Hi everyone. I've posted about this on the yahoo group, but figured I shouljd cross post it here in case it might help someone.
So here's the scenario. For a few months now, and it's been getting worse with time, occasionally my car would go crazy and I would loose initially my ability to get full regen, it would only get what having it gear would do, and no auto stop. Then other times it'd be fine for as much as weeks on end. Then sometimes I'd be stricken with the wierd mode for a few days sometimes. It became difficult to get the battery charge to stay in normal range without having full regen so I had to adapt my driving style to depend more on the engine. Well anyways I finally got the car doing it's thing and took it to the dealership, they said they found a loose connection for the horn but couldn't verify regen and auto stop not funtioning. In fact they tried to tell me I was using the climate control wrong, but I was the one who wrote the climate control FAQ here.
So finally I posted this on the yahoo group and got a possible solution. The brake lights and horn are on the same circuit. So I checked one night when I had the car doing it's thing, sure enough no brake lights either, which would explain why I had almost been rear ended several times. So it made sense now, no brake signal ment no regen and apparently auto stop depends on it as well. I started poking around and found the problem. Fuse #6 under the hood was the culprite. It was barely making any connection with the fuse holder, in fact you could remove it with your bear fingers where you usually need to use the little puller to get it out. The blades of the fuse has some pretty decent arcing as well on them which would point to it slowly getting worse and worse like it did.
Ok so I had found the problem much to my relief, I could finally show the guys at the dealership that I was not crazy, and I had proof. So I made my appointment and secured another vehicle to drive for the time being. So using hand signals I got it over to the dealership, showed them the problem, I got a call the next day saying they had to order the part and it should be in the next day, ok no big deal. That was monday, I called every day asking how it was going and they always told me tomorrow. So today I finally got a call from the service manager and he told me they didn't know what was happening and they had it put on rush delivery or whatever they use.
At this point I get fed up with it and call my friend who's the parts manager and see what the deal is. He called Honda for me (the part is on national back order btw). Well, the part is probably on a boat or will be soon. ETA.... December 8th! Ouch!
I guess in a way it's good that this is an isolated incident, but a month to get a fuse/relay box, geez. So tomorrow I'm going to go get the car and bring it home, put it in the back yard, cover it up and try and just foreget about it (of course I'll go start it once a week).
This is very discouraging, I wish they could fly parts instead of boating them.
So if anyone else ever has this problem, that might be your fix, but from what I understand I'm the only one with one on order. All well, guess thats what I can expect for having a limited out of country production car.
I'm already starting to miss it. My loaner vehicle is a 98 New Beetle, which I'm not too fond of.
So here's the scenario. For a few months now, and it's been getting worse with time, occasionally my car would go crazy and I would loose initially my ability to get full regen, it would only get what having it gear would do, and no auto stop. Then other times it'd be fine for as much as weeks on end. Then sometimes I'd be stricken with the wierd mode for a few days sometimes. It became difficult to get the battery charge to stay in normal range without having full regen so I had to adapt my driving style to depend more on the engine. Well anyways I finally got the car doing it's thing and took it to the dealership, they said they found a loose connection for the horn but couldn't verify regen and auto stop not funtioning. In fact they tried to tell me I was using the climate control wrong, but I was the one who wrote the climate control FAQ here.
So finally I posted this on the yahoo group and got a possible solution. The brake lights and horn are on the same circuit. So I checked one night when I had the car doing it's thing, sure enough no brake lights either, which would explain why I had almost been rear ended several times. So it made sense now, no brake signal ment no regen and apparently auto stop depends on it as well. I started poking around and found the problem. Fuse #6 under the hood was the culprite. It was barely making any connection with the fuse holder, in fact you could remove it with your bear fingers where you usually need to use the little puller to get it out. The blades of the fuse has some pretty decent arcing as well on them which would point to it slowly getting worse and worse like it did.
Ok so I had found the problem much to my relief, I could finally show the guys at the dealership that I was not crazy, and I had proof. So I made my appointment and secured another vehicle to drive for the time being. So using hand signals I got it over to the dealership, showed them the problem, I got a call the next day saying they had to order the part and it should be in the next day, ok no big deal. That was monday, I called every day asking how it was going and they always told me tomorrow. So today I finally got a call from the service manager and he told me they didn't know what was happening and they had it put on rush delivery or whatever they use.
At this point I get fed up with it and call my friend who's the parts manager and see what the deal is. He called Honda for me (the part is on national back order btw). Well, the part is probably on a boat or will be soon. ETA.... December 8th! Ouch!
I guess in a way it's good that this is an isolated incident, but a month to get a fuse/relay box, geez. So tomorrow I'm going to go get the car and bring it home, put it in the back yard, cover it up and try and just foreget about it (of course I'll go start it once a week).
This is very discouraging, I wish they could fly parts instead of boating them.
So if anyone else ever has this problem, that might be your fix, but from what I understand I'm the only one with one on order. All well, guess thats what I can expect for having a limited out of country production car.
I'm already starting to miss it. My loaner vehicle is a 98 New Beetle, which I'm not too fond of.
