engine management and re-map?

[Andy R]

All,

Well after being delighted with my new to me 2010 xc90, 34k miles D5, it let me down this morning. I had the engine remapped by shark, to give 225bhp, which transformed overtaking on welsh a roads,but as I live in Powys, used the remote version and bought the thingy to install the map.

Last month it went into limp mode and I reinstalled the original map and then the stage one map, and all was fine. A glitch I thought.....this morning at 6am it did the same a mile from home ( I was going to high wycombe) I reinstalled the new map, then the old, the error `engine system maintenance required ` stayed up, so I limped back home and took the wife's car.

Frustratingly the AA found nothing wrong with it at 11am, but I'm taking it into William A Lewis in shrewsbury in the morning to check its not anything else (original map installed)

Anyone any ideas? Or had anything similar? I hope its not the remap.

Any independent Volvo garages near my location? Between oswestry and welshpool?

Andy R

[Ducklakeview]

Have to say, it sounds like a problem with the new "map"...

[scoobysn7x]

Part of the softload procedure (adding removing the map) is clearing codes, so when it first happened and you took the map off and on any codes/error message will have been cleared, althought the problem may not have been resolved, the light has come back on when the car is running the standard map I think that would indicate there an issue. (and not necessarily with the remap) although it may be worth contacting shark and they can reveiw the data from the softloader to see if there is an issue with the map.

I too have a Shark remap via a softloader and had an issue in that the first time I put the remap on I jsut ended up with a load of error warnings on the dash and it wouldn't even start, but they sent me a standard map and had it sorted in about 40mins, they then spent 24HRs tweeking the map to my car and it went on fine on the second install, and its been fine since (albeit they've not another tweek to make the map suit my driving better.)

[John_C]

It could be any one of a number of things and could be completely unrelated to the remap. Best way to go is to get the fault codes read and go from there.

[shark90]

Hi Andy

It is possible to purchase an add-on for the Softloader that will read and delete fault codes, this means we might be able to help without it costing you extra in diagnostics a garage.

If we can help in any way, of course we will do so, and if the issue can be worked around in the map, then we will certainly do that too.

Regards

Ben

[Andy R]

Dear all,

Thanks for the replies, it wasn't the map, but was the diesel exhaust particulate sensor, replaced in a day by William A Lewis of shrewsbury with little fuss, same day. Even gave me an office to work in.

Sorry if it sounded like I was casting aspersions towards shark performance Ben, but it was one possibility. I'm off to France on Saturday, but I may well take you up on the offer for the diagnostic programme for the soft loader, sounds a useful tool, plus it will put my mind at rest rather than worry what something is.

Reinstalled the shark stage one map after I left the garage, the difference was as before very noticeable over the 185 standard map I drove to the garage with, I'm very pleased with it.

Andy R

[shark90]

Hi Andy

Not at all, glad you've got the car sorted and I didn't take your post as finger pointing, just trying to help where we can

Cheers

[amatore]

Can I buy from anyone just the [MTE] software? I have the ipd interface and the 'MTE Vehicle

Identification' software. I just need the embedded software bundle that ipd/MTE send back

to the customer allowing him/her to write the tuned software to his/her ECU.

This is it:-
"You unzip the tuned file that you received back from ipd/MTE and run the setup folder

and you will get the MTE Softloader icon on your desktop, the files themselves will be in

C:\Program Files\MTE\MTE Soft-Loader."

I just want the contents of the setup folder!

[SwissXC90]

But don't you have to purchase the software?