Honda Service Express Bulletins for 2018 Clarity PHEV

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Just a possible explanation: Spinning the engine with the engine generator/starter uses electricity (energy). This can in effect dump some juice. A spinning ICE will sound just like a running ICE even if it is off (no fuel injectors turned on). Ford uses this on Fusion and Cmax Energy's to dump excess juice. In fact in Ford Hybrid school the techs had to diagnose a fault based on a diagnostic trouble shooting chart. The first question was " does the engine start?". Well that was the bug. The injectors were disabled but the engine was in essence running/(pumping air) but just spinning. Sounded the same. Just a thought.

Except, my hour meter incremented (inductively coupled to a spark plug coil) and the exhaust manifold was hot. Both observations lead me to believe that the engine was running not just rotating.
Of course it could have been a System Check, but it happened more than once immediately after a full charge with a significant braking event.
So I don’t think it was a coincidence and it seems that my Clarity sometimes starts and runs the engine to somehow attenuate the regen power that the full battery can’t handle.
We desperately need more information from Honda or more observations from owners.
 
Except, my hour meter incremented (inductively coupled to a spark plug coil) and the exhaust manifold was hot. Both observations lead me to believe that the engine was running not just rotating.
Of course it could have been a System Check, but it happened more than once immediately after a full charge with a significant braking event.
So I don’t think it was a coincidence and it seems that my Clarity sometimes starts and runs the engine to somehow attenuate the regen power that the full battery can’t handle.
We desperately need more information from Honda or more observations from owners.
Yes, more information would be great. I find the owners manual seems to leave out "need to know information".
 
I recently purchased a one day subscription to Honda Service Express (https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/logon.aspx) and did some research on the Clarity. Not a lot of information outside of DTC explanations and fixes but more will come with time. Here are some of the more interesting bulletins I found.

Can anyone please advise if these .pdf files were supposed to come with live links embedded, or are they already flattened from the source? I'm trying to go to
Code:
"check for hard error codes"
in Audio System Diagnostics Mode 3841.pdf but it appears to be plain-text, there's no JavaScript or any other form data that I can find in document properties either.
 
None of the PDFs I’ve downloaded from this forum have had active links and neither have the Honda tech docs that people have generously shared after paying for a one day subscription to Honda Tech.
 
Can anyone please advise if these .pdf files were supposed to come with live links embedded, or are they already flattened from the source? I'm trying to go to
Code:
"check for hard error codes"
in Audio System Diagnostics Mode 3841.pdf but it appears to be plain-text, there's no JavaScript or any other form data that I can find in document properties either.

The links are only live inside the Honda Service Website. They are not available in the download PDFs


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