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Such transparent and detailed reporting is what is needed to actually understand the real problems and the take steps to overcome them. Thank you

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Thanks Priyans! Keep up the good work. May God bless you!

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I have never taken our Nexon below 25% and my belief basis other inputs is not to drain the battery if possible. So far, touch wood, no issues of any sort, 14th month and 8100kms later. Except a pair of front tyres that collapsed in the first 2500kms and a shoddy job for the home 3.3 connection.

My hunch is that cars of visibly gullible customers are used as spare part bins. There was a sea change in the dealer attitude after I started going myself, instead of via pickup/drop or via the spouse, and let the dealer workshop know that I had been driving EVs since late '90s.

One more point - service and warranty repairs are best done at the non-selling dealer. Multiple reasons for this.

Good luck. Hope TaMo does not lose goodwill of early adopters. I know two people who have moved on from Nexon EV to other EV brands quietly. We may be doing the same soon. Sad, but true, no other reason than after sales dis-service.

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So one generic error message for multiple possible errors

Even the Reva electric car company showed different error codes in 2013 in the e2o.

This is problem with Tata, Mahindra who have sold electric cars using imported components and when diagnosing issues they just replace components and hope it solves the issue. The root cause is not known.

The Reva electric car company in 2012, 2013 had a more local component ecosystem which ensured more control on repairs. But ofcourse once Mahindra took over they destroyed every advance made by the Reva team. And in 2023, here we go taking 5 steps backward.

Thanks for documenting this Priyans.

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One of the weirdest tips/tricks is to disconnect the 12V aux battery and re-connect it after 10-15 minutes. All this does is wipe out the errors, not fix them, which makes things worse. Avoidable.

One safe practice I follow is to hard reset the Harman system very often. I use it only as a radio. That open USB port and constant blue-tooth pairing risks are both unhealthy. Since we do not get OTA Updates for anything in our Nexon EVs, there is a 6-month gap (service interval) between updates - and that too, if the Service Centre is able to update a specific EV correctly.

https://us.norton.com/blog/mobile/bluetooth-security

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Hey. I got the same error thrice on my 2020 Nexon EV. On both occasions it was after wading through flooded roads (it came repeatedly). I was getting the error on down slope specifically during the first time. Finally I had to diagnose it myself and instructed the service person to check the HV cable and connector. While the pack may be IP67 rate, often the weak points as cable connector and cables themselves.

On the third occasion, I was clueless why it happened. It got fixed after I removed the 12V battery and put it back. Basically reset the faults.

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