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Stan posted a video where he removed the Electric water heater from the car and swapped in a diesel one. In the video there is some information about adding some resistors on the water heater connector to get things working. Perhaps this will help you to figure out the problem...

One of the most interesting values in Canion that I use all the time is watt-hours/km and how much the HVAC system is taking. I would want to display that full time just to guage my driving. Don......

Hi Kenny, Thanks for the information. I'm also interested in what is going on with the CAN data on the car. I don't have any equipment to log CAN data but maybe one day when I retire and have lots of time on my hands I could start fooling around with it. I get the feeling it's time consuming to...

Hey kiev, From the procedure you posted it looks to me like the car is off and you plug in the mut 3 and select the capacity parameter on the mut 3 Does that mean perhaps that the capacity is not in the regular data update that is transmitted when the car is on ? Maybe the mut 3 sends a...

So I seem to have some time on my hands, When I read this post I thought maybe I should try this out. So I went and added some foam I had lying around to the rear area of the car and just like PV1 said if you lie on the foam towards the rear of the hatch and hang your feet over the front seat...

OMG, I am so jealous of you Joe....... i would love to do the same but alas used Model S's in Canada are pricey and importing a US one with the 1.3 exchange is also difficult. It will be great to hear your prespective on the Model S after owning an iMiev for so long. Congratz Don.....

Hey Ben, You can check the water temp in canion with the latest version. The diesel one goes up to 80 deg c. The control is not as good as the electric heat it bounces between 70-80 deg but its hotter then stock. I think you will find that a 1 litre tank is a little small. 2-3 liters would be...

Hey all, For the Heater problem I had on the weekend. I think it was a freeze up of the fuel line because the heater started fine in the driveway at -23 Deg C then it ran for awhile and quit. I noticed it on the highway. I tried to restart it many times but no go. When I got home I put it in...

It has been a brutally cold weekend so far. -24 deg C. My diesel heater stopped working on the highway at 90 km/hr it started ok at home but stopped on the highway I was lucky that I was only going about 30 km round trip and the battery was full. I switched to electric heat to survive. It was...

Hey Sandy, After doing a few winter chademo charges i have noticed that the car will limit current to about 50 amps when the lowest cell temp is below a certain temp. I dont know the exact temp limit but at 15 deg c for the lowest cell the charger will run at 125 amps. I did one test witht the...

I found this report on the Imiev done in Manitoba. I think it's a good and fair report and deals with the range questions in the four seasons pretty well. http://blogs.rrc.ca/ar/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/iMiEV-2nd-year-report-final.pdf Admins: Please move this post to reference material if...

That is a first.. Bravo. I'm sure that works really well and would win the prize for most efficient method of windshield defrosting..... If I could find an electric defroster with clear conductors I would probably also do this. I believe it is already been done on things like the range rover...

Hey Ben, IN the winter: Very cold, short trip, iMiev -> no problem... Very cold, normal summer time length trip, iMiev -> cold feet,pain,window fog.... unhappiness..... Add heated insoles in your boots and it becomes: Very cold, normal summer time length trip, iMiev -> window fog.... some...

Hello all, Well temps have been well above average this winter in Montreal but it was -18 deg C overnight recently and I did a little test leaving my second car without the Diesel heater outside overnight to coldsoak. For the past 3 years I have been keeping my first iMiev in the garage during...

Hey Ben great adventure, The diesel heater would make life nicer in the winter and it is a fun project. Don't forget DVD's... they make long charging stops pass quicker, I always have a few of my favorites in the car. Don.....

Hey all, I also saw this review. If you watch it a couple of times you realize that he says a lot of good things about the car. But the things he doesn't like he deems completely unacceptable. He is under enthusiastic about the great points of the car (and he misses a few) and over...

To store or not to store that is the question..... Actually I am a fan of having a "Salt car" and a car that I pamper, and I have had a few over the years. THe last car that I kept in really good shape was a 2001 blue Honda civic. It was stored in the garage every year for 10 years while I...

Hey Don, I thought at least the early leafs had hot water heaters and even the newer ones that have a heat pump I believe have a second method to heat the car for temps below -10 deg C where Heat pumps kind of stop working. But I'm not a Leaf expert. In any case it would suck to have an airtop...

Thanks for the link Sandy, I knew someone would offer a fuel heater at one point. I do find it really expensive and it looks like the "airtop" heater which heats and circulates air. It about 2 KW which is worst then the OEM heater. Our iMiev water heater is 5 KW on high. I think if you...

I thought I would post some canion reading on coolant temp from the diesel and conventional heater. The CANION image first section is from the electric heat on highest temp, the Second section was from another day with similar outdoor temps (3 Deg C) using the diesel heater. It looks like the...