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I think you may be over-thinking this and taking yourself off into all sorts of dead-end rabbit holes. You *must* get a reliable DTC scanning setup working - I recommend Android Hobdrive and OBDLink LX as a minimum. For what it's worth, *every single time* (must be at least a dozen times now...

I'm inclined to think that the only purpose the cross-members serve is to provide something for the plastic underpan to attach to. Having had a battery off 2 clones so far, the brackets that attach to the sides of the battery box and thence to the 'chassis' look entirely self supporting.

👍 Friend is away for a while. More upon his return...

I'll ask Friend to give that a go ...

Thank you: "Maybe it’s the brake vacuum pump that’s draining your 12Vaux and blew a fusable link somewhere between the OBC and the battery?" Not, as the vacuum pump worked for a while without fixing any fuses before stopping again - tho I take your point re the possibility of it draining the 12V...

Hi Kiev, Thanks, but as per Post#1 (and the thread title!), it does now run and AC charge (which was fixed apparently by replacing Fuse 13 in the cabin, as you say - interior lights also - we have not yet tried DC charging) - it's just the 12V battery charging that is missing and we still have...

An update: 1/ New 12V battery makes no difference (tho I have forgotten to tell him to clear the DTCs in case it makes a difference...) 2/ He has opened up the OBC... Nothing obvious... I have suggested checking both visible fuses... 3/ Anything else he can have a look at? MW

The only alu I've ever consciously come across on and I move (or clone) of the cill covers/trim and maybe one or two other trim bits.

Yes, even under a foot flat to floor there was very little cell voltage variation, <10mV... My friend reports: "The battery voltage was reading correctly. It never showed 14v. And dipped down to 11.4v with the coolant circulating. I had to put my battery pack on to keep it going"... 12V battery...

Having recently gone through all this (OBDLink LX and Hobdrive on an old Android tablet), the Hobdrive you first download is a trial version which just has generic data on the various screens. As MickeyS70 says, you must pay for the full app to get anything useful out of Hobdrive. On my...

Thank you. 1/ Where can you download it, pls, 'sketchily' or no...? 2/ What was your previous ODB dongle?

Hi MickeyS70... Thank you for your help. Forgive me but I assumed the voltage Hobdrive provides (CM Voltage) was the 12V battery voltage...? We had discussed replacing the 12V battery and I think that would be sensible (especially given how finicketry the clones can be if that battery is...

Hello, all. I got a petrol-head friend to buy an 80k miles non-functional i-MiEV a few weeks back here in the UK. It was just up the road from him (500 miles away from me!) and he has expressed an interest in 'getting into EVs' for years so this seemed like a golden opportunity. He won it on...

I thought OVMS had gone years ago! I had it in 2014 when I bought my first clone (iOn). Tesla's 'Valet Mode' has nothing to do with self-driving. It just permits the owner to set a limit on top speed (mainly)... Pretty much all of what you mention would be possible in theory - it would just...

Seriously?!! 1/ Where are you? 2/ What year was your car made 3/ How quickly do you want to charge it? We are not all psychic, you know!!

OP: My understanding is that it was only the 'pre-production' i-MiEVs that came to the UK *at the latest* in 2010 that have 'dumb' mains AC charging, ie the UK mains charging cable that came with the car has no active electronics in it at all, just a pair of resistors and a microswitch in the...

If you are going to go the trouble of opening the HV box (defo do-able, DIY, but *much easier if you have a proper vehicle lift), for the cost of a replacement cell, I'd just replace it. Just test the HV battery first without putting it fully back in the car to check the fix has worked. You...

This plot really *does* look like a CMU (ie BMS) fault. What is the likelihood that 2 adjacent cells will have voltages one way over the norm Vs one way under the norm where the +ve and -ve difference is nigh-on identical?!

Hi, Not sure what your reason for posting was exactly but I drove a 2012 iOn with about 40k mikes on it from near Hertford to Oban 500 miles) a few years back / 3 days and 13 charging stops (inc 2 overnight 100% charges). I had also previously taken it on several 200-300 mile trips and it was...