Tilting Mirror In Reverse Timing Out?

[ProModMike]

Hello everyone. First post here. No stranger to trucks, GM trucks or anything with a motor, wheels or a barrel. Just a stranger to my 3 week old '15 Denali. Every other GM truck I've had that has the ability to tilt the mirrors in reverse has worked perfectly. However, this new truck tilts the pasenger mirror back up to the normal position while I'm still in reverse. Only stays tilted for about 30-45 seconds. That can't be right, can it? Thanks in advance and I look forward to any input and being an attribute to the forum in the future.

 

P.S. Dangerdick won't be the only one with a Magneride 7" lifted '15 Denali here in about 2 days . Installing the FTS kit and wheels/tires Friday.

[CounterMeasure]

Ok, glad its not only me that has had this happen.

 

I was backing into a specific space very cautiously, and midway through the reversing process, the mirrors automatically tilted back up while I was looking at the drivers mirror. As a software engineer myself, I attribute it to a GM software engineer never actually driving the truck he wrote the software for and not actually thinking through the scenarios.

 

If the software leaves the backup camera on the whole time the truck is in reverse, the mirrors should act the same damn way. It's called user experience consistency, GM! </rant>

[nadrojcote]

Mine does this as well, I just back up faster

[redwngr]

Apparently that's the way they want it to work now.

 

"Reverse Tilt Mirrors

If equipped with memory seats, the passenger and/or driver mirror tilts to a preselected position when the vehicle is in R (Reverse). This allows the curb to be seen when parallel parking.

The mirror(s) return to the original position when:

. The vehicle is shifted out of R (Reverse), or remains in R (Reverse) for about 30 seconds.

. The ignition is turned off.

. The vehicle is driven in R (Reverse) above a set speed.

To turn this feature on or off, see

Vehicle Personalization on

page 5-46."

[chuckl1218]

Not sure if the 2015 is exactly like the 2014, but on my 2014, they do time out after 20 or 30 seconds. There was a member who complained of this when backing his boat down a ramp at the lake. I tried it in my driveway...put it in reverse...camera on and mirrors tip down. After 20 or 30 seconds, mirrors tile back up on their own. I read somewhere that this is normal.

[calgator73]

Normal but stupid.

[ProModMike]

Well, I guess that answers that. That's really stupid. I wonder if they'll come out with a TSB/software update for these to change that.

[Isriam]

It probably will never be fixed/changed. They will bring out a new model in 2018 and it will have tilt mirrors that stay tilted, but then the reverse camera will time out after 30 seconds. Or something equally stupid. They always break something when they add new features. And to clear it up, I'm not saying the tilt mirrors are new, just that being a new style, their software engineers created more bugs than they could handle and they are now called "features".