It's already been corrected, but I had my first real issue with my Volt last week and forgot to post.
I was leaving a buddies house, turned the car on and got ready to take off. I happened to glance down and see that the dash was displaying a message saying "Ice possible, drive with care". Well... it's early September. That can't be, can it? I glance over at the center display where the outside temp is displayed, and it was in Celsius!
At this point, I looked back at the dash and saw that there were LOTS of other warnings coming up, including warnings for things my car doesn't even have: "Service Park Assist" being one. I also noticed that the speedo had switched to metric as well, and the battery meter was showing 0 miles even though I knew I had at least half charge remaining. The car seemed fine, other than the warning messages and newly-minted metric status. I also noticed that at first power on, the message "Program Cluster" would appear briefly. All very strange, and completely random.
I drove home and to work the next day just fine. No issues, it still charged up fine and drove fine. The next day, I disconnected the 12 volt battery and tested it with an old school load tester, it came back better than fine. Often, electrical glitches on these are attributed to a weak 12v battery not being able to power the modules at startup. After reconnecting the battery, everything went back to normal. I had to set the clock, of course, but otherwise it's been fine.
I'm sure I'll never be able to find out why this happened, I just take it as a glitch. The only thing that annoys me is that I had been been using "TRIP B" to track my lifetime miles driven and MPG, and "TRIP A" to track tank-to-tank mileage and MPG. Well, disconnecting the battery cleared my trip meters. ARGH!!
I was leaving a buddies house, turned the car on and got ready to take off. I happened to glance down and see that the dash was displaying a message saying "Ice possible, drive with care". Well... it's early September. That can't be, can it? I glance over at the center display where the outside temp is displayed, and it was in Celsius!
At this point, I looked back at the dash and saw that there were LOTS of other warnings coming up, including warnings for things my car doesn't even have: "Service Park Assist" being one. I also noticed that the speedo had switched to metric as well, and the battery meter was showing 0 miles even though I knew I had at least half charge remaining. The car seemed fine, other than the warning messages and newly-minted metric status. I also noticed that at first power on, the message "Program Cluster" would appear briefly. All very strange, and completely random.
I drove home and to work the next day just fine. No issues, it still charged up fine and drove fine. The next day, I disconnected the 12 volt battery and tested it with an old school load tester, it came back better than fine. Often, electrical glitches on these are attributed to a weak 12v battery not being able to power the modules at startup. After reconnecting the battery, everything went back to normal. I had to set the clock, of course, but otherwise it's been fine.
I'm sure I'll never be able to find out why this happened, I just take it as a glitch. The only thing that annoys me is that I had been been using "TRIP B" to track my lifetime miles driven and MPG, and "TRIP A" to track tank-to-tank mileage and MPG. Well, disconnecting the battery cleared my trip meters. ARGH!!
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