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    Dolly towing a Chevy Bolt

    True, but you do want to take precautions that it doesn’t rattle around and accidentally hit the positive post whil traveling. That would be bad...
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    Dolly towing a Chevy Bolt

    I haven’t installed a quick disconnect yet. I just keep a 10mm box end wrench in my pocket to disconnect from the terminals. This summer when I’m traveling more, I’ll proba install a disconnect.
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    Dolly towing a Chevy Bolt

    No I've not heard anything more. Honestly I don't expect to really. GM (Chevy) isn't like a computer software company that sends out updates periodically, but rather like a computer hardware company and builds a device and you may never hear from them again. If I ever do hear from them, I...
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    Dolly towing a Chevy Bolt

    The only thing that I've heard back is Chevy saying that this is now a 'known issue' (others have had the problem as well) and that, until a fix is made available, disconnecting the ground wire from the 12-Volt battery terminal is the workaround. Using this workaround, we've not encountered any...
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    Dolly towing a Chevy Bolt

    Here's a video that I recorded of us trying to tow the Bolt w/o disconnecting the battery. Notice the car's brake lights flash when it auto-engages the parking brake: https://youtu.be/gRaWzZmO40E (Sorry for the terrible quality it was a hot Arizona day and we were just trying to get on the road!)
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    Dolly towing a Chevy Bolt

    The first time that I used the battery disconnect method to tow the car, when I reconnected the battery, I got all sorts of warning lights including the service car soon light. I immediately called the service center (don't want to do anything to void the warranty :D) and they suggested...
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    Dolly towing a Chevy Bolt

    For the past two weeks, my wife and I have been dolly towing our Chevy Bolt behind our motorhome on a Roadmaster tow dolly. I must say, in our decade of full-time RV experience this trip has been absolutely the most ... interesting. :roll: :roll: :roll: First of all, we absolutely love our...
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