u/naticom

My EV9 has been showing weird charging behavior so I took it to Kia. Before sending the car back, I plugged in an ODBII and saw one of the cell has lower voltage (4.02V for that cell and others at 4.08V). After their local certified EV technician's diagnostics (also some back and forth with Kia Canada), they came to a conclusion that BMS needs to be swapped out. Since it's a BMS, it's going to be a lot faster than swapping out the HV batteries.

I'm asking the EV pros here that if a bad cell can be fixed by swapping out the BMS module? I'm always having the impression that a bad cell needs to be swapped out. If BMS causes problems, we should be seeing problems on other cells as well.

I cannot post in r/amex so asking here.

I'm holding a no-fee Amex Bonvoy card for years, and the AF is about to post early next month. I still haven't used the 35K FNA (expiring in 2.5 months). If I upgrade the card to Brilliant, do I pay less fees and get the 85K FNA + extra 10 Elite nights? How does that work?

My 2024 EV9 recently had some charging problems - SOC would jump from 95% to 100% in a second. I’ve done multiple charging tests and got consistent result. Suspecting there might be dead cell.

I’m seeing post but OP didn’t say which OBDII and app he was using to show battery info. Can someone suggest one?

https://www.reddit.com/r/KiaEV9/comments/1hhxzrv/charging_from_90_to_100_way_too_quick/

House got any problem and would like to try DE. Reasonable price for a pound should be $4-$7 but the ones I can find at hardware stores or super stores are advertised as pest control and sold at $15+ for only 200g.

Is there any store that are carrying/selling DE in bulk. I do not want to pay $10 more just for the “beautiful” bottle.

Thanks

Now the 13th month into juggling between two jobs and I don’t really know how I survived the past year. I was basically working 12+ hrs / day with J2 occupying the majority. J2 pays 1.4X than J1, but now I’ve gained a lot of weight with very minimum workout, I think the lifestyle is unsustainable.

The last straw was that J1 promoted me and expected me to be a lot more productive than before (like 10% raise but 50% more responsibilities), which was the situation I wanted to avoid.

However, both companies are still laying off people, I really want to let go of J1 but as many suggested in here, I’ll probably wait..