Recent content by JeroenE

Was this an option in your region? I'm pretty sure it's on all the Soul EV's in Europe because it became mandatory since November 2014 for new cars sold in the EU.

It seems more a problem with your brakes or ABS to be honest. I'm not sure if autopilot relies on that. ESP needs to be able to detect traction loss (as does ABS). Autohold needs to know if you have pressed the break to standstill. I don't know why the dealer can't help, for sure they should...

Below is a picture of an open charge port (which I found using a search engine). If you look closely at the right side there is a small pin just on the inside of the port. That pin can retract to release the door. The same pin is on the left side, but it is a bit hidden in the door mechanism...

No, the car first has to start of the 12V battery. Only when that is completed the propulsion battery is switched on. Only then the car can be powered from the 12V DC-DC convertor (using the propulsion battery as a source). I think this is a mandatory safety feature to prevent the propulsion...

You're probably right, maybe this behaviour came after an earlier update. So long ago I don't even remember 🤷

I don't know abut the US, but if you make an appointment here for the recall (which I did) the appointment is 2 months in the future. Such a long wait is not only for the recall, the same applies when you want normal maintenance.

I have no real answer for you, but my car would sometimes throw weird warning lights when the 12V battery was dying. That always happens when starting and usually when it happens it means it won't start at all without recharging the 12V battery. Perhaps your 12V battery is not the great anymore...

I live in Europe in The Netherlands. I recently got one letter for two recalls. One for the BMS and one for the parking barrier (not sure if this is the correct English term). Of course, the recalls have different numbering over here. The first is KRE23-17-P050-PS EV. Paraphrased it says: Due...

Is the compressor you found too small? Why would they want to put in a bigger compressor in the first place? I know nothing about American repairs, but perhaps you could get a quote from a 3rd party workshop. You don't need to stay with the Kia dealer, especially when the guarantee is no longer...

There are convertors on Aliexpress already. But very little to no detail on how this is working. The price is a lot higher than you want. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006011665873.html There are also a guy in Europe who built a CCS2 to Chademo convertor. They use lots of electronics in...

The Kia dealer can make a detailed report about the battery, but they need the car for that. They need to do that before they do any BMS upgrades on the car, otherwise it will take some time driving to get the car to know the real battery data again. You can also ask if and when the battery...

Theoretically that can be done. There's a Chademo to Tesla converter available (or at least was) that most fast charging stations had hanging near at least one charging station back in the day. But that's a rather bulky thing and the Tesla connector is pretty slim. Having two big connectors on...

Go to the dealership and ask them to create a report about the health of the battery. Don't let them reset the BMS first! That means it will take some time before the BMS will learn the actual value of the SOH. Let them read this before they do anything: https://www.tsbsearch.com/Kia/PS548

As far as I know at that time the 50 kW Chademo chargers were standard, there weren't any faster. At least not in Europe. They had one in their own facility in Germany, but that was not open for the public. Apparently because it was not certified for use on the normal public electrical grid. It...

I'm no expert, but I've always learned to always use the same type of batteries; just like IanL said. Perhaps there's a scrap yard / junk yard which has gotten an old / damaged Kia Soul where the battery is still good / undamaged? But in my country they never really sold well so there aren't...