Recent content by fresnomiev

Hi all, Almost two months to the day of when I towed the iMiev to the Fresno dealer it is now back in my garage. And the eventual cause of the dash light going on and the car not starting? - the control unit for the E/V motor, just as Kenny suggested. I talked to the service guy for a while...

Thanks very much for all of that info. I'll see what I can get out of the dealer... Kenny, I PM'd you; I'd like to talk to you directly so that I can talk more intelligently to the dealer. Hopefully we can shorten the learning curve for the dealer.... (even though it is supposed to be a iMiev...

I'm finally back after a long delay (on my part and on the dealer's). I tried calling the service guy I had been talking with regarding my iMiev and found out that he.... left the dealership for the Toyota service down the road. Fortunately they do seem to keep records of things and the new...

I'll tell em again. The dealer seems to prefer to spends hundreds if not thousands of dollars chasing down ratholes.

O.k. so now it has been almost two months that the iMiev is at the dealer's shop. I was swamped with work and also with a death in the family so I have not had time to follow up very much. But I called the service guy today; surprisingly he said that the charger arrived yesterday and they put...

Almost three weeks later and it appears I am now just at the start of this journey! I got a call a few days ago from the Fresno Mitsubishi service desk - they said that they finally found the problem. They said that in going back and forth with the national Mitsu center they have determined...

Interesting. I just spoke to the service manager and he says that now, two days after they got the car, they still don't know what is wrong. They are contacting Mitsubishi headquarters to ask them... ? He says they have not seen this error before (he didn't tell me the error number or name)...

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll wait and see what they say at the dealer. I did not notice anything different about the main battery performance that would suggest a problem - it started at 72 miles to empty and was down to about 40 at the end of a regular day of errands/driving. When I...

Hi all, we've had our 2012 iMiev for almost three years and have loved it. We were out of the country for a few weeks and when we came back the 12v battery was low and could not 'start' the car - it would not go to 'ready'. I used a trickle charger to charge up the 12v battery. I then put on...

A friend in town just got a Miev with the USB plug. When I have a chance I thought I'd take a look at his connection to the stereo and see if it is something I can replicate a bit cheaper. I'm out of the country at the moment so it will be two or three weeks before I can get to it... Ken

Hmm. That looks possible. The description says: "The Mit-3.5m allows you to input auxiliary audio to play through the factory Mitsibishi radio's auxiliary input Measuring approximately 6' long the Mit-3.5M has a 3 terminal connection cable that connects to the 14-pin or 22-pin conector...

I'm also looking at a cheap way (not a $120 cable!) to add an aux in (not simply a USB connection) for mp3/ipod audio input to the standard am/fm/cd/mp3 unit. The picture from aarond12 of the back of the unit is very helpful (any luck with a female USB?) Seems to me that if we can find a fit...

Though I can hardly believe it, I will hopefully pay $8000, after all discounts and federal, state, and valley rebates for my 2012 Miev SE. Tim Yopp at Ecklaus Auto in Clovis, Ca (a fleet dealer) gave me a $10,000 discount on the $30,500 list price. I paid him $20,500, including all taxes and...

Thanks Don, good reminder that Mitsubishi has modified the 'standard' Level 2 unit down to 110V for the U.S. market. We're just trying to bring it back to that standard with the EVSE upgrade!

After reading through these responses it is still unclear to me if the EVSE upgrade would definitely be a 'no-no' from a warranty perspective. I'm referring to whether Mitsubishi could/would know that you were using the EVSE upgrade to charge your car rather than an 'approved' level 2 charging...