The Fiat 500e that I drive has two coolant pumps, each about $600 or more from the dealer. If you put in a $40 pump from another source, the monitor lead is not there. Turtle mode some days, service electric vehicle components warning not able to be cleared. Trailering to the dealer soon.
On Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 2:14 PM fred via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > My wife and I are working out the gremlins in one of our two 2013 Rav4EVs. > The charger is going to be replaced soon (Thanksgiving?) but the traction > coolant pump is the real gremlin. Do you know how stressed out one's spouse > can get when the System Warning appears on the dash? Words fail me. As an > aside, our long-gone Subaru station wagon had an ECS light, akin to the > "check engine" light on many ICE vehicles. We determined later that it > stands for "Excite Crazy Spouse." > I digress. > Today, her trip to work ended with turtle mode. The pump has been > diagnosed six ways to Sunday and a replacement is going to arrive Saturday, > fingers crossed. The pump isn't failing, but the sensors within are > reporting that it is or that it has. > She stopped the vehicle on a four lane roadway, raised median, no > shoulders, raised curbs on all sides. Local deputy dawg appeared while we > were engaging in cellular communications. With a "red and blues" escort, > she made it to the safe haven of the airport off-site cell phone lot > awaiting my arrival. > She told me later that the officer suggested that she have the fuel > filter, fuel pump and air filter checked for damage from the hurricane. A > small chuckle. The Rav4EV might as well be invisible on the road as a > "real" electric vehicle. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20221011/3cca3fbb/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20221011/1252aad6/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
