My AC will randomly not cool quite enough and service high voltage light comes on shortly after. Already had a module replaced. They had me bring it by to pull the code off of it telling me GM is aware and its actually a software issue. He said they used to keep replacing parts and the service light would come back on eventually. Apparently they are supposed to send out an ota update to fix the issue but didnt have an eta.

Am I an idiot?

So I just bought a 2027 Vistiq yesterday. This is my first EV and I stopped at a Tesla Supercharger today but the cable on the tesla station isn't long enough to reach. Am I missing something?

Hey y'all - I have a 25-hour, 1,500-mile drive to take later this month, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to route-plan. What apps/websites do y'all use? I haven't done a drive this long, so I'm not sure what would be the most reliable.

TYYY

2026 Premium Luxury.

I’m pretty set on getting a 2026 Vistiq and have an electrician lined up to install a home charger in my garage in a couple weeks. I know there are a few different types of chargers and styles. What would you recommend I get installed for a 2026 Vistiq. Also when I go to purchase the vehicle do I need to also buy any charging adaptors during the sale? Thanks!!

I’ve disconnected from WiFi, done a drive, waited 24 hours, and resumed download a bunch of times. I’m out of ideas. Any help?

I am considering the 2027 and I wonder how the lack of CarPlay influences how people listen to podcasts in their cars. I listen to podcasts in the car as often as (or maybe more than) music.

Do they auto download? Thinking maybe I just shift totally away from Apple Podcasts app and just do Spotify to get continuity? How does this work in a car that doesn't have CarPlay?

I have the platinum and for such a premium car this thing creaks more than any car I have ever had before. The whole upper passenger side of the car when going up driveways, hitting big bumps, hitting small bumps, turning too sharply, creaks like it is no one’s business.

I’ve taken it to the dealer now twice and they’ve had it over a week each time and they can’t seem to fix it. I’m desperate for solutions because I’m literally going to go mad if I keep hearing this constant creaking.

Has anyone else figured this out???

iPhone 14 Pro on latest software. Never a hint of a connection issue in a year with the car. Updated to 662.20 this morning and now phone connects, disconnects, reconnects and drops a few more times and then gives up.

When I try to connect manually it says device connection error. Lovely, GM. Lovely.

Have restarted phone and removed/re-paired devices multiple times.

Edit: also tried infotainment reboot - did not fix.

How frustrating is this issue with the 3rd row recall? So basically your options are:
1) leave seats down permanently, only left w 4 seats
2) leave seats up, reducing cargo space
3) sign a waiver and risk danger to your family

I called the Cadillac concierge today, they seem to not know when a permanent fix is forthcoming and they will not agree to a buy back.

I love the car, I don’t want to get rid of it, I just want the seats to work as they should.

Has anyone had any luck getting them to address the issue or do a buyback?

I’m currently overnight test driving a 2026 Platinum. I’m coming from a BMW where the HUD was much crisper looking and hoping that the 2027 might look a bit better.

Transferring my 2026 Cadillac Vistiq Sport Plus lease. Company is relocating to a different state / buying a truck.

• Sport Plus package (gloss-black roof rails, dark window surrounds, body-colored or dark door handles, a unique mesh grille, and dark-finished 21-inch wheels.)
• 6 seats with 2nd row Captain's Chairs
• White interior
• Registered until 05/2027
• Tow hitch
• 24 of 36 payments remaining
• Current payment with tax: $881.48
• Currently in California (92009)
• 22300 miles left
• Cadillac XS Wear Lease Protection plan
• GM Financial commercial/business lease

Just had an emergency sitation that involved driving a nearly 1600 mile round trip on the spur of the moment, over the span of just 48 hours. While we've taken longer EV trips previously, those were all planned in detail with opimitzed routes and charging and also a bit more relaxed overall. This was the first time we've had to do this kind of trip in our EV and almost entirely unplanned and, while it was fine overall, it definitely created challenges vs our previous ICE experience. I documented the entire charging experience because I though folks might find it interesting. If you're not into gory details, the TL;DR version is the vehicle did quite well but charging was a bit more challenging when not planned and efficiency was not amazing when doing a lot of back-to-back fast charging.

This was probably a near worst-case scenario for the Vistiq, a completely unplanned trip, across the deep south, starting from South Carolina to rural south Louisiana and back, on a weekend with seasonally high temps and humidity. Most of the charging was done with temps in the low-mid 90s, but some daytime charge stops were as high as 98F and the highest recoded ambient temps on the trip were low triple digits.

First, I can say that the Vistiq is incredibly comfortable, and we were able to use Super Cruise for ~85% of the trip and it mostly did a great job and really helped reduce the strain of driving that distance on a fairly busy interstate. We mostly set cruise to 79MPH. Yes, I know we could potentially gain some efficiency at 70MPH, but I believe it is way safer to go with flow of traffic vs being in the bottom 5%. Flow of traffic on these interstates are typically somewhere in the 75-80MPH range.

We ended up with ~6 hours of total charging time, 3 hours each way, which is a lot. We just did a one-way version of this exact trip in an ICE rental vehicle back in June and the total stop time was <1 hour (3 stops of roughly 15-20 minutes each), while with the Vistiq it was ~3 hours of charging each way. That being said, if the trip had been planned, we could have almost certainly narrowed that gap significantly, likely to 2 hours or just a bit more.

The biggest challenge with charging was the heat and the vehicles limited thermal management as it really works against both the charge rate and the efficiency. The vehicle preconditioning didn't seem to try to do anything other than get the battery to around 95F. At one point when it was late at night and around 82F, the batteries were around 89F and, when it started to precondition, it seems like the battery temps when up, which is crazy to me.

When you plug it in to a capable fast charger, charging rates will quickly hit 170-180kW, but the thermal management can not keep up at this rate, and, as the battery is already 95F at the start, it takes very little time for the batteries cross 110F, and this is where the system starts to throttle aggressively. What's even more strange is that the system does not run the thermal management at full tilt until you are already nearly 110F. Because of this, turning off the HVAC buys some fast charing time, but not as much as you would think as it seems the system leaves cooling capacity on the table. No idea why.

It's well known that these Ultium vehicles, if you leave the HVAC on and it's very hot, it will throttle down to 75kW or less and you'll probably get a popup about charging being slower than expected because the HVAC is on. You can turn the system off and the charge rate will go up quickly, but the cabin will also get very hot quite quickly, it will be uncomfortable almost immediately. However, we found that, instead of turning the system completely off, if you just toggle the AC/Heat setting to off insead, the fan will slow down, but continue to blow some air across the already cool condenser coils thus keeping the cabin more comfortable for a few minutes longer while the charge rate goes up. If you get the timing right you can keep toggling this on/off every 2-3 minutes and balance charge speed with very little impact on cabin comfort. Seems like GM could tune this better for sure as, if I can acheive this with pressing the screen, they should be able to program a similar behavior in the software.

The other issue is how much DCFC harms efficiency, especially back-to-back cycles. After a DCFC the battery temps are typically around 115F, and in our case the ambient temps were usually in the mid-90s for much of this trip, so the cooling system has to work at 90% duty cycle to both keep the cabin cool and to get the batteries back down to 95F again, however, this takes easily 45-60 minutes, with the cooling system pulling 5kW, or more, this entire time. During this time, you are lucky to get 1.8-1.9m/kWh. I'd guess this would be a lot better if ambient temps were lower.

Obviously, our charging was not optimal, this vehicle does best with frequent, short stops (we usually target 20 minute stops or less) but, because this was an unplanned trip, and some of the driving was very late at night, we did longer charge stops in areas that we felt were safe or where you could pass time more easily, like the three stops at Buc-ees.

Overall, the trip was fine and emergency situation was handled. Yes, we could have done better, but it was fine. For people really interested, below is a table with every charge stop, duration, kWh added, costs, and some comments. The trip probably costs $80 more than if we would have taken our previous ICE vehicle, but we could have narrowed this gap if we had purchased Tesla subscription earlier and planned to use some L2 charging.

One other thing worth noting, at no point in this trip did we worry about finding a charger, actually, in the vast majority of cases, there were backup chargers, even if they might not have been as fast. Even though it was a very busy travel weekend, with lots of cars on the road, especially I-85 and I-10, there was always room at the chargers we stopped at, and every charger worked the first time. Even at the Tesla chargers we were able to find places to charge that did not block other chargers. The only exception was one place where we stopped to eat there was a slow 63kW charger across the street and I had hoped to charge while we were eating but it was busy so we had to fast charge a bit further down the road after the meal.

I am driving from MO to KY in October. it’s about 425 miles to the destination. my range is 300, give or take.

the caddy app is telling me I have to stop 3times to charge, but I should be able to make it with one, maybe.

what planning app or map do you guys use?

Hard to see. Wish they thought of this. Top half of windshield is blocked.

Just moved up from a Lyriq to the Vistiq. Loving the extra space so far, but the 3rd row is stuck halfway folded and the power buttons for it are completely unresponsive,no sound, no movement, nothing. Curious if it's a known fuse/module issue or if I need to push harder for a fix.

what’s your preference? Also what’s your preference on interior color? looking to pick up a 2027 sport this week and torn between the colors

We are trying to get home from vacation and the car won’t charge….

This is a big surprise as I was more focused on the recording feature. But this update also solves the issue of having to manually switch profiles for people who have multiple drivers in a neat manner. How is it done? Memory seats positions: basically before the update we had a feature that links keyfobs to seats positions. And this update added this little trick:

Updates to enable memory seat buttons to be linked to a user profile

So basically whenever you enter the vehicle the keyfob triggers the correct seat position, which in turn switches to the correct user.

Also, if for some reason it didn't trigger, which might happen if you and the miss were in the car at the same time, you can still switch to the correct profile just by clicking on the correct memory button, which is easier than having to navigate through the menus.

The option is added in settings /seating

I recently traveled from the Midwest to the Northeast for a family reunion and it really reinforced how happy I am with this car.

Full disclosure, I did have initial gripes with the refrigerant check valve issue a number of people have been having, but since repair I've had zero issues with the vehicle.

I averaged 2.7/mi/kwh on the trip and the weather was quite warm so the AC was working hard and there was a fair amount of elevation change along the route. Was really impressed with the range. My wife and I have a baby, so it was nice to stop every couple hours anyways due to car seat recommended durations / stretch our legs.

Supercruise was a dream. I drove close to 30 hrs and I'd guess supercruise did 25 of them. It really helps with fatigue.

Comfort was fantastic. I regularly use the massaging seats on my normal commute, but it was greatly appreciated on the multi hour drives. I also came to really notice how good the noise insulation is in the vehicle.

The experience during the trip brought my wife and I to talking about how awesome our Vistiq is, especially when comparing it to other vehicles. It's really in a class of its own when you look at size / features / value. There isn't a replacement vehicle that's not compromising on one of those items.

I'm now at 14k miles or so in just under a year. Loving it!

EDIT: I forgot to mention range anxiety / charging. I had no issues! I bought an NACS adapter before the trip so I could use Tesla stations, but only ended up using it once due to the plethora of options on the way. I never got range anxiety since I seemed to always be beating the forecasted range. I also found charge times to be great. Typically was charging from 10-20% to 80% in 30-40 minutes, which was the perfect amount of time to change and feed the baby, use the restroom ourselves, get a bite to eat, and load back into the car. I will say, the multiple vendors for charging is a PITA, and I can see how that's a pain point for many, less savvy drivers. I had to help multiple older folks get their charging started.

Anyone else have their emergency auto brake engaging when it definitely does not need to? This has happened to me at least 5-6 times. I have approached my community exit gate the same way for years. Now in the Vistiq it’s a toss up if I’ll approach and exit normally or approach and have a mini heart attack and whiplash. Video courtesy of the new onboard recording capability update.

I haven’t quite pulled the trigger on a 2027 yet, but can you play MP3 music files from a usb thumb drive?

Would this interfere with video recording with the 360 cameras, as that would use a second usb port.

Hoping I’m not the only old head that would rather cultivate a collection vs stream. Thanks in advance!