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Thank you YpinEV for sharing your observation. Indeed it's very weird that the car is not able to use the cooled cabin air when it needs it. BTW, are you from Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu?

Hello all. Can please someone describe how the HV battery inlet temperature sensor works and its purpose. My understanding is that this sensor stays in the cabin under the driver seat and shows the temperature near the inlet of the HV battery cooling system. It looks like that the battery...

Thank you Notfred for the explanation. What you described does not look very positive. I can verify the wires and the connectors but not further. Also bad wires might not have a visible defect which complicates the staff a little bit more. I think that if the engine is to be replaced it should...

Yes, there is a fault code P0A42. The same code is shown by the spy app as well: OBD.DtcCodes.7EA: [P0A42]. The explanation I found on the Internet is: "Drive Motor A Position Sensor Circuit High" & "End of Range – Circuit Higher Than Expected". Not very verbose to me. battery_fan_status...

Today is a hot day outside so I was able to "break down" my car again. In terms of temperatures I see that it is defenatly not battery nor engine. Battery was 30 C degrees ( as usual), the motor was 50 C. It used withstand temperatures more than 70 so it is something else. All others nodes I was...

Hello guys. I am really concerned about the EWP ( water pump) behavior. Do you have any information why it might work at different speed when powered from battery and from ac charger? Maybe If you could check it on your car and confirm or object such behavior? I would appreciate it. Because I am...

Hello. I checked it with the kias soul ev spy application and the temperature parameter which got high is vmcu.motor_temperature. I think it's the engine. Maybe it's general name for nodes in the same block? However I cannot be 100% sure. There were also other temperature parameters: mcu and...

I think I am closer to the root issue now. Again, thanks to notfred for pointing out the awesome kia soul spy app. The problem is not the HV battery overheating. I think that motor overheating is more likely. Today I was testing the car and I was able to heat the engine up to 100C degrees. I...

I made use of kia soul spy software - it's cool and works with a torque I borrowed from my neighbor (not recommended one). This week is said to be cold - a lot of rains so perhaps it will take more time for further debugging. However thanks to the app I can already object one of my previous...

Hello notfred. Oh yeah, I thought about this kind of monitoring. Can you suggest a device which can show the required data? There are plenty of products on the market whose price varies from 20$ to 200+$. A hard choice(((.

Hello IanL. The described test procedure might help me with diagnostic btw. However the software looks fancy. Is it accessible only for the dealerships? What does it mean "Connect the GDS to DLC?

Why I think it's the battery overheating: The problem occurs on hot days only (sunny summer days). The error goes away after some idling (natural cooling - even chilling)))). With the fact above I think it's definitely overheating. However it might be either engine either battery. Second fact...

Hello all, I saw several users described already the similar problem but their cases seemed to be different from mine. "Check EV system" is very generic error message. I have a problem with the car (kia soul EV 2015). When driving in a hot day it can simply turn off and refuse to turn on again...