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Sign of the times...

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McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
When Mercedes first introduced Add Blue for their diesel range of engines when the add blue was empty you had a range of 100 or so miles before the engine management system shut down the engine.

Even worse was if you topped up the Add Blue yourself it still would not re-start as a dealer  had to reset the level switch. A later software update allowed you to top up your own Add Blue.

Spitfire:
Just had some fun with my 2020 Ford Focus Active, it stopped responding to the fob to unlock itself at random times, I could get in using the skeleton key but it was still dead.
Left it for a while and and magically all was normal.
Then in a rush to get to an appointment I got to the end of the road and realised that I had no instrument cluster.
Got the AA out and he checked everything, battery, connections in the passenger footwell which can be a problem, used his diagnostic ipad, nothing showing, disconnected the battery, reconnected it and reset it, checked some meaty looking connections under the bonnet.
Still nothing obvious, he recommended me to charge the battery, this required a new posh charger, and recommended me to get the system reset but this could only be done at a main Ford dealership.
So off to the Ford Dealer, new battery and reset the BMS and all is well.
The BMS is the Battery Management System which I had never heard of.

Cheers

Dennis

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Love it a BMS !

Mercs & old model Smart Cars have a SAM unit, Signal Aquisition Module or as us oldies know it a fuse box!

Due to poor internal connections sometimes due to water ingress in Smart Cars and the SL models with the metal folding roof where the SAM unit is in the boot. Seals dry out allowing water to enter the SAM unit. They used to be around £1k a throw to supply & fit.

ST1100:
The current marketing scheme... features & gimmicks & technology for technology's sake...
And (too) many jump blindly on that bandwagon... or getting them force fed by lobbyists manage "accessories" being mandatory now...

From money we don't have, we buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like...

In my small world life is too short to ride bad, over-complicated motorcycles...  8)
 

Laverdaroo:
Here, here! 8) ;D ;)

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