This Bricked Fisker Ocean Only Needed A $100 Part To Run Again

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Fisker is dead, so if you own a Fisker and you need Fisker parts, you’re totally shit out of luck. Unless you can track down the parts you need on eBay from a dismantled car, like Rich from Rich Rebuilds did. A few months ago he bought a bricked Fisker Ocean for just $10,000 from a dealership that just totally ran out of fucks to give. With the vehicle in hand, Rich was able to get it to respond by charging up the low-voltage battery system, but something wouldn’t allow the vehicle to accept a charge to its high-voltage traction battery.

I Bought a Bricked Fisker Ocean from a Bankrupt Company and Fixed it for $100!

Rich and his team figured out that the issue was actually in the charge port itself. There’s a sensor there that ensures your charging cable is fully seated in the port, and that sensor was borked beyond use. Without that sensor telling the car it was safe to charge, it wouldn’t initiate the “handshake” to accept electrons, even using a simple 110v J1772 cable.

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After tearing into the system to figure out how it works, the problem part was uncovered, and a used replacement was sourced. Unfortunately there aren’t any service manuals or certified Fisker repair shops around, you know, because the company’s grand opening was quickly followed by its grand closing.

If you’re one of the few hundred people out there who paid seventy thousand American dollars for an Ocean, I feel so unbelievably bad for you. Especially if you don’t have the EV knowhow of someone like Rich Rebuilds. You’re going to run into some issue that completely locks up your daily driver EV and there won’t be anyone around to fix it for you. “So that’s it?,” you say “After five months of Fisker ownership? So long, good luck?” And Henrik Fisker will reply “I don’t recall saying good luck.”