u/chuck415

I’m paranoid about the 12V battery failures some people have reported with Subaru/Toyota EVs and other automakers, so I installed this ANCEL BM300 Pro battery monitor. It took less than five minutes to install.

It has notifications and alarms you can set if the battery drops below a certain voltage. It uses Bluetooth, so you need to be within about 10–15 feet of the car to get data, but it makes it easy to monitor your battery’s state of charge (SoC) through the app.

There will be times when we don’t drive the car for a few days, and I want to make sure telematics requests from the Subaru Connect app aren’t draining the 12V battery.

Other things I’m doing to avoid 12V battery drain:

- Disabled ACC mode
- Never use “Power On” mode (massive drain)
- Always use “Ready” mode if I’m sitting in the car waiting, so the traction battery charges the 12V battery

We got these two things that have been useful for our Uncharted. The first is a charger dock and hook to hang the cable. You can find it on Amazon too.

https://ev-lectron.com/products/lectron-tesla-nacs-electric-vehicle-charger-nozzle-holster-dock-j-hook-cable-management

The second one is this silicon charging mat for the wireless chargers. It’s thin enough that it still charges the phones that have silicon cases. It’s more for protection of the plastic charging area as I think our silicon cases are grippier directly on the charging surface.

https://www.amazon.com/Silicone-Wireless-Protective-Anti-Slip-Accessories/dp/B0D2D3DRGL

We got our Sport in Metropolis Gray a couple days ago and love it! Our dog approves too. 😂

We got a great deal, $7,500 under MSRP. We also couldn’t pass up the 0% APR for 72 months. It’s free money!

The car itself is great, but the buying experience with this dealer was not. I negotiated the OTD price over text, which was great. I got pre-approved for the loan and sent them everything they needed ahead of time, but it still took over three hours at the dealership before we finally had documents to sign.

They also prepped the wrong color car, which delayed our scheduled pickup time by a couple of hours, and they delivered the car with only 17% SoC. I had to figure out how to use a Tesla Supercharger before driving home.

If I had to do it over again, I would’ve gone with a different dealer that had better customer service. The extra $500 in savings wasn’t worth all the frustration during signing.