Recall 196 now shows on US Hyundai Recall website..

No kidding. I could drive my car into my dealership in flames and they'd tell me to make an appointment.

 

This is sadly too funny but true. I had a similar experience when they buggered up my motor wiring harness (unkown to me at the time) during the motor swap and the car would not go into any gear intermittently. After by some fluke getting it started on a Saturday morning I roll into the my dealers service entrance. I explain my woes and express my worry in an urgent sort of manner that the car is somewhat non functional only to be cooly greeted with " Oh, we can get you in on Thursday". I was a little dumbfounded but as I had already turned my car off I knew there was a good chance it would not come back to life again. After confirming it was dead I handed the keys to the service advisor and suggested the car might need more urgent attention if he wanted it to clear the service lane. Honestly up until I wrote an unflattering letter to Hyundai corporate complaining about my experiences they treated me fairly poorly. Since then its suddenly personal calls from service manager, loaner cars that were impossible to get before and valet service, weird?

 

So far, haven’t found anyplace in Maine who actually doing the recall. Guess I won’t be an early adopter.

 

the only differences i found after was that my setting to 80% max was replaced by 100%, and it was no longer in eco but in normal. i easily reset both to my preferences, so no big deal...


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Literally just finished mine. Nothing changed. All settings, GOM regen etc.were untouched. I sometimes wonder if it's not just the garage guys fiddling around with the cool EV in the shop and not the software at all.

 

I just got mine done today (upstate NY). It only took about an hour, so apparently my battery does not need replacement. I always charge to 100% and will continue to do so.

 

Thumbs up!

 

My regen settings got reset ( auto disabled, default for comfort mode set to level 1)

 

Update: 2020 | Dec 2019 Build | Bricked after the BMS update on Nov 09. I Just received a phone call today that Hyundai is shipping a new battery from South Korea and should arrive in 2 weeks with another week to install it. I mentioned that I want to be sure that it is a 2021 battery that is being sent since they apparently are not part of the recall. So the answer is of course it is. Is there any way to know what the build of the battery is?

 

Yes, there is a sticker that is visible on the battery. To see it, you kind of need to crawl under the car behind the rear wheels - on the drivers side look up and you will see several stickers. This is what I had on mine after the battery replacement - it is the topmost sticker that is of interest. That has the ROM ID and the date of manufacture.



It sounds like Hyundai is more communicative than they were with me. For me it was always "back ordered" until one day out of the blue the dealer discovered that it had been shipped from California.

 

Thank you very much! Do you know if the new battery is different chemistry or electronics that it is currently not susceptible to the vulnerability? I hope you are satisfied with the repair, only good luck moving forward

 

Last night after getting the recall work done, I plugged my car in overnight, it was at 33%. I got the usual notice in the morning that charging was complete. When I opened blue link around 9 am, it told me the battery was at 100% based on the last update at 4 a.m. I refreshed and it told me that the battery was at 99%. somehow I lost 1% between 4 am and 9 am.

But then, just a few minutes ago I got another notice that charging was complete. My car is now at 100% again. That means that the car and charging station kept communicating after the battery reached 100% and "topped off" when it dropped down to 99%. At least that's what I think it means. This has never happened before. I always leave the car plugged in after charging on the assumption that there's no communication going on and charging won't start up again. I have unplugged the car to make sure it doesn't top off again. Has anyone else experienced this?

I'll follow my usual procedure next time I charge to see if it happens again. If it does, then obviously I'm going to have to change my habits and start unplugging the car as soon as I wake up. Maybe setting up a "stop charge" time would work too, I don't know.

 

Yes. I've seen this. I don't see the problem. What's the concern?

 

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Yes this happens all the time now since the recall software up date. It is also happening to a friend of mine who also had the up date. I don't leave the car plugged in so its not a problem for me but it really annoys my friend as he would usually leave it plugged in. It either related to a Bluelink up date or the Recall update. I don't think it actually dropping a percentage point on the battery voltage I just think it detecting a very tiny change and waking up the charger only to find it is instantly back at 100 % ( or what ever percentage you charge it to as the same thing happens at lower percentage charge completion as well) annoying yes, stupid yes. A problem, probably not.

 

I think it is a problem. First, there's no benefit, so why is the software letting it happen. Second, I don't think it's healthy for a battery to constantly add a trickle charge, whether from 99% to 100% or 79% to 80% (if you set the car the car for a max charge of 80%). I believe each charging cycle can cause degradation, so its harming the battery with no benefit. Third, it can be dangerous. It makes me uncomfortable to know that my car can be constantly drawing power. The possibility of something going wrong increases if a connection is kept open when it isn't necessary, or repeatedly reopens for an unneeded charge.

And imagine this happening if you leave your car plugged in for days at an airport or train station. Every day the car will initiate a new charge every time it drops down 1%. That's crazy.

 

I guess your entitled to your angst and beliefs. Outside of bursting into flames I couldn't care less what my car does when I'm not in it.

 

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I don't think its actually charging I think its just checking the charge every so often. I know I have let my car sit a couple of weeks with out driving or charging and haven't see a 1% drop. So I doubt it dropping 1 % every couple of hours. That would be 12% a day. I could be wrong but that how I see it.

 

There's just no basis for that theory in the context presented and I don't see a problem here.

 

My car was unplugged at the dealer for a month and the charge barely budged. Also, Bluelink will show the car at 100% one minute and 99% upon refreshing and then 100% later. It's 1%. Seems a piddling concern to me. I'm not concerned that my plugged in TV's always "on". Nobody seems concerned that out 12 volt batteries are being topped up regularly. Hell, I'm typing this while I'm holding a lithium ion battery in my hand!