acensor
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In the last couple of weeks on two (or maybe three) occassions shortly after pulling out of the driveway I noticed that the two ASC yellow warning/status lights were on.
The one on the right with "off" below it normally should come on only when you manually deliberatly disable ASC.
I was, until then, unaware of the one on the left (which shows the same icon as the right-hand one).... and it apparently is a "something not right with ASC" light.
I turned the car off, restarted, and in each case the lights went out and didn't come back on. At least not until the next incident. In short, this has happened 3 time out of, say, 30 startups. So definitally falls into "intermittant."
The owners manual seems to say, regarding this,
"If you turn the car off and the problem resolves forget about it.
If you turn the car off and the lights either come right back on,
or come back on later, take it in for service."
Of course the car can be driven perfectly well without ASC,
but (a) SOMEday it could be important to have it working,
particularly if my wife finds herself at the edge of handling on some occassion,
and (b) I want this issue (and any more serious one that might be lurking behind it) resolved while under warrenty.
Speaking of potentially more serious issue that might be lurking in the electronics: On one occassion about two weeks ago I was backing out of the garage and by steering-wheel feel and within 10 feet of driving was 99.5% sure the power steering had not turned on. (In retrospect I should have driven it a bit longer to 100% confirm "yup, ain't no power steering.") I turned the car off, turned it on again, and powersteering was active as usual.
Other possibly relevant data item: The ASC off/on switch is working normally after restart. IIRR on the occassions when both ASC lights were on pushing and holding it either 4 seconds or quickly did nothing.
I have an appointment to bring it in to the Mitsu dealer service tommorow.
I'm a little nervous about having the dealer touch it as has been reported here Mitsu service folks are not always up on dealing with the MiEV.
They SHOULD be competant as about 5 of their own employees lease and drive MiEVs and they own two themselves (one as a customer shuttle car, and one as a parts pickup and delivery car.)
So my questions here are along these lines:
# Has anyone here encountered anything like this or heard of it?
# Any thoughts about alternative to try before letting the dealer put their scope and screwdrivers on the car?
# Anything you suggest saying to, or asking, the service techs?
(I thought of asking them if they could give me a battery status check while it's on the scope without charging me an arm and a leg.)
FWIW: We've owned the car for 1.5 years and have 7000 miles on it.
P.S., I phoned the Mitsu customer support phoned, and was a BIT surprised that the woman could not even confirm that this was clearly not normal behavior and said "sorry we have no technicians on this line." A bit surprised as on the only other time I called that line, when I had somehow switched my speedometer to Kilometers, I got a guy who was willing and able to walk me through a pretty convoluted proceedure for switching back to MPH.
The one on the right with "off" below it normally should come on only when you manually deliberatly disable ASC.
I was, until then, unaware of the one on the left (which shows the same icon as the right-hand one).... and it apparently is a "something not right with ASC" light.
I turned the car off, restarted, and in each case the lights went out and didn't come back on. At least not until the next incident. In short, this has happened 3 time out of, say, 30 startups. So definitally falls into "intermittant."
The owners manual seems to say, regarding this,
"If you turn the car off and the problem resolves forget about it.
If you turn the car off and the lights either come right back on,
or come back on later, take it in for service."
Of course the car can be driven perfectly well without ASC,
but (a) SOMEday it could be important to have it working,
particularly if my wife finds herself at the edge of handling on some occassion,
and (b) I want this issue (and any more serious one that might be lurking behind it) resolved while under warrenty.
Speaking of potentially more serious issue that might be lurking in the electronics: On one occassion about two weeks ago I was backing out of the garage and by steering-wheel feel and within 10 feet of driving was 99.5% sure the power steering had not turned on. (In retrospect I should have driven it a bit longer to 100% confirm "yup, ain't no power steering.") I turned the car off, turned it on again, and powersteering was active as usual.
Other possibly relevant data item: The ASC off/on switch is working normally after restart. IIRR on the occassions when both ASC lights were on pushing and holding it either 4 seconds or quickly did nothing.
I have an appointment to bring it in to the Mitsu dealer service tommorow.
I'm a little nervous about having the dealer touch it as has been reported here Mitsu service folks are not always up on dealing with the MiEV.
They SHOULD be competant as about 5 of their own employees lease and drive MiEVs and they own two themselves (one as a customer shuttle car, and one as a parts pickup and delivery car.)
So my questions here are along these lines:
# Has anyone here encountered anything like this or heard of it?
# Any thoughts about alternative to try before letting the dealer put their scope and screwdrivers on the car?
# Anything you suggest saying to, or asking, the service techs?
(I thought of asking them if they could give me a battery status check while it's on the scope without charging me an arm and a leg.)
FWIW: We've owned the car for 1.5 years and have 7000 miles on it.
P.S., I phoned the Mitsu customer support phoned, and was a BIT surprised that the woman could not even confirm that this was clearly not normal behavior and said "sorry we have no technicians on this line." A bit surprised as on the only other time I called that line, when I had somehow switched my speedometer to Kilometers, I got a guy who was willing and able to walk me through a pretty convoluted proceedure for switching back to MPH.
