Kona Bluelink charge limit removed after buyback..

That's not a bug, that's a feature of the bluelink app; access does not change when ownership changes.

If that access doesn't get revoked, you could get a huge discount when you repurchase it by showing the uninformed dealer that it only has 10% or 20% of expected range.

 

Here's a concern: Data erasure of your former car of contacts, routes, and other data. I think Hyundai provides a procedure to erase but I have not read it yet. All cars, not just Hyundai, store and aggregate your contacts if allowed via bluetooth.

Your car is spying on you is a description of the problem but does not discuss solutions. https://theintercept.com/2021/05/03/car-surveillance-berla-msab-cbp/

 

My car was bought back in December, and I still get the occasional BlueLink message. I still get the reminders to come in for "service" to set the charge limit to 80%. The last I saw, it was at an auction lot in Manheim PA.

 

Interesting. Mine was parked 60 miles away for two weeks before I turned it in two days ago. After the first week the app said it had shut down the response function to save the 12v battery, and I couldn't see it any more.
Yesterday I got a message that someone had hit the panic button. Guess the dealer techs haven't been trained on that remote control yet.

Right now the limit is still at 80%, and a good thing because they're charging it up. I wonder if they are inspecting it to see if it meets their criterion for needing a new battery, or if they can wholesale it out right away.

It's going to stop charging in 45 minutes when it hits my peak time-of-use rate period. I think I'll leave it alone and see if they can figure it out.

So yours didn't shut down the tracking?

 

Right now I can't check - it has been inactive for too long. They charged it back in May, and the email I got had the address in it.

 

I wonder if they're is a way to figure out where and how they're going to auction it off. I would seriously be interested in bidding on it. I would buy it back with a new battery installed and it would be my wife's car for a two EV household. I would have a different EV at that point.

 

I've often seen the charge limit showing incorrectly as 100%/100% in the Bluelink app when it was really 80%. Sometimes refreshing the data shows it correctly. For example, after the dealer charged my surrendered car up to 80%, the limit showed as 100%, and it still did this morning. But I refreshed the car's data, and now it's reading 80% again.

A quick google turns up this explanation of buying as an individual at a wholesale auction. Possibly they or another similar company could answer your questions. Let us know.

 

@Toolworker Hm, very interesting. I will look into that.

 

Same with my C-Max Energi; the Ford app kept me connected after I sold it to Vroom until I disconnected it after the used car lot in Baltimore sold it.

 

why did you surrender it?

 

It's very simple. The Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. I still get emails from my Mazda dealer that my Mazda is due for service. I have not owned that car for 3 Years. Ignore the emails or letters.

 

Haha, I still get that for my old Prius, haven't owned it for 2.5 years now.

 

Yes interesting. I’ll be surrendering mine in couple weeks. Final paperwork being prepared.

 

I got a new BlueLink alert today - someone pushed the panic button. Car is now at this address "5260 Main St, East Petersburg, PA 17520". It looks like there is a Hyundai dealer there.