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TLDR: Got 'Stop Safely Now' message. Doesn't appear to be related to HVBJB issue. Dealer visit on Thursday 8/11.
Note: I started this in it's own thread because it doesn't seem like it's an HVBJB failure
I'm going to lay out all of the different variables/facts from my experience in the hopes that it might help someone in the future.
- This past weekend I drove to Naples from Miami (~2 hours) on Friday night. Upon arrival, the garage outlet that typically charges my Job 2 2021 Premium Standard Range RWD at ~22 mph was charging at ~12 mph. I went to go check the charger and noted that the Ford charger had an amber + blue light on, noting reduced charging speed, possibly due to overheating (FL, Summer, but charging unit didn't seem hot, just warm)
- Saturday morning, I charged the car at Electrify America at a max of around 80kWh until getting to 80%. I drove back to Miami charged, then back to Naples a couple of hours later. (Soccer game in Miami, lol).
- When I got back to Naples I hooked into the same plug in the garage from Friday night and got the same amber + blue light and reduced charging. I was going to need to drive back to Miami on Saturday night so I went over to the same EA station from the morning and charged up to 70% then plugged back in garage.
- I left the car charging there for 5-6 hours until I got a charge fault at around 7PM. I had a scheduled departure time for 8PM to prep the cabin temperature for our drive back to Miami. at 7:50PM I get to the car and unplug the car (note, wasn't charging due to charge fault). Upon attempting to turn the car on, I got a message on the dash saying to 'Stop Safely Now' and the car was stuck on Accessory Mode.
- I was surprised by this for a few reasons. The first being, "this only happens to people on the internet and could never happen to me!", and the second being, "My car is a RWD standard range car, this is rare even among the rare instances of HVBJB failure.
- After brief moments of panic, I reached out to some people on this forum and they (notably @Gimme_my_MME) helped me with some high level trouble shooting, ultimately determining that the fault I received was due to too many start attempts, not HVBJB failure. I can assure you all that I wasn't mashing the start button when I got the failure.
- I don't have a working theory as to why this happened, but that day was out of the ordinary because I DC charged 3 times, had slow charging the garage followed by a fault, then used the scheduled departure feature before another long drive.
After about 20 minutes and when @Gimme_my_MME informed me that it didn't look like HVBJB failure, I went back to the car and successfully turned it on and drove back home 2 hours (of which 1 hour is at 80mph+ to Miami). No issues with the car since then but am going to the dealer on Thursday to have them check the car and charger out.
Note: I started this in it's own thread because it doesn't seem like it's an HVBJB failure
I'm going to lay out all of the different variables/facts from my experience in the hopes that it might help someone in the future.
- This past weekend I drove to Naples from Miami (~2 hours) on Friday night. Upon arrival, the garage outlet that typically charges my Job 2 2021 Premium Standard Range RWD at ~22 mph was charging at ~12 mph. I went to go check the charger and noted that the Ford charger had an amber + blue light on, noting reduced charging speed, possibly due to overheating (FL, Summer, but charging unit didn't seem hot, just warm)
- Saturday morning, I charged the car at Electrify America at a max of around 80kWh until getting to 80%. I drove back to Miami charged, then back to Naples a couple of hours later. (Soccer game in Miami, lol).
- When I got back to Naples I hooked into the same plug in the garage from Friday night and got the same amber + blue light and reduced charging. I was going to need to drive back to Miami on Saturday night so I went over to the same EA station from the morning and charged up to 70% then plugged back in garage.
- I left the car charging there for 5-6 hours until I got a charge fault at around 7PM. I had a scheduled departure time for 8PM to prep the cabin temperature for our drive back to Miami. at 7:50PM I get to the car and unplug the car (note, wasn't charging due to charge fault). Upon attempting to turn the car on, I got a message on the dash saying to 'Stop Safely Now' and the car was stuck on Accessory Mode.
- I was surprised by this for a few reasons. The first being, "this only happens to people on the internet and could never happen to me!", and the second being, "My car is a RWD standard range car, this is rare even among the rare instances of HVBJB failure.
- After brief moments of panic, I reached out to some people on this forum and they (notably @Gimme_my_MME) helped me with some high level trouble shooting, ultimately determining that the fault I received was due to too many start attempts, not HVBJB failure. I can assure you all that I wasn't mashing the start button when I got the failure.
- I don't have a working theory as to why this happened, but that day was out of the ordinary because I DC charged 3 times, had slow charging the garage followed by a fault, then used the scheduled departure feature before another long drive.
After about 20 minutes and when @Gimme_my_MME informed me that it didn't look like HVBJB failure, I went back to the car and successfully turned it on and drove back home 2 hours (of which 1 hour is at 80mph+ to Miami). No issues with the car since then but am going to the dealer on Thursday to have them check the car and charger out.
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