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Yesterday it was sub-zero and I preheated the car before we set off. Within 5 minutes we were on the motorway, where we drove at a steady 70mph (actual) for an hour. The engine never entered Parallel mode, staying in Series the whole journey, even when we turned off onto slower roads. I tried...

The 3-pin plug on our charger cable has started getting hot while charging; it's not meltingly so or too hot to handle, but it's warmer than I'd like. We only use it occasionally as we usually use our untethered chargepoint and cable. I understand why this is likely to be happening, but what can...

I was under the impression that once the ICE was running, the car would be powering the generator and charging the battery - subject to the usual limits of battery level, temperature and throttle position. But I was having a discussion with someone who claims that the engine note drops when they...

You know it's getting bad when the spammers are being spammed! :shock:

I had to park on a steep grass verge at a recent party, so I stuck the 4WD lock on before reversing up onto the verge. Of course, the 4WD lock button is one of the few (?only) buttons that remembers its setting when the car is switched off :roll: and I later drove home with it still in 4WD. I...

I've searched for an answer but can't find a suitable thread. My usage has changed, and I managed to set the timers (individually) so that the charge timer and the preheating timer were starting at the same time for a couple of weeks. I realised that the car wasn't warmed properly, but it took...

I got accosted by a fellow who'd just bought an Outlander and wanted to know how reliable I'd found ours. He mentioned that he was only going to do 5k miles a year, and I said that the PHEV should be ideal for that. It was only then that he said he'd bought a diesel as the dealer had said the...

When we first got our PHEV a year ago, I tried playing with the settings and seeing what happened under various scenarios. One thing I checked was the amount of regen available under the various 'B' modes, both when just lifting off and when braking. I found that barking under B0 gave me a few...

Recently we've been charging our Zoe and PHEV sharing the same charging point at home. Typically the Zoe gets first dibs, and then the PHEV gets plugged in when it's full, or the following morning. One day I got in the PHEV and the battery didn't seem to have charged any more, despite being...

On a long trip last weekend, I got to thinking about the relative merits of just leaving the PHEV to do its own thing vs managing the charging via the buttons while on a motorway. Once the battery is empty, it goes into the hysteresis loop, constantly charging and emptying the battery. I...

Our car is back at the dealer after a recent bout of warm weather showed that the a/c wasn't managing to cool the air much. After regassing, they've discovered a leak in the condenser radiator. Is there anything I can do to stop this happening again?

Sorry if this has been answered before - I have searched through the forum, but "ICE" "engine" and "start" are too common for the search engine and I can't find anything in the first few pages... We have just bought a 2015 4hs. This morning the ICE started when I turned the car on even though...

I have looked through previous threads, but haven't been able to find much related to this. Just picked up my 2015 GX4hs today, and I've been trying to connect the Remote app to it. I'm struggling to work out which app I need to start with, as it talks about 10 and 14 digit passwords, and the...

Noob here. I have searched through several pages of posts for an answer, but apologies if it's been asked before We're looking to buy a PHEV, but it's likely to be a 2015 model with 30-40k miles. I've looked at a couple on regular forecourts and the batteries are almost always near flat, so...