in my car, but my husband does in his car. It’s linked to the key fobs and so if you are carrying key fob #2 you are driver #2. Maybe try using the other key fob.

We like the memory seats in his car because I am 11 inches shorter than he is so before this, if I drove his car it was like I was sitting in the trunk and it took him days to get his seats reset the way he wanted.

My husband and I use the same seat settings which is strange as he is several inches taller than me. I love the easy exit feature on our car and was upset that it was not working after the last oil change. Husband read the manual and got out the CD that came with the car and could not fix it. I got out there in fifteen minutes and had it working again. He is so tech challenged!

Anyway, if both of us are in the car he is driving unless under doctor's orders not to. But it still identifies me as Driver 1. If it is your car, you SHOULD be Driver 1 and I validate you on this.

Driver #1 and Driver #2 are connected to your key fobs in newer cars. You are carrying the key fob that originally was programmed as driver #2.

Yep, tied to the key fobs, and I am driver 1 for my car and driver 2 for one of his cars. I drive mine when we are together; he drives his when we ride together. Makes for a happy family.

Your car can only read 1 fob at a time, so it is reading/locking in on the fob programmed for driver #2, even though you are carrying both. 

Mine does that too but I had no idea what it was called. Hubby's does it also.

Pretty much this. I’m driver one, and it really wasn’t hard to set it. I think on mine I set the seats and mirrors where I wanted them and held the Driver 1 button down until it beeped. Boom, done. We take my car if we can get away with it, meaning we don’t need to haul anything or tow anything. I almost never drive when he is with me. He’s so critical of my driving (you’re going too slow, why don’t you use the cruise control, etc.) so the heck with it, he can drive and I will play my word game on my phone! And ditto the new truck, he just traded in the 2016 last week so he’s only driven the current one himself a handful of times.

On a related note, with the cell phone pairing, he set that up so his phone would be the default and mine would be the alternate one. That way when he’s driving his is connected automatically and when he’s not with me mine will. The advantage with doing it this way is that when he’s driving I can still look things up on my phone.

He always fumbles with the buttons and ends up resetting my seat settings. It takes me a hundred years to get the seat far enough to reach the paddles so it always makes me grumble. I definitely want to be #1 in my car and I want him to stop fussing with the buttons.

Most of the time he drives if we are together. It makes him feel manly I think so I let him have the moment 😂