BMS update fail...

Battery has arrived. They have the special coolant (which apparently has a limited shelf life). They have the lift table.

What they don't yet have is a special tool for lifting the battery. That got sent separately, and will be there tomorrow. They allow 4 hours labor for warranty replacement, so the end is in sight.

 

My dealer told me that the price she saw for the battery was something like 45k$ - essentially MSRP for the car. She had never seen anything that expensive before. Makes those reduction gears seem cheap in comparison.

I never got to the point in the buyback process where they had a dollar figure to put in front of me.

 

Tool now won't arrive until Monday, so no car this weekend. Not like I had anywhere to go, but just getting out of the house even to pick up a car is a good diversion.

They seem to be selecting the cheapest and slowest shipping for these things. Currently the thing was upstate somewhere. The dealer does have a tracking number for this one - she said she had to drag it out of them to get that much.

 

It looks like today is the day that I get the new battery installed. They must have just rolled the car into a service bay - it now responds to BlueLink commands, and I can again see the SOC (hadn't been able to do this since August). Old battery currently has 34% SOC (2 months ago it had 38%). The dealer had told me they would bill Hyundai 4-hours for the job...

Picking up the car will be a little complicated. The car has been down there long enough that the tags have expired. So I need to remember to attach the new stickers. And I have a new phone, so I need to pair the new phone to the car. And one of the very first things I will do is a quick scan with SoulEVSpy, and stop at a DCFC on the way home to verify functionality.

It is likely that the inspection stickers have also expired, but this is a Maryland dealer and I am registered in Virginia, so they can't inspect there. I was contemplating re-registering the car in Delaware - this thing with the battery was holding that up that process as well.

 

I just got the car back, so the saga is over. They were also able to apply the update for the recall, so I won't have to go back for that.

Tomorrow I am going to crawl underneath and look at the stickers on the battery so I can see when it was made.

 

The dealer was kind enough to charge to 100% before I left, so I will have to drive around a bit to get it down to something like 70 as a starting point. Of course these days it is actually kind of nice to get out of the house even if it is for a pointless drive to nowhere. My Juicebox will give a nice graph of a charging session. I might not get to this until the weekend however. The only DCFC around here are 50kW - next week I will be back in DC, and I can go to EA to see how things go on that end.

The one thing they *didn't* do is reset the service reminder. Literally on the way home, I started getting alerts that it is time to bring the car in for 7500 mile service (right as the odometer turned 7500 miles). Hoping that this is something that can just punch into the computer - it is a 1-hour drive to get to the dealer, and another hour back.