I got a different service rep than last time, but he saw in my history that they had performed a number of repairs on it already and he said he was honestly surprised that it had so many problems. We joked that it was because it was bright blue
It is CPO, but the previous owner was a "corporate fleet" that drove it for about 550 miles total, 500 miles EV. Not much room to drive it rough, unless they were driving it on extremely rough terrain or something.
Does "lemon law" apply for CPO cars? I thought it was only for new cars. I would
love to have it exchanged for a '17 if I knew the 17 wasn't going to have problems like this. I can't spare the time off work to take my car into the shop every month and a half, especially not when I'm paying what I am for it less than a year out of college.
I did try to explain everything that I observed to them; I can only hope that I explained it well enough for the service rep to tell the Volt tech on Monday. I know 12V issues can cause all sorts of other issues with the car, but the other issues I've had are completely unrelated. I had to get new spark plugs at 4000 miles. I had to get a new hybrid battery segment at somewhere around 5000 or 6000. I had to drive a '15 Malibu for 2.5 weeks for that repair. A new car shouldn't have problems like that.
I believe you're right, ***, that it's an intermittent problem. When I got home from the 5-10 minute drive that initiated the problem, the charger I hooked up said it was at 12.7 volts only a couple minutes after shutting it off. Obviously low. The next morning, after charging it all night, the charger said it was at 14.9 volts. Sounds right. I disconnected the charger and started the car. Battery warning light came on right away, but when I measured it with a multimeter (while running), it read 15.0 volts. Backed the car out of the garage into the driveway for the tow truck, and the warning light went out (but MIL stayed on).