Starting and stopping preconditioning

Updated 2020-03-19

Preconditioning heats or cools the passenger compartment before driving. Preconditioning can be started in the center display or from a cellular phone.

Starting and stopping from the vehicle

P5-1646-S90H/V90H/XC90H–Climate–Button preconditioning — Preconditioning button in the Parking climate tab in Climate view.

Open Climate view in the center display.

Select the Parking climate tab.

P5-1646-S90H/V90H/XC90H–Climate–Checkboxes seat/steering wheel heat preconditioning — Window for seat/steering wheel heating in the Parking climate tab in Climate view.

Tap the boxes to select if seat/steering wheel heating should be activated along with preconditioning.

Tap Preconditioning.

Preconditioning starts/stops and the button lights up/goes out.

Note

Preconditioning is only available when the car is connected to an electrical outlet. A charging post that is not always active, for example because of a timer, can cause loss of function for preconditioning.

If the car is not connected to an electrical socket it is still possible in a warm climate to achieve brief cooling of the passenger compartment by direct starting preconditioning.

Note

The vehicle doors and windows should be closed during preconditioning of the passenger compartment.

Starting from app*

A device with the Volvo On Call* app can be used to start preconditioning or check settings. Preconditioning heats or cools the passenger compartment (using the vehicle's air conditioning) to a comfortable temperature.

The passenger compartment can also be preconditioned using the Engine Remote Start (ERS)1 function using the Volvo On Call* app.