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You can leave the car alone, disconnect the OBD scanner if you want. You can check the status later by plugging the ODB scanner againm, go in the app and folow the same procedure. “VIN Decoding”, “System Selection”, “BMU”, “Special Function” and “Battery Auto Capacity Measured”. When the...

And now, this is how I did it: First before you begin, the drive battery needs to be as empty as possible. The original procedure said that the state of charge should be under 30%, the updated procedure says that the charge level on the dashboard should be at just one bar. I don’t know which one...

TLDR: the procedure starts on post nr 2 Hello everyone! I’ve had some battery degradation on my phev lately. The battery state of health stayed religiously over 72% until the end of the battery warranty, but then started to go down faster and faster. Last week it went down by 1.5Ah overnight...

The drive battery has a cell balancing circuitry, and this requires to be able to measure the voltage of each cell. Basically during charging the balancing circuitry will divert some of the current away from the cells that have a higher than average voltage. This helps keeping all the cells at...

Oh sorry I just discovered that the 2019 manual in that link was without the Phev. That said a lot of procedures are the same between the 2016 and the 2019 model. You can get the voltage of each cell and a complete report through OBD, there is no need to take the battery out to get an assessment...

Yes it will. Charge mode is just here if you want to force the Phev to charge the battery. In normal mode it will decide itself when it needs to do it.

Thank for the tip!

Hello Pete, The drive battery isn't truly empty when it drops to zero on the dashboard. In order to preserve the battery the car will never completely discharge it or completely charge it, and an "empty" battery is in fact at about 30% state of charge, while a "full" battery is at about 90%...

Can you ask your dealer for the actual procedure they need to do on the battery from the workshop manual ? Just the name would be enough. I honestly don't see what kind of expensive service they would need to perform. I don't know what the laws are in NZ, but in Norway at least the car warranty...

There is no CVT and the gearbox has only one gear. As you are towing a caravan it's possible that the load is too high for the engine in that single gear and the Phev decides to switch back to series hybrid instead. You will hear the engine rev up as it needs to generate more power to drive the...

I have a 2016 model in Norway and never had the battery serviced. The first time it was taken out is when the fuse was blown last year.

I didn't see in your other thread that you were using solar, so in that case the strategy may be a bit different. You may want to optimize charging by using the highest current you can when there is enough sun. Just be check the plug from time to time (not the one on the car site, the other...

The optimal current for charging is as low as possible that will still fully charge your car for when you need it. Higher currents cause higher power loss and increase the wear on the plugs. I just have the default granny charger stuck on 10A and it's more than enough to charge over night. I...

Yes it looks like the DBCAM was performed correctly and you gained a few Ah in the process

If this happens while you are driving it's probably not the 12V aux battery. My first suspicion given your symptoms and the fact that you just bought the car is that the previous owner did a BMU reset to try and hide the bad condition of the drive battery. You should drive it to a Mitsubishi...

I have a 2016 model and the brake lights illuminate in B5 only.

Getting all the battery cells to the same voltage is another operation that they call cell smoothing. The DBCAM procedure forces the battery monitoring unit to measure the battery actual capacity instead of relying on its estimated capacity. It doesn't change anything to the actual battery...

When I had a similar problem on my car it was at least two weeks a the dealership before I could get a diagnosis. It turns out following Mitsubishi's checklist to diagnose a problem doesn't cover all possibilities and they couldn't pin point the problem. They had several days of discussions with...

He wasn't talking about you, don't worry ;)

You will need an ODB reader and check for error codes, it can be all kind of problems in the EV system unfortunately.