Recent content by ChrisC

Hi all - After 7.5 months with my FFE, on Tuesday I will be trading it in for another car. The FFE is a good car, don't get me wrong, but it was just a stopgap solution for me while I waited for the BMW i3 to mature and come down in price a bit. I feel like I have all this knowledge about the...

Thanks for these tips. I will try the voice command step next time I'm in the car. Half of my departures don't involve reverse (I depart my garage forward) so I'll quickly find out if that's a factor. I'm usually listening to FM (yay HD radio), occasionally A/V input. I don't use Bluetooth...

For the record, value charging stopped working for me again. Whenever I stopped the car, it would always show an immediate charge start time. After a couple days of this, I tried to edit/check the value charging times (in the car) but it wouldn't let me click the edit button. I figured I was...

hcsharp, thanks for your report. I posted in this old thread because it had the most information already about this behavior, including your own report from a last year. v_traveller, you may be right about the actual message. I wasn't able to take a picture of it :) I found this thread by...

For the record, today I had my first encounter with an empty battery. We were just getting home from a range-stretching trip out of town, involved a couple charging stops along the way, and during the last mile the battery gauge read 1 mile to go. During the last hill climb in my neighborhood...

Burned by this problem again. Fix search please!

Indeed ... IT WORKS AGAIN! Following my last post here ... I tried a Master Reset, but that did not improve the situation. So I called up the Ford support line. Besides the value charge problem, I also had stopped being able to get remote status on the car. So the Ford rep's first question...

I *HAD* it set for 11pm start, 7am finish. Now it just says 12am-12am, and I can't edit it. I can go into the time editor, and change the start and stop times to 11/7, but after I save and exit, it still says 12am-12am. I did some googling this afternoon, and just now I did the reboot. In...

Precisely. PRECISELY. Which is why I replied to an existing thread! I'll dig up the other threads and link to them here. This just seemed to be the best one to continue on (reply to) since it actually had some other replies. http://www.myfocuselectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1847...

I'm having a new problem with value charging: it won't let me switch into it at all. On the settings screen, the "charge now" and "value charge" buttons are there, with the "charge now" button highlighted, and nothing happens when I select the "value charge" button. When I turn off the car...

Burned by this problem again. Fix search please!

Thanks for starting this thread. I have this exact same problem. When I get in the car, most of the time the sound system is mysteriously muted. Turning the volume up and down has no effect. I have to select one of the radio presets to get it to come on. I believe I've tried skipping...

That's silly, you should be able to check the fuses without "disabling the HV battery". If you come to the EV club meeting on Wednesday night we can meet up and take a look at it together. Hell, I'll look at it in *my* FFE (I need to see where the fuses are anyway) and then once you're...

Heh, it's a religious thing in the EV community. Some like it one way, some like it the other. Europeans use gallons per mile (well, in metric obviously, liters per 100km). Doing it this way makes it more apparent how truly wasteful the gas guzzlers are, and makes it easier to see how much...

Yep, what EVA says is simply wrong, or at best inaccurate. Sorry EVA :) Tesla's can lock their charge port to prevent removal, but only of the charge port on the Tesla itself. So if they plug a Tesla charge cord (the UMC cord, or Supercharger cord) into the car, THAT cord is locked to the...