Golf GTE Hybrid - The perfect tool to sell "black" under "green", at the price of gold. Perfect propaganda that the "expensive" and "unprofitable" battery is rewritten for the entire EV market in the last 10 years, because it is indeed expensive, but on a hybrid. Unreasonably expensive per kWh and unreasonably poorly designed. A hybrid playing EV and stereotypically doing media damage to the EV industry. The third next to the GTE coming to us, and very likely not the last. We rejected inquiries about this vehicle about 5-6 times. This one arrived with a defect internal insulation, which could be any internal high-voltage component. After testing the system and the junction box part, everything pointed to the battery, which was already changed once under warranty in 2019, and the new one outside the warranty is 11,500 EUR. In order to dismantle the battery, the complete fart pipe must be removed and then the battery. The screws rot on the "fart girl" rot. After opening the battery, there were no traces of water and antifreeze, but we isolated a puncture on one of the cells. After a closer inspection, it appears that the protective sheath of one cell on the fourth block has broken. At first a harmless problem, at the second a very dangerous condition. If, by any chance, the sheath breaks in another place, i.e. on another cell, a short circuit and possible ignition will occur. We safely saved that block for repair, and we installed an already repaired and balanced block in the battery system, which we added balanced to the rest of the battery system. Everything cleaned assembled first tested then everything opened again, glued and finalized. All tests passed and ready for the owner's new "savings", and we are eagerly awaiting them. We are also working on when everyone switches to a hybrid with diesel, we open a corner for "sponsors" and a boss for "savings". Clean gasoline or clean electricity if you want to avoid it. We recommend to fellow "hybrid victims" mechanics to avoid servicing these vehicles, there is a dangerous possibility that you will have a "it worked when I arrived" failure. So a warm recommendation, go pure petrol or pure ev, avoid hybrids.
Video of complete repair:
Failure: P0AA600, P0E7400, P0D9100,
Part Number: 5Q0915590R, 5Q0915591E
Battery Panasonic 25Ah, 8kWh, Made in Japan
OEM price: 11000 EUR (VAT included)
EV Clinic fine price*
*Diesel is better - 20,000 euros
*Hybrid is better - 35,000 euros
*Hybrid is crap - 2000-5000 euros
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