Recent content by vancouverboy

I'm pretty sure it was an update they did, but I think they applied the update to my car in the spring so I didn't connect the new behavior to the service right away. Once I did notice and notified the dealer they just kept telling me that everything was fine. Wish I had some options to shop...

I don't think a class action would get traction. But for me the problem is that the car worked exactly like I would have expected when I purchased it, and then something changed after a couple of years. I've been told it was a system update that changed it, or that a process (DBCAM) needs to...

Yes, I drop my son off at daycare on my way to work and have to stop for about 30seconds while I take him inside and the ICE starts up again when I go back out. I suppose I could leave the car running, but I don't like doing that when my car is out of sight.

That doesn't really seem to matter either. I've tried disabling everything to try to avoid having the engine kick in. Once I even drove it down the block at <10km/h until I could coast down the hill, which did actually work but as soon as I even touched the gas pedal to try to maintain my...

I am with you. When I bought my Outlander the big selling feature was that it had an EV mode. For the first 2 years it was great as I rarely needed to use gas at all for my 30 min commute, except for the odd day where I had to run extra errands. Usually I would burn off a tank every 3 months...

That's possible as I can't hear or feel the engine running when it appears to go on and off on its own, I just assumed it was operating at low RPM and couldn't feel it switching. But then why in some cases does the same scenario cause the engine to rev up when I touch the accelerator? In those...

When I first experienced/noticed this behavior I thought it could be trying to warm itself up or lubricate the engine before shutting down again, sort of like you're suggesting. But if it were that it seems weird that it would turn the engine on and off for 3 minutes rather than run for a...

I just got my 2018 Outlander PHEV about 6 weeks ago and I've noticed that when I climb hills or hit the accelerator a bit too hard that the engine kicks in, as it should, but after I've finished climbing the hill or no longer need the extra power the engine will continue to run intermittently...