Partly happy after a self service... but!

[moorgate]

checking back in after a bit of an absence: a mental travel season this spring kicked off in February with a blast down to Darmstadt, then a separate one to St Moritz... a bit of a busy start to the year for the V50. So I ordered up a service kit - and got called away AGAIN. Only this time, with some warmer weather - and all my troubles with kangaroo throttle response came back. Looks like the last autumn's fix of that was probably more temperature dependent than anything else. And when I say "came back" I mean "got worse super-fast". By the time I'd finished that trip, the car would find it hard to exceed 50 mph uphill in some circumstances.

So I ordered another fuel rail pressure transponder, and put it in while doing the oil change with my dipstick tube oil pump. Filters in, new oil in, spend an hour forgetting to put the fuel pump fuse back in the interior fuse panel... and the car starts up so sweetly, you'd think it was fresh from the showroom.

Next trip comes up too fast to think, so the trial drive is actually about 1,200 miles down to Switzerland again. Hey presto, no jerking or dead throttle spots any more! The car drives much more quietly, shifts a bit better... actually, it shifts a lot more often. In fact, it's up and down in the gears like billy-o. The "going to hurry up now" shift pattern it used to do has disappeared.

I guess the fuel rail sensor requires the transmission to discard all adaptations. Is there any way to do this without a full diagnostic rig? Torque shows transmission fault codes, and succeeds in clearing them, but offers almost no clear information on the accompanying errors. If I clear those codes with the engine running, it gives a little "blip" in the idle: the codes don't seem to come back for some considerable distance. Is there anywhere within reach of the City of London I could get a VIDA session with? I might be interested in a bit of a remap while doing it...

[SwissXC90]

Originally Posted by moorgate

...so the trial drive is actually about 1,200 miles down to Switzerland again. ... Is there anywhere within reach of the City of London I could get a VIDA session with?

Or come and see me. I'm in Switzerland, Zürich area.
I have VIDA.

[moorgate]

Originally Posted by SwissXC90

Or come and see me. I'm in Switzerland, Zürich area.
I have VIDA.

thanks, that's actually not such a silly idea (even though I hate going out via Schaffhausen...). I'm probably revisiting down there in mid-June, once one of those buggers actually reads his email!