Replaced the HVBJB - yesterday HVBJB broke

[kennethjk]

As title mentions. In march 2022 I got delivery of a Mach e Extended Range RWD, produced summer / autumn of 2021 (according to dealer). Some time later, around end of summer I believe (2022) I had to take the car in for a replacement of the HVBJB module (here in Norway everyone got recall).

Yesterday after a trip to the shop: “stop safely”, and could not even move the car what so ever (we did try to charge the 12V battery to see if that helped, alas no help).

My use pattern is to drive the car like a granny, keeping it between 20-80%, always connected to charger, almost never fast charging and daily drive of about 140 km (it’s been driven 73 000km).

So, what can we do about it? Is it just to be expected that sooner or later everyone’s car will get this error? As mentioned the HVBJB was replaced, thus I am not confident in the fix. Troublesome too is that the warranty runs out at 100 000 km, which means it will be an huge repair bill when you have to pay for it yourself :/

Yes, sooner or later everyone will experience failure , with newer unit just less frequently.

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[Mache_Nor]

At least as long as Ford paying for the continuous replacement of the module I’m fine. Some guy over in the Norwegian section reminded me that our consumer laws states that parts that has a warranty and is changed within the warranty, get the warranty extended. What this means is that since it’s 5 years or 100 000 km; if it continues to break before that mark that part will forever be changed at Ford’s expense. But if something else breaks or the part now lives for 100 001 km - then me and my wallet will be s-a-d.

 

[Mache_Nor]

Up until now I thought I was immune to this issue. Our Mach-E has been running trouble free for two years.
Well, that ended today.

What year and model, driving range and use pattern? Lastly, was it colder than usually yesterday?

 

[Ghost Ryder]

Wow. So you think there’s only one known member who made 50k miles on an old HVBJB? Never knew it was impacting the vast majority of vehicles. Are you sure about that?

No. What I meant was that there was one member who hvbjb failed at 50k. There are other owners who had more miles and never had their hvbjb fail.

 

[Guss-E 2021]

And everyone with an affected vehicle can expect an eventual failure not everyone with a Mach-E. Mine failed on October 14th at around 22K. My part number confirms I have the "new" contactors.

On a side note, drove home late last night, exhausted and having Blue Cruise was brilliant. It's now below 30°F at night here. My son turned on the heated seat and fell asleep. HVBJB issues are no fun but this car sure is .

 

[gordonf238]

What year and model, driving range and use pattern? Lastly, was it colder than usually yesterday?

2021 AWD Premium Ext Range.
It was 60 degrees when the error showed up, right after I performed a WOT pass on the highway. Something I’ve done hundreds of times. Battery was at around 50%

 

[Mache_Nor]

UPDATE:
Dealer confirmed it was the HVBJB that had died. Fix time? One month to get the part delivered from Ford and 1 full day of work.

The scary part: This replaced part (the third HVBJB) will only have 1 year warranty from the day it is changed (confirmed by the dealer). Good luck everyone's wallets.

 

[Mach-Lee]

UPDATE:
Dealer confirmed it was the HVBJB that had died. Fix time? One month to get the part delivered from Ford and 1 full day of work.

Part should only take 2-5 business days to arrive if ordered correctly. You may want to verify they’ve submitted a COPIS ticket for it, or you’ll be waiting for a long time for no reason.

 

[Mache_Nor]

Part should only take 2-5 business days to arrive if ordered correctly. You may want to verify they’ve submitted a COPIS ticket for it, or you’ll be waiting for a long time for no reason.

It's in Norway, so would suspect there are some other rules here, or? Is there something I can refer to so that it's ordered faster? Not sure what a COPIS ticket is sorry.

 

[Mach-Lee]

It's in Norway, so would suspect there are some other rules here, or? Is there something I can refer to so that it's ordered faster? Not sure what a COPIS ticket is sorry.

Ah didn’t see that, never mind.

 

[sookestang]

At least as long as Ford paying for the continuous replacement of the module I’m fine. Some guy over in the Norwegian section reminded me that our consumer laws states that parts that has a warranty and is changed within the warranty, get the warranty extended. What this means is that since it’s 5 years or 100 000 km; if it continues to break before that mark that part will forever be changed at Ford’s expense. But if something else breaks or the part now lives for 100 001 km - then me and my wallet will be s-a-d.

I don't know I'd want that. I'm 14 days waiting for repair. If I have to do this every two years I'm going to sell the car.

The less my car is hoisted and being worked on the better. Always seems to be mysterious scratches when I get cars back from the dealer.

 

[Addos]

I don't know I'd want that. I'm 14 days waiting for repair. If I have to do this every two years I'm going to sell the car.

The less my car is hoisted and being worked on the better. Always seems to be mysterious scratches when I get cars back from the dealer.

Yeah, I was out my car for a full month when they did my HVBJB, and now the car has rattles ever since they took it apart and put it back together. It really ticks me off that they haven't engineered an actual fix to this problem in newer model year cars. It's almost like they want to build unreliable cars that inconvenience customers when they have to have them taken in and disassembled to repair.

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