I have found a way to make my battery level guage recaibrate consistently.
From the information on this site and ellsewhere, the battery guage isn't always a true indicator of actual battery level and every so often recalibrates itself. This recalibration seems always to be in the negative: it recognizes that it's registering more than actual battery power available and sets itself down to zero (but never the opposite).
If I travel about 30 miles or more along a fairly flat freeway (and not into any headwind) at constant freeway speeds, I'll get the battery guage up to full. Every time I get it up to full, and I mean every time, this way, within about the next 5 miles or so of driving, the battery guage performs this reset.
If I spend most of my time driving short trips around the city, I'll never get the guage much above half way. And during all this time, the guage never resets this way. This happens only after I've spend significant time on a freeway and get the guage registering full that way. This is so consistent, I can predict it happening. I just can't figure out why it works this way all the time.
I'm driving one of the early 2000 models and have put more than 60,000 miles on it.
From the information on this site and ellsewhere, the battery guage isn't always a true indicator of actual battery level and every so often recalibrates itself. This recalibration seems always to be in the negative: it recognizes that it's registering more than actual battery power available and sets itself down to zero (but never the opposite).
If I travel about 30 miles or more along a fairly flat freeway (and not into any headwind) at constant freeway speeds, I'll get the battery guage up to full. Every time I get it up to full, and I mean every time, this way, within about the next 5 miles or so of driving, the battery guage performs this reset.
If I spend most of my time driving short trips around the city, I'll never get the guage much above half way. And during all this time, the guage never resets this way. This happens only after I've spend significant time on a freeway and get the guage registering full that way. This is so consistent, I can predict it happening. I just can't figure out why it works this way all the time.
I'm driving one of the early 2000 models and have put more than 60,000 miles on it.