Volt goes through normal initialization. Green car light shows ready. Shift to drive or reverse, no power.
Dash instructs me to "open and close the driver window, then put in Park, then try to drive". Repeated this 4 times and car drove OK. Same thing happened 2 weeks later. Two dealer service experts could find no codes and had never heard of this sequence of instructions. Expert 2 told me to wait until it happens again and then have the car towed wheels up to their shop. So, we will see. I hope it fails again soon because when it happens to my wife, she freaks out. Says the car is unreliable and wants to get rid of it (we love everything else about the car).
Colorado has a lemon law so I will use that if need be. But, I would prefer that a Chevy engineer figure this out.
Also contributing to my paranoia is the fact that one evening, I shut everything down COMPLETELY, locked the doors and plugged it in for an overnight charge. Came out in the morning and everything was dead. Had a tow truck jump the battery and drove it to a dealer. Battery was completely discharged. Upon charging, battery tested just fine. No codes. Problem has not recurred. Noticed a long string of posts on the forum about this battery problem. None of the experts could explain why this is occurring to so many owners, except that either something was left on and/or the shifter was not fully in Park. These explanations do not apply to me.
Dash instructs me to "open and close the driver window, then put in Park, then try to drive". Repeated this 4 times and car drove OK. Same thing happened 2 weeks later. Two dealer service experts could find no codes and had never heard of this sequence of instructions. Expert 2 told me to wait until it happens again and then have the car towed wheels up to their shop. So, we will see. I hope it fails again soon because when it happens to my wife, she freaks out. Says the car is unreliable and wants to get rid of it (we love everything else about the car).
Colorado has a lemon law so I will use that if need be. But, I would prefer that a Chevy engineer figure this out.
Also contributing to my paranoia is the fact that one evening, I shut everything down COMPLETELY, locked the doors and plugged it in for an overnight charge. Came out in the morning and everything was dead. Had a tow truck jump the battery and drove it to a dealer. Battery was completely discharged. Upon charging, battery tested just fine. No codes. Problem has not recurred. Noticed a long string of posts on the forum about this battery problem. None of the experts could explain why this is occurring to so many owners, except that either something was left on and/or the shifter was not fully in Park. These explanations do not apply to me.
