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    Major EV Drive Components Replacement & Costs

    Since insurance companies are so quick to total our little cars. One rarely exercised option we all have if we have a car totaled by the insurance company is to pay the salvage fee and retain ownership of the wrecked vehicle. It's generally really inexpensive to do this with an insurance...
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    Who says the i-miev is cheap to operate?

    First scheduled maintenance completed on one car. Transmission service - fluid change $118.00 plus tax at the dealer. In my garage - $12.88 for the real McCoy Mitsu fluid. Took 1/2 hour including pics and a PDF for the records (just in case). Super easy for anyone who can turn a wrench IMO...
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    Control for ventilation to feet/face/screen

    OK, so on the drivers side of the ventilation unit mine has three actuators and dampers the one closest to the drivers seat opens the HVAC up to the battery pack. Not sure if one without DCQC would have it? Then toward the front of the car right above the accelerator is the one that bypasses the...
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    Control for ventilation to feet/face/screen

    I do know that the servo motor for the damper you are referring to does have position sensing. Experimenting, I selected what I wanted. Directing the power of the remote defrost setting mostly to the floor for preheating. Once it was directed where I wanted with the dash selections I disabled...
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    High Mileage - 2014 Miev - Level 3 winter battery charging time

    Thanks very much for that Sandange!! I watched the videos and it appears that the the cold weather low and high mileage Q3 charge profiles were almost identical in character. Would you agree? If so, that is pretty reasuring! Aerowhatt
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    New owner/member

    I was thinking about this and wondering "why don't I feel the same way?". I never paid attention before but I never lift my heel to switch from accelerator to brake pedal or vice-versa. I just rotate my foot and the heel stays grounded in the same place the whole time. That gives me the same...
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    New owner/member

    It just is true. When I got the car I tried every mode for best overall efficiency. I drive the same way I always have. Accelerate briskly, look way down the road so that I know when to start slowing and decelerate as gently as practical with traffic etc. I've been rear ended 3 times over the...
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    New owner/member

    Right . . . So Mitsu obviously made regen deceleration in D right in the ballpark of ICE engine compression hold back through an automatic in legacy vehicles (smart - very different car - make it "feel" normal instead of markedly different). So drivers are use to a car in front of them slowing...
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    New owner/member

    Yes I agree! something that I did not like about the car either. I didn't get much interest from the forum on a mod. So I changed my driving habits instead. I decided the best way to do the brake light mod for regen was to use a current sensing coil (at the inverter), then drive a relay to power...
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    I installed a kitchen in my electric car

    I love how the mini fridge matches the car :) Aerowhatt
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    Major EV Drive Components Replacement & Costs

    I looked at the EV purchases like I would any market investment. First, any investment that (potentially) pays off pretty well has risk of equity loss. So, never borrow money to make such an investment. That said, because of the savings involved in driving electric. Even with a "ridiculous to...
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    Hyundai Kona EV

    Really? long range battery option is pushing 300 miles (470 km) I can't really imagine wanting to drive farther than that in one day. Funny how the more things change the more they stay the same. Back in 1985 I bought a new Jeep pickup truck. Salesman kept trying to get me to upgrade to the...
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    Transaxle Oil

    If one were at all concerned about Warranty issues down the road :). I got the real deal - Mitsubishi DiaQueen SPIII SP3 Transmission Fluid. I got two of them through Amazon for $12.88 each shipped free from White Bear Mitsubishi online parts, in Minnesota. Coincidentally this is the same...
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    Seized Gearbox

    Interesting and tragic! I'm guessing turtle came on because the drive was going through power like crazy just to keep it rolling. All that heat making steam and smoke was converted traction battery power. If it is a lubrication issue, it wouldn't leave much of a mess parked on dirt or...
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    I have a secret - odometer display mystery

    Something that may factor in here? I've seen these cars sold "used" with very few miles. A look at the cars history shows that the dealer (unable to sell the car titled it and took the tax rebate). Instant used car with only some test drive miles on it. The service indicators are hinky. Wife's...
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    Anyone ever figured out how the Heating controls work ?

    I stumbled across this updated version of the technical review of the heating unit: https://www.mhi.com/company/technology/review/Vol.54No.2/abstracte-54-2-57.html Perhaps this (below) copied from another thread will help with using the heater efficiently; Doing hiking trips to the mountains...
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    Upgrading Heating System - Independent Battery Source

    JoeS wrote: I just had all the recalls done on my two i-MiEVs over the last couple of days (including vacuum pump replacement) and I hope the squishy brake pedal is just temporary... Yeah dealers, sheesh, seems like they screw up more than they fix! They were pushing me hard to change the...
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    measuring capacity loss through CanIon

    Perhaps just give it some time. I know that when I plugged my wife's "i" into the canion app it did not register AH for hours if not a day or more. If memory serves canion was monitoring a charge cycle when it popped up. Looks to me like it's canion that stores the history etc. So from what I...
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    Upgrading Heating System - Independent Battery Source

    Bump! So Getting back to this project. I have had all of the parts etc. and a completed design for months. But once we got the recall notice on the airbags I put off going forward. Unlike some of my other mods to the car which are, for all practical purposes, invisible. This one will be obvious...
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    Chains

    A really good thing to carry in the winter is a gardening shovel/trowel (because it's small) and a gallon sized zip lock bag full of dry sand, or cat litter, or fine-ish landscape gravel. Between that and the disabling of the traction control (if needed) will get you out of just about any...
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