Mileage: 3450
Life with an Ora Funky Cat: Month 4
Only one teensy half can cease a complete machine from working – 24 Could
Unusual. I can’t get this 50kW CCS plug into the Funky Cat’s charging port. Let’s strive the 43kW Sort 2. Nope, similar downside: it goes 90% of the best way in however doesn’t clunk into place and the charger then can’t talk with the automotive. That is irritating.
We’ve already wasted half an hour of a wonderful Sunday afternoon in search of a charger, fruitlessly making an attempt to scrabble collectively sufficient electrons for a half-lap of the M25, and my persistence is working skinny by this level. Finest I don’t quote my response verbatim right here.
My companion, extra level-headed than me and clearly much less personally invested within the scenario, having been scrolling by Instagram for the earlier 10 minutes, takes a calmer and extra logical method.
I hadn’t even thought of Googling, assuming the Funky Cat’s newness and rarity meant the boards had been unlikely to be a goldmine of useful info from skilled house owners. However as luck would have it, some poor soul had lately been on this very boat – and in far more perilous circumstances.
“Pressing assist wanted,” reads the put up she discovered on an EV discussion board. “I’m on vacation in Cornwall and the pin contained in the charging portal appears to be locked, so I can’t absolutely join any charger. It normally displaces into the opening within the charging cable when pushed in. I have to go residence on Wednesday and can’t cost!”
Instantly the prospect of me being a bit late for a household barbecue appears barely extra trivial.
Anyway, that is good intel. Armed with this data, we goal our cellphone torches into the port and spy the offending pin – an offensively tiny half, contemplating the quantity of problem it’s inflicting.
One commenter on the discussion board had advised disconnecting the 12V battery to reset the system and clear any bugs, however I’m loath to try this as a result of I don’t wish to restore all of the settings to their manufacturing facility defaults and my 14mm socket is at residence, by now a 20-minute stroll away.
