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Weird Engine Cut-Out Bug


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Hey all,

3 months and around 4k miles on the car, and had the first real oddity at the weekend.

The car was parked overnight at a hotel, and when we set-off the engine started while I was in P and appeared to rev a little higher than usual (enough to be noticeable).

I rolled out of the car-park and through the side roads without noticing any issues, but wasn't going quick.

When i pulled out onto the main road I had absolutely no acceleration at all. I planted the accelerator and nothing happened apart from a slow climb up to around 25 mph.

Looking at the hybrid display, the car was running on Battery with no engine input. No matter what I did with the accelerator the engine wouldn't kick in. Luckily it wasn't a busy road, so I pulled in and turned off the car. Turned it back on again and all was fine again.

It's behaved since, but it was a little unnerving - and there were no faults/error lights when the problem was occurring.

Has this happened to anyone else, and does anyone know how to fire up the engine without stopping the car?

Craig

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Craig: I am unable to offer you an explanation, but something not wholly dissimilar once happened to me.

Very early one icy morning I started the car and, not wanting to wake the neighbours, immediately pressed the EV

button. When I took my foot off the brake the car did not gently move off as usual, and nor did it do so when I pressed

on the accelerator. When I put my foot back on the brake, it felt loose and inactive. Having checked that I had not

accidentally put the car in N, I turned the power off. Satisfied that I had done nothing wrong or out of sequence, I

gathered my thoughts and re-started the car. To my relief, it moved off normally and drove perfectly thereafter. All

this probably took less than half a minute. Nothing similar has happened again, including when I move off after

pressing the EV button, and I still wonder whether I may not myself have suffered some kind of momentary cognitive

lapse with the car being blameless.

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