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However, your vehicle is designed to continuously recalibrate itself, and after changing tires it will increasingly restore regenerative braking power after some moderate-torque straight-line accelerations. For most drivers this occurs after a short period of normal driving, but drivers who normally accelerate lightly may need to use slightly harder accelerations while the recalibration is in progress.
Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon. Just google it for YT videos and forum posts on the subject.I seriously doubt that a new tire would cause regen to not work at all.
Have you tried swapping only 3 tires at a time? It sounds like that's what happened here.Regen not working at all is a very different thing to reduced regen.
Reduced regen can happen for a number of reasons but no regen is very unusual.
I'm guessing this is a case of reduced regen.
Also, I swap between winter tyres, track tyres with not much tread and road tyres with a lot of tread quite regularly and have never had anything like this happen.
Hmmm.... don't recall ever reading that but it's been some time since I put my nose into the .PDF. I changed out two rear tires about a year ago but don't remember ever feeling regen change at all. Could be that I don't accelerate gently.
I don’t think that’s quite accurate. Bald tires will actually provide MORE traction on dry roads, which is why racecars don’t have treaded tires.Regen on bald rear tires is super dangerous, my theory is that the car tries to detect that state by measuring the difference in diameter between front and rear.
Said race cars also use a different rubber compound which is inherently more "stickier" than a normal tire.I don’t think that’s quite accurate. Bald tires will actually provide MORE traction on dry roads, which is why racecars don’t have treaded tires.
I'm talking about wet roads, regen is nowhere near strong enough to break any tire loose on a dry road. This is the situation I think they're trying to protect people from: Hydroplane and lifting off the acceleratorI don’t think that’s quite accurate. Bald tires will actually provide MORE traction on dry roads, which is why racecars don’t have treaded tires.
I’m guessing the computer uses the acceleration runs to determine available traction from the rear wheels to ensure commanded regen doesn’t exceed what’s available for that particular tire. I’ll be very surprised if diameter had anything to do with it.
Page 69 in the manual.
"However, your vehicle is designed to continuously recalibrate itself, and after changing tires it will increasingly restore regenerative braking power after some moderate-torque straight-line accelerations. For most drivers this occurs after a short period of normal driving, but drivers who normally accelerate lightly may need to use slightly harder accelerations while the recalibration is in progress."
Don't have time to test this out right now. Will report back later
Funnily enough I haven't swapped just 3 tyres and then driven any distance.Have you tried swapping only 3 tires at a time? It sounds like that's what happened here.
Regen on bald rear tires is super dangerous, my theory is that the car tries to detect that state by measuring the difference in diameter between front and rear.
I can confirm that after a short drive the regen is back to normal