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Try disconnecting the 12v, then reconnect, make the car Ready (requires two power button pushes), hold the switch down for a couple seconds, then...
Well, if it is a whine that is tied to road speed rather than engine speed, then it will be something between the transaxle and the wheels. Wheel...
Roll the window halfway down, then roll it up and hold the switch in the up position for a couple seconds. This resets the auto down/up feature.
I recently worked on a 2006 with 140K miles that presented with the following symptoms: The hybrid battery was at 1 bar; the ICE would not start;...
Close up of sun gear and a pinion gear. Note how chewed up they are.
Sun, planetary carrier+pinions, and ring gear, along with the offending shim that was floating loose in the case.
This is not typical. NiMH will self discharge eventually to the point where there is not sufficient EMF to spin the ICE fast enough for ignition....
Sheri, go ahead and replace that battery with one from a salvage yard. Look on Car-Part.com--Used Auto Parts Market for one at a yard near you....
tkc, if you were local, I have a good trans sitting in the shop just waiting for a new home. Your dealership must be planning to replace the...
One thing I should have asked, you have a dual channel charger? Because these things heat up, I never charge adjacent modules at the same time, I...
Fully charged voltage is >9V. Since these tend to heat up and swell, the -dV/dt peak can be difficult for the charger to detect and the module...
Government is not good at making economic decisions. They only know that R&D expenditures in sum have made the US into the world's only...
Go get one from a junkyard. Look for 2008 and newer. Car-Part.com--Used Auto Parts Market.
First off, you should leave the module in the battery carrier frame -- the four rods and two plastic ends. Have everything tight, just take off...
And yet, the Volt is a pretty decent car. If you have a problem in general with GM, that's fine, and skepticism about Volt reliability is fine...
Consider this anecdote from a new Prius C driver, and kudos to him because he had been driving a Tundra crew cab at 15mpg:
The inverter has a DC converter which performs the function of the alternator. It is powered by the hybrid battery. The sequence of events is a...
If you hear the fan running in the back seat, it is the hybrid battery. Otherwise, there's no way to tell without getting the codes read.
95% likely that it is your inverter cooling pump aka hybrid water pump. They are one in the same. It is somewhat of a miracle that it lasted...
That's actually a very good point, you need to plan on keeping this car for a long time and put a lot of miles on it. You'll take a bath on...
