Turtle coming up before zero

Hello!

Hope for helpful advice...
I have 2 Mievs of 2012 year. First miev goes beautifully to the first stick, at least there was a 4km on panel and its continued to go. The second miev stops at 13-27km, a turtle appears, passes 20-100m and the acum sign is sunk and stands.
It all began with the fact that the first time she got up so much on the 5km of the remnant and now she got to the point where she stops at 20km (One race forgot to turn off the light bulb in the cabin at night, then changed from 15km stops to 20-25km on panel). Both cars were bought from state officials at auction. In our country is no electro car specialists , what to say about battery diagnostics... The official
mitsubishi representative offered 6,000 euros for repairs. Price of the car costs less. P.S front small battery is changed for new one, still same problem.
Maybe someone had a similar problem and solved it in a more budgetary way.


Best regards, Kris.

Lots of instances of this happening here lately - Search for 'turtle' and you can read many of them

I had a similar problem with one of my cars

http://myimiev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4581&p=40819&hilit=turtle#p40819

Don

Kristian, welcome to the forum and so sorry to hear about your situation.

Your battery has degraded to the point where the battery management system is protecting what is left of the battery by actuating 'turtle' despite there still appearing to be plenty of charge left.

As indicated by Don on the link he provided, the easiest way of determining the condition of your main battery is to obtain a genuine OBDLink LX or MX or MX+ bluetooth adapter for the car's OBDII port and couple it with one of a number of apps (look around this website); for example, the Android app 'CaniOn', which is free, can show you the condition of each of the 88 cells within your battery and can also tell you the overall Ah capacity of the main battery.

Unfortunately, Mitsubishi is not being helpful and only offers a replacement battery pack which, as you noted, costs more than the car itself.

A number of people have successfully replaced individual cells within the battery pack, which can prolong the life of the car for a while. This is useful if one or two cells have gone seriously bad while the rest are still usable. This is not easy and should only be attempted by someone familiar with dealing with high voltages.

The best alternative seems to be to find a wrecked i-MiEV with a usable battery pack and exchange the battery pack completely.

I'm afraid that, as our older and high-mileage i-MiEV batteries are nearing the end of their lives, keeping them going will become a labor- and $-intensive proposition.

Where are you located, as there may be other i-MiEV owners in your country who may be able to help?
http://myimiev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3196

Wish you all the best.