Lord Voltermore: but this is a serious damn problem.
I can’t imagine this happening out in the middle of „nowhere.”
I’m not sure whether
my previous post was understood correctly (perhaps due to my poor English – apologies), but this is honestly the worst issue I’ve encountered with the Jazz so far.
Now I know that in such a case it is necessary to use a jump starter power bank and drive somewhere to recharge the battery.
But as I wrote, the car completely locks up without any prior warning. The engine, gear lever, brakes, and traction battery are blocked. Main display off. In the end, I couldn't even lock the car.
The only thing that "worked" was a series of lockout warning messages on the driver's display.
As I wrote, this is my first hybrid, I didn't want to get involved in anything myself, so as not to mess something up even more. The Honda service is 3 km from me, the car is under warranty, call Honda Assistance. Honda Assistance couldn't help, they called a tow truck, which took my car to a Honda service center - the easiest and fastest solution to the problem at that moment and everything is free. It wasn’t until I went to the Honda service centre that the mechanic clarified and explained everything to me.
In a “normal” car, it's easy to tell - the starter barely turns over, the dashboard lights go out - you take the starter power bank connected to the battery and the car starts.
Yes, maybe I was under the mistaken impression that the traction battery would somehow replace the small 12V battery if needed. Now I know that I will always have to recharge the small 12V battery before and after winter.
It's also possible that it was discharged because I drove very short distances in the winter with the heated seats on (But it doesn’t show the status of the 12V battery anywhere!). It could also be that it was already half discharged when I bought the car from the dealer where it had been sitting for some time.
But it probably drains the most during updates, when Wi-Fi is on, as the mechanic told me, you need to have the engine running.
But what annoys me the most is that you don't get any advance warning at all, as
I wrote above.
