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Nate - Sounds a lot like mine... how many mi and how long have you had it? I'm at 30 months but it started at ~25 months. I took mine to Kia of Irvine, which said they couldn't find any fault (although I suspect they didn't even test it). Kia of Orange then checked and said there was a fault in...

2 years & 6 months, 32K miles. Since Nov 2016, my effective range has been 55 mi on a full charge (while Kia reports 4.5 mi/kWh). I had it tested at 2 dealerships and they've finally concluded that the onboard charging unit AND battery cells are faulty -- not charging to 100% or holding the...

Thx for the response guys. I've been monitoring the degradation and it's bad. I'm actually ranging between 3.5 to 3.9 mi/kWh (using some heating) driving in ECO but mostly highway miles. In the past weeks, I'm only averaging .6 actual mi per 1% in battery. The past weeks, my weekday commute of...

I know there are several old threads on this but I haven't seen anyone with nearly as bad of range as I've been getting. I have 25 months & 25k miles on my Soul EV. Since getting the car, I have seen my range drop from 100 to 85 gradually. In the past 3 weeks (moderate SoCal weather of 70's...

Avitt, I'm going to try it this weekend. Steps: 1) Remove dust cap (done) 2) Turn CCW to remove the bulb housing from headlight. 3) Remove bulb from the black plastic housing. Any tips on how to remove the bulb? Manual says to press the release but it looks pretty solid. Thanks!

There is a way to turn them on during the day: In the headlight knob, instead of having it on Auto, go to the 2nd setting. The first is off, 2nd is DRL, 3rd is headlights&DRL on, 4th is auto. Turn to 2nd setting.

Haha no... luckily, I'm not that useless! I can remove the dust cap -- it's the step after that in pulling the square black piece out of the slot. It sounds like I should turn that CCW too. I'll try it tomorrow.

Just to be abundantly clear, you mean turn counterclockwise the black plastic housing that is connected to the actual unit right? That's the first step that I had issues with... I've only been wiggling or pulling and it didn't come out. I'll try counterclockwise next. I have leased all my cars...

Avitt, Congrats on the upgrade; I'm sure it looks great! I don't have the time, skills or patience to do a HID kit. Any tips on removing the original bulb? Did you do anything special besides strength/wiggle? I guess you had nothing to lose using a spanner as you were getting rid of the old...

No one's tried it? Two sites I've found info on but still having difficultly removing the connector: http://www.carcarekiosk.com/video/2012_Kia_Soul_!_2.0L_4_Cyl./lights/highbeam http://www.paulstravelpictures.com/Kia-Soul-Headlight-Bulbs-Replacement-Guide/index.html

I'm down in the Orange County area. Anyone else?

Anyone with experience in changing the headlight bulb?

Hey all! I was glad that the Soul EV came with projector headlights but disappointed that it didn't come with HIDs. Don't want to do a HID conversion b/c it's difficult to avoid glare, but wanted to change out the H7 low beam bulb to a brighter one (Philips X-Treme). Anyone here with...