Meanwhile on the IPC- Instrument Panel Cluster. Big red turtle icon reports Limited Power Mode. Of course, this requires removal of the HV battery from the car and a detailed inspection of the third-party installation.
Service Charging System on Fiat 500e RallyCross
It is a lot of hard work to remove the HV battery out of the Fiat 500e. Fortunately, our prior experience does the job neatly. On the first try, the fault is located and no further issues found. Service Charging System solved.
We have another HV battery to be patched tomorrow, so I don’t have time to write more. Preparations are underway. To be continued …
We are proud to announce thatfiatservice.eu has become the official diagnostic support group to manage Fiat 500e for Rallycross Electric Races. Fiat 500e is qualified as a vehicle accepted by the RallycrosseN group – Electric Stock Cars.
For stock vehicles, a basic requirement of the FIA (Federation Internationale de l’Automobile) is an internal roll cage.
Fiat 500e roll cage
The company sbse.pl is responsible for the design and construction of the safety cage and created the interior protective coating. You have to admit that they did a beautiful job.
Fiat 500e RallyCross support
Fiat 500e RallyCross – The FIA also requires vehicles be outfitted with special lights, that inform the track staff about the condition of the electric vehicle. This made possible with fiatservice.eu technical support, working together with the engineers from Eliemen Racing .
fiat 500e racing lights
It turned out that our intervention was needed immediately to diagnose issues on the first two cars. Received three weeks ago, the HV batteries turned out to be completely dead. They had newly regenerated HV Battery packages from a competing company. The first had the symptom of damage as, of course, not switching on. Then showing 0% to 47% State of Charge on IPC indicating an overly discharged state.
Lifting and opening the HV housing revealed the problem. It turned out that the HV battery had broken cells. They were self-discharging. This condition should never leave a company that has undertaken the remanufacturing.
Despite our efforts to build one battery out of two, it was not possible to collect enough modules in good condition. Unfortunately, this reconstruction will require additional cells from a third HV packet, as well as re-checking all battery capacity measurements. Again, this is unacceptable with newly reconditioned units.
HV Battery rebuild
The second car had a problem with lost body settings. After successful re-programming, it turned out that the programmed ignition key had also been lost. These related problems were both quickly resolved.
