Kia EV9

[osu1991]

Well made it 18hrs and back at dealer. Guessing the battery coolant settled overnight. Have a low battery coolant warning now. Sitting here waiting for them to find the battery specialist and see how long that's gonna take to fix

 

[osu1991]

1.5hrs later system burped and appears to be air free and full again. Sent me home with a gallon of coolant in case it comes back, I can do it myself and not waste time going up there and waiting

 

[Ronnie-]

EV9 is ready with new high voltage battery, waiting on courtesy driver to come pick me up. Now to see if it can be trouble free until Nov 4 when I turn it in and if I can drive 13k miles before then to get money out of the lease.

That was actually a pretty quick turn around it seems.

 

[navychop]

Not the most encouraging….

 

[osu1991]

That was actually a pretty quick turn around it seems.

Dealer said same thing. I think my complaints to corporate may have helped. The dealer rep said they had two others that were approved before me and they were still waiting on those to arrive.

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[osu1991]

It's still a fun comfortable vehicle to drive around. It took an OTA update this morning for the infotainment system. Hopefully I don't get any of the black screen problems I've seen online with wireless CarPlay from people that already have the update.

 

[meStevo]

Verge article on their battery challenges - https://archive.is/Nfxzc

 

[Foxbat]

I was coming here to post the same Verge article, but you beat me to it. It seems odd that this particular battery pack would be a problem, is its size over the EV6? I thought the modules were all the same, so hopefully it's just a firmware problem that can be tweaked OTA for those packs that haven't yet been replaced.