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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 eBay for £500! Original assessment was: dash comes on with key but no 'ready' light, 'high voltage' warning on (yellow !+car), no 12V dc-dc conversion nor AC charging - DC charging not tried. Also interior lights not working and although the radio appeared to have power, there was no sound.
The car had been sitting around for quite some time, apparently, maybe a year or more. SOC was around 40% from dash.
Anyway, I happened to visit him shortly after he purchased it and we got Hobdrive working from him with his android phone and a OBDLink LX.
Original DTCs:
As you can see, the P1A15 error is present along with a few others including a seised brake vacuum pump. So, we dealt with the P1A15 first as I am quite familiar with it (I've done 2 resistor-bodge repairs already on different clones). That was successful and the car would then drive OK but still no AC charging and no dc-dc converting to charge the 12V aux battery, etc...
So, the P0A09 DTC led us to investigate the interior light issue and fuse 13 (below steering wheel fuse box) was found to be blown. After replacement:
So, now the car AC charges...
15 mins later...
... but still no dc-dc conversion to charge the 12V battery.
Anyone got any thoughts?
MW
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 eBay for £500! Original assessment was: dash comes on with key but no 'ready' light, 'high voltage' warning on (yellow !+car), no 12V dc-dc conversion nor AC charging - DC charging not tried. Also interior lights not working and although the radio appeared to have power, there was no sound.
The car had been sitting around for quite some time, apparently, maybe a year or more. SOC was around 40% from dash.
Anyway, I happened to visit him shortly after he purchased it and we got Hobdrive working from him with his android phone and a OBDLink LX.
Original DTCs:
As you can see, the P1A15 error is present along with a few others including a seised brake vacuum pump. So, we dealt with the P1A15 first as I am quite familiar with it (I've done 2 resistor-bodge repairs already on different clones). That was successful and the car would then drive OK but still no AC charging and no dc-dc converting to charge the 12V aux battery, etc...
So, the P0A09 DTC led us to investigate the interior light issue and fuse 13 (below steering wheel fuse box) was found to be blown. After replacement:
So, now the car AC charges...
15 mins later...
... but still no dc-dc conversion to charge the 12V battery.
Anyone got any thoughts?
MW