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Originally Posted by DrVenture
...report back whatever you find out. Don't leave us hanging.  |
Yes indeed I will certainly update you. I really appreciate all of your advice. My local dealer couldn't get me a loaner for a week (no doubt they want to give me a new i5 to tempt me..), so I will drop it off on 9/4. The service advisor was encouraging, saying that his techs are the best and ought to be able to narrow down and fix the actual issue rather than just replacing everything. We will see.
He also said he thought the compressor code may have been a symptom and not the root cause. ...which reminds me: I had the previous technician give me the old compressor... I was surprised to see that it looks absolutely
100% pristine brand new. Nothing at all like the run-down compressor in the above video. It's easy to look at it and think that it's probably fine.
p.s. I just tested the aux heater and it does not seem to be heating (as expected if its EME fuse is blown). I hadn't noticed a correlation with the heater and the earlier e-drive issue. I'll have to report back on whether the e-drive problem is still there now. In general the e-drive is now very unreliable, presumably due to inability to cool itself.