My Liteblox Battery Review: Dangerous and many problems.Now what to do? never have it anywhere near?

Guys, I need a bit of advice.

I have a Ferrari California T and a Lambo.
The cars have to sit in the garage for weeks and no power plug is available so I decided to get one of those high tech batteries which last longer. Braille wasn't available, so I bought liteblox thinking it is good technology and reliable.

And I haven't seen such sht products in a long while. Details below:

Before buying, I spoke with the owner of Liteblox. I gave all the car details and capacity needed. He assured me the batteries will work with my cars without any problems and that these batteries last more than one year when the kill switch is on (more on this later) and the battery has anti-theft protection. He told me they are a German engineering company and all components are high quality and well engineered etc etc. And I bought it.

I ordered the two batteries he recommended. Both of them full of issues. They replaced one and the replacement had other issues.

I'm talking about serious issues. You don't want to see this while driving in traffic. Yes, it happened. And yes, not a pleasant experience seeing battery get empty while the car is in motion in daily traffic.

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With that, the company liteblox litewerks whatever they are called, they were also extremely annoying and unprofessional. They tried to make it look like service shop did something wrong. After I confronted them and it was clear that wasn't the case, then they blamed the BMS of the car.

Probably they are always used to doing it to others, blaming the car. They didn't take into account that I had the issues not on a single car but both on the Ferrari and Lamborghini.

Then they sent another battery. Which had other issues. They said they have some bms thingy which also needs to be put with the new battery. When I asked why wasn't it provided when I ordered first time, they told me they didn't know it is needed.

I'll be honest. Based on all the issues I had, -not just the one I mentioned above, there were many- these guys did't give me any impression they know what they are doing. They are like testing and debugging on the live running 300k car saying oh let's try this, let's try that, changing parameters of the battery, and they're gonna fck up whole electronics of the car. Even when it looks working, I don't want to be the guinea pig of some fcked up startup while driving 200 kmh. The battery, the software, service, support, everything I touched there had serious problems in terms of quality.


Their owner is another annoying personality who blamed us all the time instead of accepting the defects. After none of the batteries worked properly, I told him I don't want his batteries and we sent them back. Then he got more nasty saying we permanently damaged one of the batteries etc etc. which is of course bs. I think he is doing it to avoid paying back the money he got.


So my experience trying their product was horrible. And I don't like the way these guys make business. This has cost me a lot of time and caused a lot of annoyance.


I don't really get into these situations so I don't know much what to do. Any recommendations how to deal with this?

 

I think i was stupid for me to trust them and wire them the money instead of paying with cc.

Same way I trusted to other things the owner of litewerks / liteblox said. Like the "kill switch" feature - it is one of the reasons I bought those batteries. If i'd be away for vacation, I could activate the kill switch and disconnect the battery and not worry about it draining he said.

He told me the battery can sit over one year when kill switch is activated. its documentation says similar: about 450 days.

Looks like another lie. My experience with the kill switch is that it is big BS.

At the time I activated the kill switch and left the car with the disconnected battery, it was at 84%

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when I was back 17 days later, i found it at 28%. That's nowhere close to what he promised..

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I'm lucky that I actually found it out before the battery drained and before the car was unstartable.

84% to 28% in 17 days, so I'd be surprised if it could do more than 5-6 weeks based on these numbers. Documentation also says if it gets less than 10%, you may not be able to start the car.

Lies and lies.

Sorry for the long posts. I'm just very frustrated with those guys.

 

You're right, I should have gone with Braille or AG. I think it is stupid of me that I'm mislead by the Liteblox website and my contact with them.

Honestly, I don't expect to be lied in the face when I'm talking to the CEO of an engineering company.

When I asked about antigravity, the CEO of Liteblox told me:

This is what he wrote. And the price of Antigravity was about half of Liteblox. I don't cut corners when buying stuff. Quality matters to me a lot. Again it was a misjudgement for me to think Liteblox has higher quality.

When buying the batteries, i didn't know or have any idea the sht I'm getting into. Lot of other things also happened, I'm just cutting the story short.