Help me out here.

Haha. Appreciate the input.

 

Welp guys… when I’m wrong, I’m wrong. So here I am to eat some crow.

thank you to Mr Guy Mann for reminding me to check the freeze frame data. Block 7 down to 12.20 set the code off again. When I watch it live it looks fine, but clearly it’s bad.

 

I’m not quite sure yet. The “thrifty” (okay cheap) side of me wants to locate a single block and swap it out. Haha.

a buddy does this kinda stuff for a living, so he’ll make me a pretty good deal to combine mine with a good core and rebuild it. Or I can hunt for a used battery from a newer car.

I really really want a new Prime. I can’t really afford it for another year or so. I also don’t want to sell someone an absolute turd of a car. I love this car, it’s like family to me. So, I’ll have to think on it a bit.

 

I appreciate that. I got so tired of working for scummy dealerships, I started my own from 2014-2020. It was amazing. The last year year ran me out of capital.

 

Anyone heard of Exclusively Hybrid? They cell (see what I did there? Lol) single blocks for $35 that have been reconditioned and have a 6 month warranty.

what I’m thinking is swap the bad one for now, while I hunt for a decent 4th gen NiMH battery. Once I locate a battery I’ll swap all my packs out.

 

Alright guys.. a few weeks of wack a mole and I’m back. Lol.

I’m still getting low voltage from block 7… but I’ve swapped my best cells into block 7. Have put the new replacement cells in block 14.

seems obvious that the actual cells aren’t the problem. All the connections from the sensors and buss bars are clean. Looked like the pins at the ecu were good and like new. ECU itself maybe?

 

100%. I’ve numbered them 1,1, 2, 2, 3,3 etc.. with block 14 being closest to fan, sensors etc. I fairly certain that’s how they are ordered on a Gen 3. But now you’ve ve got me MF’ing myself for not also swapping block 8 just in case.

 

watching the confidence fade from the start of my prior post has had me laughing all day. Better than being mad I guess. Yes, I found one of your posts in a thread saying that.

this makes the most sense for the issue I’m having. My other thought was to pull the cover and disconnect the sensor wire and see which block drops to zero volts.

 

Just wanted to say thanks. Car is running much much better. Sometimes it’s the simple things you overlook. I was scrolling looking for the post where I saw to count the other way and the poster commented a few posts later, that he messed up, it was the other way. Lol. I should have scrolled a bit further.

also, can confirm, Gen 3, block 1 starts on the negative side.