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I got my recall done a week ago on my 2017 (letter arrived in December). All of the replacement battery packs are 66 kW-h even for those of us that had 60 kW-h packs, so not only do we get a brand new battery but it's 10% bigger!

Same thing happened to me back in June and still has not been fixed. My idiot dealer blamed the battery and replaced it twice. The third time it happened, the finally bothered to try to diagnose it and determined the fuse block was bad. That was over a month ago and I still don't have a fixed...

I've had this happen but it has nothing to do with the rear view camera; it's really a process in the display unit freezing. I've had it happen with just the regular audio screen, as well as with the rear view display. When the bug occurs, music no longer plays (even if it's through the AUX...

I'd be a little upset if the new tax were only for EVs but it's not; the tax increase on both gas and electric cars is clearly designed to be similar. I drive 20k miles per year and if I had a 35 mpg gas car I'd pay $106/year extra. With the EV I'd pay $100/year extra. Basically the same.

Bicycles do not have a pedestrian warning sound and they move faster than 14 mph. Keep that in mind before talking about dead pedestrians; we are dealing with extremely low speeds here, and also the car is not quiet and is really easy to hear when it's using the motor or the regeneration.

No it's not. That is not the pedestrian warning sound and in fact is not on the base Bolt at all. My car has no external sensors whatsoever. The pedestrian warning sound that this thread is about is a sound that plays continuously the entire time you are not in Park or Neutral and are moving at...

I think it's a nice orange and is a more unique color, very easy to find in parking lots. But also of course it just looks good. What I hate are all of the silver cars that are everywhere. So bland.

The manual has a fuse diagram and the relevant fuse is labelled in it. It's easy to find; it's adjacent to two empty fuse slots.

It actually does display 0.5 kW; when moving give it a tiny bit of "gas" and you can get it to show 0.5 kW of regen or 0.5 kW of draw. But after that it rounds to the nearest kW. However when idle I suspect it is programmed to just show 1 kW whenever draw is < 1.5 kW because it says 1 kW even...

Yes it does. You click a "Temporary Override" tab, then click "Charge Immediately" and that's it.

I am sure because that's what the owner's manual states. You have to plug the car in to have the battery temperature regulated, when the car is off.

No, the entire door speaker install only took them about an hour. I had walk off to go to a restaurant and when I got back it was already finished. But that install was really simply, you take off the inner door panels and replace the existing speakers with the new ones. No new wiring or...

The BMS is *not* active when the car is not plugged in. This is why the instruction manual says to plug the car in when parking for an extended period in below freezing temperatures, or above 90 degree temperatures; the thermal management system needs to run to keep the battery at a healthy...

Of course I kept the same head unit! There is literally no way to visually tell that the car has an aftermarket sound system without pulling things apart; it's a factory look.

I have 1300 miles on my car and the seats have been perfectly fine. Regarding the suspension, I think it's plenty soft as it is and would definitely not want it any softer because then it would be even be worse in turns. Right now it's nowhere near as sporty as my previous car, a diesel Golf...