I tend not to post any problems, and luckily I have not had to but I have an inquiry.
I know it has been a fairly easy Winter, when you think of it SNOW WISE! But earlier this year, my Volt got snowed in. Yeah, ok, the snow blower broke so i was sort of stuck. I had a different vehicle I could use so I let the VOLT sit.
As the snow finally went away, circumstance kept me in the ICE vehicle and the VOLT rested, in good shape I thought. I'd say it sat about 30 days but that's an estimate. I thought all was good as the VOLT was plugged into the charger like the manual says to do.
WELL! I go out to start the volt and NOTHING!. So Back To The VOLT Manual.
It takes me to the 12v battery. So to charge the Battery, it suggests to open hood and use the jumper points (Jumper to jump the Volt, if you need to jump another car, they want you to jump directly from the 12v battery in the back.
I jump the battery and the car lights up and beeps. Now the manual says to start the VOLT which I do (the VOLT will only charge the 12 v battery from the large power battery when the car is on), and then to remove the jumper leads. I do this and the car dies. GRUMBLE GrRRr Gramble rumble...
Back to the manual, I read it right.... I jump it agian, start the car and open the rear hatch. Again I pull the jump leads, and the car dies.
I reason the battery is really dead and ended up pulling the negative lead to charge the 12v battery. ( FAST NOTE, Direct From The MANUAL...... when the VOLT sits for any time over two-three weeks, you should put a battery maintainer on the 12v battery. There is a constant low power drain on the 12v battery, even when off. This drain will eventually drain the 12v battery of all power. The Large battery only charges the 12v battery when the VOLT is ON and running).
The charger in fast charge mode took 24 hours to charge that battery at a very high amp charge rate. Never seen this happen before. (A caution here, if outside and you are going to lower the hatch to protect from weather, BE SURE TO PUT A BOARD OR SOMETHING TO PREVENT THE HATCH FROM LATCHING. ( ask me how I know this )! ! And yes, the rear hatch is electrically latched ! ! ! I had the power cord going into the rear and thought the cord was enough to hold the hatch up from the latch, NOPE !
So the Battery is charged, the Negative lead is connected and the car starts like normal. Only not, now everything that is user settable is forgotton. You'd think GM would have sprung for some memory that won't erase when the battery goes dead.
I took it for a drive to make sure there were no new error messages, there were none. But when trying to set the dash to the dash screen I like, when it says to press SELECT to save, it doesn't. Back to the manual. The manual says I pressed the correct SELECT button on the steering wheel, just no select....
Any ideas??
Thanks all.
I know it has been a fairly easy Winter, when you think of it SNOW WISE! But earlier this year, my Volt got snowed in. Yeah, ok, the snow blower broke so i was sort of stuck. I had a different vehicle I could use so I let the VOLT sit.
As the snow finally went away, circumstance kept me in the ICE vehicle and the VOLT rested, in good shape I thought. I'd say it sat about 30 days but that's an estimate. I thought all was good as the VOLT was plugged into the charger like the manual says to do.
WELL! I go out to start the volt and NOTHING!. So Back To The VOLT Manual.
It takes me to the 12v battery. So to charge the Battery, it suggests to open hood and use the jumper points (Jumper to jump the Volt, if you need to jump another car, they want you to jump directly from the 12v battery in the back.
I jump the battery and the car lights up and beeps. Now the manual says to start the VOLT which I do (the VOLT will only charge the 12 v battery from the large power battery when the car is on), and then to remove the jumper leads. I do this and the car dies. GRUMBLE GrRRr Gramble rumble...
Back to the manual, I read it right.... I jump it agian, start the car and open the rear hatch. Again I pull the jump leads, and the car dies.
I reason the battery is really dead and ended up pulling the negative lead to charge the 12v battery. ( FAST NOTE, Direct From The MANUAL...... when the VOLT sits for any time over two-three weeks, you should put a battery maintainer on the 12v battery. There is a constant low power drain on the 12v battery, even when off. This drain will eventually drain the 12v battery of all power. The Large battery only charges the 12v battery when the VOLT is ON and running).
The charger in fast charge mode took 24 hours to charge that battery at a very high amp charge rate. Never seen this happen before. (A caution here, if outside and you are going to lower the hatch to protect from weather, BE SURE TO PUT A BOARD OR SOMETHING TO PREVENT THE HATCH FROM LATCHING. ( ask me how I know this )! ! And yes, the rear hatch is electrically latched ! ! ! I had the power cord going into the rear and thought the cord was enough to hold the hatch up from the latch, NOPE !
So the Battery is charged, the Negative lead is connected and the car starts like normal. Only not, now everything that is user settable is forgotton. You'd think GM would have sprung for some memory that won't erase when the battery goes dead.
I took it for a drive to make sure there were no new error messages, there were none. But when trying to set the dash to the dash screen I like, when it says to press SELECT to save, it doesn't. Back to the manual. The manual says I pressed the correct SELECT button on the steering wheel, just no select....
Any ideas??
Thanks all.
