Electric traction system fault
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 2:00 pm
Hi all,
Just want to start raising this in case others experience it. I had a warning (quite insistent audio and visual on the dash) saying electric traction fault when i turned on my car after an overnight charge. Strangely it still let me engage forwards and start moving but i didn’t go more than a cars length initially. Obviously panicked a little, turned the car off and went inside to look it up.
When i came back to it a couple of minutes later it started up fine and 2 x 70mile commutes have been uneventful and normal.
I’ve done some searching and it seems to be an issue on a number of e-208s which is the same general drivetrain architecture. They smell a recall coming so beed to report it. On their forums they’re just starting to log issues but no fix found and no actual problems with the drivetrain. It seems to be a fault reporting problem and some mention of a 12v battery problem. I’ve not gone back to garage with it yet as there’s no active fault but I’ll email customer care. Has anyone else had this with the e corsa?
Thanks
Nathan
Just want to start raising this in case others experience it. I had a warning (quite insistent audio and visual on the dash) saying electric traction fault when i turned on my car after an overnight charge. Strangely it still let me engage forwards and start moving but i didn’t go more than a cars length initially. Obviously panicked a little, turned the car off and went inside to look it up.
When i came back to it a couple of minutes later it started up fine and 2 x 70mile commutes have been uneventful and normal.
I’ve done some searching and it seems to be an issue on a number of e-208s which is the same general drivetrain architecture. They smell a recall coming so beed to report it. On their forums they’re just starting to log issues but no fix found and no actual problems with the drivetrain. It seems to be a fault reporting problem and some mention of a 12v battery problem. I’ve not gone back to garage with it yet as there’s no active fault but I’ll email customer care. Has anyone else had this with the e corsa?
Thanks
Nathan