Clarity Issues

On my Clarity when the climate is set to automatic those functions are not available for selecting. The car determines all of the settings, you just give it a temperature.

 

I wonder if that's a high humidity thing. The Volt turned on A/C for humidity detection (the Volt humidity sensor is in the center driver's rearview mirror).

 

I am having an annoying issue using the remote climate thought. It causes the vehicle Bluetooth to turn on, forcing my phone to connect to it. Now my calls all go to the car, when no one is I side of it.

 

As frustrating as this experience must have been, especially over the Holiday, it may be a blessing in disguise. They will probably do a no cost careful check over the entire car, and might notice something else. Good luck and tell us how it goes.

 

So annoying is it allows anyone within about 50 feet of my car to connect to my car via Bluetooth when I turn the remote climate on. Honda insist this is normal behavior.

 

I am assuming the battery was at least partway charged? I didn't see you confirm that bit of information. It should have still been able to draw power over the L2 charger.

Also, did you confirm your heater works while driving (with no gas)? To make sure it isn't an issue with the heater itself?

 

I believe he mentioned when driving heat does come out of the lower vents. So this seems to like and issue with the remote climate system.

 

I've had my Clarity for about a month and the remote climate seems to work fine regardless of what I have the system set to when I turn the car off. I generally leave it on full auto at 67-68 degrees, and in the mornings the cabin temp starts at around 35-40 degrees and ends at around 75 degrees (per the app). I've been using the schedule so it comes on before I need to leave and generally runs most of the 30 cycle before I leave.

One thing I've had happen several times though (which may or may not be related to the remote climate) is when I get in the car and start it, the audio functions are frozen - only FM works, but XM and pandora are dead. It's happened a few times this week, each time I had been using the remote climate before getting in the car. It comes back on later in the day after it's been sitting at work, but it's irritating. I'm trying to isolate the circumstances so the dealer might be able to troubleshoot, but it is not easily replicated.


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I found this in a review of the Clarity PHEV; interestingly enough, it's a review at the InsideEVs news site:

In its standard operation, the Clarity runs on full-electric power as often as possible, though if you’re aggressive on the throttle, the gas engine will kick on for assist. An “Econ” mode reduces the engine’s tendency to supplant power, and even decreases the effort of the car’s interior heating and cooling systems, to deliver the most efficient drive programming possible.​

[Underlining added for emphasis]

I doubt that is what is causing the problem, but it's the only thing I could find on the 'net even remotely related to the problem. I'm guessing the Clarity PHEV is so new that there aren't many owners posting about it online yet?

 

With L2 (actually car is charging at 80%), press brake, ON button, no heat (I have been pressing three bars seat warmer on quick visits to the car)

ON button, no heat (there are at least two different non-driving power up modes, I need to re-read that part) {okay, pressing the ON button once (no brake) puts it in accessory, twice supposedly turns on all electrical gear, I get climate fan (all speeds), but still no heat.}

But my climate pre-conditioning does work - Still plugged in as before (no changes) - Sitting in the car (car is OFF), press lock remote, press and hold climate, get 3 flashes of lights, followed by 3 more. nothing for about a minute, then some slight air flow, then full bore warm air (possibly pre-heats some heating elements somewhere). Only stayed for a few minutes but the air was already up to about 68F (not the cabin yet, just the beginning of warm air). Opening the door to exit turned off the climate pre-heat.

I keep looking, the only other weird mode is car wash power saving mode, I think on page 386, but I think you would get a note in the driver display. Oh well, lets see what the dealer says, unless you or someone solves the mystery before then.

 

Here is a sample chargepoint curve (32A EVSE charge chord) for a climate pre-condition cycle from 26F ambient to about 75F cabin temp:

(unplugged it and plugged in again just before 11am to begin a new graph, so it took a little power for something before the climate cycle began. It was plugged in prior to that.)

 

We are all curious to hear the outcome now. Wish we could have solved it, going to feel pretty silly if it's just a setting. In the Volt, esp. Gen 1, when odd things happened, step one was to disconnect the 12 V battery, let it sit, then cold-boot the car by reconnecting the 12 V battery. Also, may odd Volt problems were ultimately connected to the 12 V battery or direct or indirect 12V battery connections. (not suggesting that boot here).

Suppose it could be an open wire, bad connection, one of those plastic connectors someone forgot to plug-in, or did not seat correctly, a bad or bent pin, a bad board or fuse as you noted earlier, guess the list is very long.

I suppose the only other thing to try short term might be if there is some option like restore all factory settings? (may not be worth the try if you lose too many custom settings)

I'm getting my backup sensors Wednesday, hope it goes better than my ongoing Pirelli tire fiasco. Here's to Wednesday!

 

Can only use my Toyota experience, but remote management of climate simply turned the system on to whatever it was set at (including off) when you last used it. So as someone mentioned, set the heat high, get it off 'eco' - in essence have it working the way you want it before you shut down. Then - as you did - see if it still doesn't work. I was ALWAYS disappointed in the Toyota Prius' remote climate system. It worked at best randomly. Undependable most of the time. And at others, I'd forgotten to leave the AC or Heat in the on position before leaving the car. Good luck.