cometboy
Member
One of the four iMiev’s we have has developed an intermittent fault.
It’s a 2012/3 Australian delivered model that is used only 8 months a year. On four occasions over the past year the Amber Exclamation Mark warning light comes on the dash (the one through the little amber car symbol) and this is followed by the turtle when you try to drive the vehicle. The fault occurs with the traction battery fully charged (or close) and in a wide variety of temperature. Until the last occurrence, the fault could be corrected by restarting the car. It did appear moving the gear selectors up and down a few time helped but this might be our imagination.
Anyway the fault could not be cleared the other day and the only way I could clear the condition was to disconnect the Aux Battery. As the vehicle was made in 2012 and sat for a couple of years before we purchased it new, I was happy to replace the battery. BTW, the battery is now connected to a solar trickle charger when stored for 4 months each year and the traction pack left at 80%.
The dealers are absolutely useless in our part of Australia but we have had no other issues other than tire replacement. I have a long background in DIY Ev’s so happy to deal with longer term issues. I also use caniOn to monitor the life of the pack but as a diagnostic tool for the other issues it is not much help.
So three questions….
1 - Has anyone else experienced a similar issue?
2 – Does anyone know of a scan tool (my standard OBDII scanners don’t work on the I’s) that could helpful for these issues?
3 – Is there a “Hard Reset” of some sort somewhere I haven’t found? Doesn’t seem to shown in the service manual?? Maybe the Mitsi Factory Scan tool clears and resets issues but can’t find that out!
Any tips appreciated.
Also, no faults have occurred after the Aux Battery replacement.
Cheers
Bruce
Update: Just bench testing the old original 34B19L battery and at this stage of testing it does appear to not be holding a charge very well…..
It’s a 2012/3 Australian delivered model that is used only 8 months a year. On four occasions over the past year the Amber Exclamation Mark warning light comes on the dash (the one through the little amber car symbol) and this is followed by the turtle when you try to drive the vehicle. The fault occurs with the traction battery fully charged (or close) and in a wide variety of temperature. Until the last occurrence, the fault could be corrected by restarting the car. It did appear moving the gear selectors up and down a few time helped but this might be our imagination.
Anyway the fault could not be cleared the other day and the only way I could clear the condition was to disconnect the Aux Battery. As the vehicle was made in 2012 and sat for a couple of years before we purchased it new, I was happy to replace the battery. BTW, the battery is now connected to a solar trickle charger when stored for 4 months each year and the traction pack left at 80%.
The dealers are absolutely useless in our part of Australia but we have had no other issues other than tire replacement. I have a long background in DIY Ev’s so happy to deal with longer term issues. I also use caniOn to monitor the life of the pack but as a diagnostic tool for the other issues it is not much help.
So three questions….
1 - Has anyone else experienced a similar issue?
2 – Does anyone know of a scan tool (my standard OBDII scanners don’t work on the I’s) that could helpful for these issues?
3 – Is there a “Hard Reset” of some sort somewhere I haven’t found? Doesn’t seem to shown in the service manual?? Maybe the Mitsi Factory Scan tool clears and resets issues but can’t find that out!
Any tips appreciated.
Also, no faults have occurred after the Aux Battery replacement.
Cheers
Bruce
Update: Just bench testing the old original 34B19L battery and at this stage of testing it does appear to not be holding a charge very well…..