Unable to Restart after using AC (was AC causes failure)

Skywagon · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:26 pm

Ready2plugin wrote:

azdre wrote:

Sitting here in my DEAD LEAF. Same symptoms. I set the car to precool, now it won't let me go anywhere. Yes, brake checked, acc mode checked. :evil:

Was the car plugged in? If it wasn't it looks like we do have the same problem here. As for A/C vs. AC I think Ray might be onto something...

I just talked to her... the car was not plugged in. So it looks like it is the exact same problem all over again.

Azrich · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:45 pm

azdre wrote:

Sitting here in my DEAD LEAF. Same symptoms. I set the car to precool, now it won't let me go anywhere. Yes, brake checked, acc mode checked. :evil:

This exact thing happened to me yesterday at 4 pm as I was trying to show it off to a co-worker. DEAD. Flat-bed tow truck arrives and driver tells me, "Oh, that is one of those electric cars. They are all a piece of junk." I told him not to touch my vehicle. I hopefully set him straight on keeping his opinions to himself and then we preceeded towing it for an hour to the dealer.

Got a call a while ago that the LEAF Tech line told them to evacuate the AC lines and recharge. I'm headed there soon to test the precool feature from my iPhone. They have it charging up now. They needed new lines for the AC that were non-magnetic so it won't interfer with the electronics.

DON'T PRE-COOL YOUR LEAFS UNTIL THEY FIGURE THIS OUT.

Off to the dealer....

malloryk · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:54 pm

is Leafwing in AZ too?

mwalsh · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:54 pm

Azrich wrote:

This exact thing happened to me yesterday at 4 pm as I was trying to show it off to a co-worker. DEAD. Flat-bed tow truck arrives and driver tells me, "Oh, that is one of those electric cars. They are all a piece of junk." I told him not to touch my vehicle. I hopefully set him straight on keeping his opinions to himself and then we preceeded towing it for an hour to the dealer.

Got a call a while ago that the LEAF Tech line told them to evacuate the AC lines and recharge. I'm headed there soon to test the precool feature from my iPhone. They have it charging up now. They needed new lines for the AC that were non-magnetic so it won't interfere with the electronics.

DON'T PRE-COOL YOUR LEAFS UNTIL THEY FIGURE THIS OUT.

Off to the dealer....

OK, this is good. Problem quickly identified and an apparent solution devised.

smkettner · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:56 pm

Is this going to be a recall?

Skywagon · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:08 pm

Strangely enough I have precooled several times in the past 2 weeks and I am in AZ... maybe a later software revision or process change caused this? I have a very early car so maybe I am lucky on this one.

TomT · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:12 pm

I'm sorry, but this simply makes no sense.

I can't imagine a design implementation that would terminally shut down the vehicle because of an Air Conditioning malfunction. Nor does the comment about "non-magnetic lines" and interference sound like other than double-speak nonsense.

If either of these is actually true, the engineer who designed that system should be fired!

This is definitely deflecting my BS meter big-time. FYI, I've precooled many times without incident.

Azrich wrote:

Got a call a while ago that the LEAF Tech line told them to evacuate the AC lines and recharge. I'm headed there soon to test the precool feature from my iPhone. They have it charging up now. They needed new lines for the AC that were non-magnetic so it won't interfer with the electronics.

davewill · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:13 pm

Skywagon wrote:

Strangely enough I have precooled several times in the past 2 weeks and I am in AZ... maybe a later software revision or process change caused this? I have a very early car so maybe I am lucky on this one.

Not too surprising...If it happened all the time, they would have caught this long before now.

davewill · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:16 pm

Azrich wrote:

Got a call a while ago that the LEAF Tech line told them to evacuate the AC lines and recharge. I'm headed there soon to test the precool feature from my iPhone. They have it charging up now. They needed new lines for the AC that were non-magnetic so it won't interfer with the electronics.

I've got it! The A/C is much stronger than we knew and the metal A/C lines are getting supercold and becoming...SUPERCONDUCTORS! Powerful magnetic fields are then generated that scramble the on-board computers. Go ahead, tell me I'm brilliant.

TomT · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:23 pm

I'm sticking with space aliens!

davewill wrote:

I've got it! The A/C is much stronger than we knew and the metal A/C lines are getting supercold and becoming...SUPERCONDUCTORS! Powerful magnetic fields are then generated that scramble the on-board computers. Go ahead, tell me I'm brilliant.

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