Heh, you might want to search for the threads for loose battery connector. I recall reading quite a few people having an issue with a terminal block involving the 12V battery. I forget if it's located in the engine compartment or near the 12V battery itself in the rear of the Volt. This connector being loose led to many weird issues. Amusing that GM is suggesting looking for it. Maybe they should issue an advisory or something to check for this first when strange symptoms arise.
Almost Dead Volt
i have a MY2016 Volt Premier
on Monday while driving towards the freeway the DIC and MyLink displays flickered between bright and dark then the DIC blanked out and when it returned it showed the background GFX (Classic Enhanced) but none of the info parts were updating(speed, Electric Charge, Fuel) and the Power Loss/Gain on the right side froze and gave at least 10 different "Service..." messages
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tried restarting the car once at a light and it wouldn't do so but since everything else worked fine i decided to drive it to the Dealer and have them look at it
when i got out at the dealer it wouldn't turn off completely and the headlights stayed on
when the scheduler went out to look at it it had finally turned off and now wouldn't turn on
later that day after getting a loaner and going to work the informed me the had needed to reprogram the HVAC and that fixed it
on Tuesday all was fine
on Tuesday night we got almost a foot of snow(rare for us Portlanders to get any snow) and on Wednesday morning it wouldn't start again with almost the same symptoms
i cannot get it to start by using the start button
i have to use the Remote Start sequence on the fob
this time there is a little icon of a wrench(Service Electric Parking Brake Light) that cycles with what looks like a headlight and an arrow that points left and right
due to all the snow tow trucks are hard to find and im trying to see if there is some way i can get this at least temporarily fixed so i might drive it to the dealer myself
on Monday while driving towards the freeway the DIC and MyLink displays flickered between bright and dark then the DIC blanked out and when it returned it showed the background GFX (Classic Enhanced) but none of the info parts were updating(speed, Electric Charge, Fuel) and the Power Loss/Gain on the right side froze and gave at least 10 different "Service..." messages
tried restarting the car once at a light and it wouldn't do so but since everything else worked fine i decided to drive it to the Dealer and have them look at it
when i got out at the dealer it wouldn't turn off completely and the headlights stayed on
when the scheduler went out to look at it it had finally turned off and now wouldn't turn on
later that day after getting a loaner and going to work the informed me the had needed to reprogram the HVAC and that fixed it
on Tuesday all was fine
on Tuesday night we got almost a foot of snow(rare for us Portlanders to get any snow) and on Wednesday morning it wouldn't start again with almost the same symptoms
i cannot get it to start by using the start button
i have to use the Remote Start sequence on the fob
this time there is a little icon of a wrench(Service Electric Parking Brake Light) that cycles with what looks like a headlight and an arrow that points left and right
due to all the snow tow trucks are hard to find and im trying to see if there is some way i can get this at least temporarily fixed so i might drive it to the dealer myself
