u/FrugaliciousEclectic

Anyone had problems resulting from dying 12v?

I'm honestly just wondering if anyone has encountered odd issues with their cars only to find out that a dying 12v is the culprit. I have a Chevy Bolt and this is a common occurrence reported by owners after about 5 years; at which point the car may start giving them weird error codes/service indicators.

I mention this because my Buzz has been in service for 7 months now (and yes I've requested a buyback), and though the initial problem we brought the car in for is resolved, the car now has other issues; those being that the door "only opens to 75% and will not allow programming to set opening to 100%", and the window switches are inverted, so up goes down and down goes up. Before we bought the car it spent about 4 months sitting at port due to the 3rd row seat recall and then has now been sitting in service for the past 7 months. I'm genuinely curious if the 12v might be causing some of these issues at this point and was curious of any input from you all.

Though we are still navigating this issue with customer care, we would really love to enjoy the car.

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u/FrugaliciousEclectic — 2 days ago
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Hypermiling/Ecomodding

Greetings all! Current Chevy Bolt owner checking in and considering buying a 2014 Leaf with 9/12 bars of battery health. Owner states that the cars gets "between 60-75 miles on a full charge", the area I'm in is rather hilly so understandable.

I've tried searching the Ecomodder forum but didn't find much on there, has anyone done aggressive ecomodding on this car? I've seen a few do rear wheel covers, but I'm thinking of doing more like...

-thinner wheels and/or LRR tires

-stripping the interior

-adding aero/diffusers to the back of the car

-rear wheel covers with slits to relieve air pressure

Before the eventually need for a battery swap, I want to see if increasing the cars range by 20-30% is achievable. Thanks!

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u/FrugaliciousEclectic — 30 days ago

Looking for a dealer within 200 mile radius of West Virginia who has encountered a sliding door issue and fixed it.

Long story short, one of the rear sliding doors stopped functioning back in November, and we took the car in for what we thought would be a quick fix. Nearly 6 months later, the dealer has replaced wires, harnesses, sensors, the sliding glass, and the door motor itself. I've read/seen a lot of owners have this issue with the door, I have yet to see anyone who has had to wait this long. I recently saw a video where someone suggested to just take it to a different dealer, and I'm hoping for some good news as we love the car.

Thanks!

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u/FrugaliciousEclectic — 1 month ago