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Been away for a while, but a problem at the worst possible time.
On Saturday, on my way to shopping, I just came off a speed platform and when I tried to drive off, there was an unresponsive throttle. Had no effect from idle to flat to the floor.
I thought I might have accidentally activated Brake Throttle Override so I tried to switch gears to Manual mode, only this did nothing other than cause the ding alarm to sound and the MFD displayed a Yellow coloured triangle with Workshop next to it. Also, the glow plug light in the tachometer was flashing.
I pulled to the side of the road, shut the engine down and restarted it. It carried on like nothing had happened.
I took it into my dealer this morning and the scanned it via the ODB port. The result was it has generated a "low boost pressure" code. Unfortunately they had no slack time to do anything more.
Other than it going into limp mode, there has been nothing to indicate a lack of turbo boost. I have driven over 100 km since and it has not missed a beat. I doubt if the wastegate has stuck open, and is definitely working. The only thing I can think it might be is either a dirty or failing pressure sensor. It could not be a loose intake connection as this would generate the code every time I tried to drive it.
As luck would have it, I am supposed to be driving to Melbourne on Wednesday to have Christmas with the family, so it is due to go to another dealer tomorrow. They have a spare time slot where they can look into some more and determine whether it is a genuine fault, or a glitch and fix it if necessary.
Unfortunately there can be crashes with all software. Shortly after I bought the Caddy I turned the ignition off without having the transmission in Park, so I could not get the key out. I immediately turned the ignition back on and this saw me getting a message about something wrong with the glow plugs.
Oh, and from the MY11 versions the MFD is actually a colour MFD. It is just that the normal displays only use monochrome. The alert for this error was a yellow triangle. When I checked with the dealer,they said yes, it actually is a colour display.
Been away for a while, but a problem at the worst possible time.
On Saturday, on my way to shopping, I just came off a speed platform and when I tried to drive off, there was an unresponsive throttle. Had no effect from idle to flat to the floor.
I thought I might have accidentally activated Brake Throttle Override so I tried to switch gears to Manual mode, only this did nothing other than cause the ding alarm to sound and the MFD displayed a Yellow coloured triangle with Workshop next to it. Also, the glow plug light in the tachometer was flashing.
I pulled to the side of the road, shut the engine down and restarted it. It carried on like nothing had happened.
I took it into my dealer this morning and the scanned it via the ODB port. The result was it has generated a "low boost pressure" code. Unfortunately they had no slack time to do anything more.
Other than it going into limp mode, there has been nothing to indicate a lack of turbo boost. I have driven over 100 km since and it has not missed a beat. I doubt if the wastegate has stuck open, and is definitely working. The only thing I can think it might be is either a dirty or failing pressure sensor. It could not be a loose intake connection as this would generate the code every time I tried to drive it.
As luck would have it, I am supposed to be driving to Melbourne on Wednesday to have Christmas with the family, so it is due to go to another dealer tomorrow. They have a spare time slot where they can look into some more and determine whether it is a genuine fault, or a glitch and fix it if necessary.
Unfortunately there can be crashes with all software. Shortly after I bought the Caddy I turned the ignition off without having the transmission in Park, so I could not get the key out. I immediately turned the ignition back on and this saw me getting a message about something wrong with the glow plugs.
Oh, and from the MY11 versions the MFD is actually a colour MFD. It is just that the normal displays only use monochrome. The alert for this error was a yellow triangle. When I checked with the dealer,they said yes, it actually is a colour display.
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