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Today was the day. We drove up to Fisker Marin and the car was ready for delivery. The last communication I had with the dealer was that they were plugging it to charge overnight. When I got there in the morning, I was told that the 220V charging was not working (as reported by others with 6.13) and that the technician was re-flashing the car with 6.13. While we worked through the paperwork, the technician finished up the car and parked it up front. The dealer (Ramin Naimi) was incredibly patient and helpful and sat in the car with me and ran through all the menus on the command center and then sat in the car while we went around the block. Everything was ******-dory and we shook hands and I jumped in the driver's seat and headed off.
The drama started as I got on the highway and tried to accelerate beyond 60MPH with the car in Sport mode. The check engine light came on as I tried to accelerate and the engine became very unresponsive. So I pulled into the next exit and into a parking lot and turned off the car to allow it to reset. I waited a couple of minutes, and tried to start the car again and it simply refused to start, flashing the message "No Energy" and just refusing to start up. I tried switching into Sport Mode and Back to no avail. So I turned the car off and called Mr. Naimi who said "I will be there in just a minute" . So I turned on the Hazard warning lights and stood outside to wait.
It was pretty surreal when a guy came up and started talking to me about the car and said that he was looking to get one, etc. and I showed him around the car, let him sit in it, never telling him that I am actually broken down. So we chatted for a while and then he went off and Mr. Naimi showed up with a brand new Jag XFR which he said he was going to let me have if he needed to keep the car. So we did the hard reset thing and when the car came back to life, it started right up and appeared to be working normally. Mr. Naimi suggested that I follow him back to the dealership all on surface streets to see how the car drives. It worked flawlessly and I actually had a fun drive around the Marin back roads, dodging a lot of cyclists. As we got close to the dealership we pulled over to see how the Karma was doing. So I turned the car off. We waited for a minute or two, and I turned on again and Sport mode was working fine and there was no check engine light.
So I decided to take the car and head home. Sport mode worked perfectly and there were no hiccups. The power was fine, I had no problem passing other cars on the freeway and had to keep an eye on my speed.
When I stopped to pay the toll on the Golden Gate bridge, the toll taker asked about the car and we had a leisurely two or three minute conversation about the car as traffic was building up behind me in the toll lane. I have never seen any toll taker show the slightest interest in anything, other than the approach of the end of their shift, so this was a very Fisker moment.
Anyway, the car drove home perfectly, the Bluetooth music and phone connection worked fine and the engine ran smoothly all the way. When I got home, I plugged the car into my Blink Level II charger, and to my surprise, the car started charging up. So whatever the problem was with charging and the check engine light and the diminished power, the hard reset appears to have solved it for now.
We are going out to dinner tonight and I am hoping to have the car charged up sufficiently to use the Stealth mode for the ride to see if it is, in fact, charging.
Will post photos tomorrow since I did not get a chance to get good pictures before we start losing the light.
All I can say is, so far, so awesome. Let's see how the car does in the days and weeks to come.
-- Fab.
The drama started as I got on the highway and tried to accelerate beyond 60MPH with the car in Sport mode. The check engine light came on as I tried to accelerate and the engine became very unresponsive. So I pulled into the next exit and into a parking lot and turned off the car to allow it to reset. I waited a couple of minutes, and tried to start the car again and it simply refused to start, flashing the message "No Energy" and just refusing to start up. I tried switching into Sport Mode and Back to no avail. So I turned the car off and called Mr. Naimi who said "I will be there in just a minute" . So I turned on the Hazard warning lights and stood outside to wait.
It was pretty surreal when a guy came up and started talking to me about the car and said that he was looking to get one, etc. and I showed him around the car, let him sit in it, never telling him that I am actually broken down. So we chatted for a while and then he went off and Mr. Naimi showed up with a brand new Jag XFR which he said he was going to let me have if he needed to keep the car. So we did the hard reset thing and when the car came back to life, it started right up and appeared to be working normally. Mr. Naimi suggested that I follow him back to the dealership all on surface streets to see how the car drives. It worked flawlessly and I actually had a fun drive around the Marin back roads, dodging a lot of cyclists. As we got close to the dealership we pulled over to see how the Karma was doing. So I turned the car off. We waited for a minute or two, and I turned on again and Sport mode was working fine and there was no check engine light.
So I decided to take the car and head home. Sport mode worked perfectly and there were no hiccups. The power was fine, I had no problem passing other cars on the freeway and had to keep an eye on my speed.
When I stopped to pay the toll on the Golden Gate bridge, the toll taker asked about the car and we had a leisurely two or three minute conversation about the car as traffic was building up behind me in the toll lane. I have never seen any toll taker show the slightest interest in anything, other than the approach of the end of their shift, so this was a very Fisker moment.
Anyway, the car drove home perfectly, the Bluetooth music and phone connection worked fine and the engine ran smoothly all the way. When I got home, I plugged the car into my Blink Level II charger, and to my surprise, the car started charging up. So whatever the problem was with charging and the check engine light and the diminished power, the hard reset appears to have solved it for now.
We are going out to dinner tonight and I am hoping to have the car charged up sufficiently to use the Stealth mode for the ride to see if it is, in fact, charging.
Will post photos tomorrow since I did not get a chance to get good pictures before we start losing the light.
All I can say is, so far, so awesome. Let's see how the car does in the days and weeks to come.
-- Fab.
