P0D05: Control Pilot Charging Ventilation Switch Stuck Off
What to do
As P0D00 — a charging-handshake fault, not a battery one. Note which chargers work and which refuse.
What this code means
The ventilation switch is stuck in its off state.
The benign direction, and usually invisible. With the switch stuck off the car can never request ventilated charging — a mode a lithium vehicle was never going to use. Most owners would never notice.
It is worth fixing rather than ignoring only because it is a stuck switch: whatever is holding it — corrosion, water, a failed contact — is the same mechanism that would hold the pilot circuit itself, and that one does stop charging. Family argument at P0D00.
Likely causes
Start here
- Damaged charging inlet or pins · moderate
- Water ingress into connector · easy
- Corroded or loose connector · easy
Less common
- Faulty on-board charger · specialist
- Fault in the external charging equipment · easy
Symptoms
Components involved
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