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I took these pics awhile back and just now am getting around to posting them,
Iv owned two G-1 manuals now and BOTH had this same problem, what I found is that the routing of the high voltage cable is actually "draped" over the sharp corner of the trans mount,,, On both vehicles the corner had vibrated/worn through the orange tape and actually through the protective casing,,,
because the casing is so structurally thick from it's internal diameter and external diameter the high voltage wires did not get "involved" with the trans mount corner, but both vehicles also had under 200,000 miles so who knows what could have happened should things have continued,
To me this falls into the category of "highly unlikely" but it also falls into the category of "catastrophic failure" if it ever did wear through both the casing and the high voltage wire sheathing,,,
I could see it raising holy hell as in probably blowing out the inverter and all computer components at the same time, let alone maybe even starting a fire...
I have no idea if the CVT's have the same routing...
but - for what it's worth - takes about 5 seconds to check your vehicle,,, so im thinking time well spent,,,
first pic shows the damage to the protective casing, you cannot see how deep the little edge got into the outer casing but trust me the corner was buried through the outside and right at the inside diameter and "fretting away"
the second pic shows the route I took - I just filed off the edge of the mount, you can do that on the car or just install a cut piece of heater hose then tape in place or something for more protection, IF you find you have the same problem let us know - who knows maybe I stumbled across two freak cars...
Iv owned two G-1 manuals now and BOTH had this same problem, what I found is that the routing of the high voltage cable is actually "draped" over the sharp corner of the trans mount,,, On both vehicles the corner had vibrated/worn through the orange tape and actually through the protective casing,,,
because the casing is so structurally thick from it's internal diameter and external diameter the high voltage wires did not get "involved" with the trans mount corner, but both vehicles also had under 200,000 miles so who knows what could have happened should things have continued,
To me this falls into the category of "highly unlikely" but it also falls into the category of "catastrophic failure" if it ever did wear through both the casing and the high voltage wire sheathing,,,
I could see it raising holy hell as in probably blowing out the inverter and all computer components at the same time, let alone maybe even starting a fire...
I have no idea if the CVT's have the same routing...
but - for what it's worth - takes about 5 seconds to check your vehicle,,, so im thinking time well spent,,,
first pic shows the damage to the protective casing, you cannot see how deep the little edge got into the outer casing but trust me the corner was buried through the outside and right at the inside diameter and "fretting away"
the second pic shows the route I took - I just filed off the edge of the mount, you can do that on the car or just install a cut piece of heater hose then tape in place or something for more protection, IF you find you have the same problem let us know - who knows maybe I stumbled across two freak cars...