Space Ace Member 446 Member For: 20y 4m 21d Location: Melbourne, Victoria Posted 01/04/05 07:12 AM Share Posted 01/04/05 07:12 AM Took my car for its 3K inspection this week and I told them that the gear changes (yes, its an auto) were a bit rough at times when cruising and that it would sometimes boost without any prodding.Anyways, I picked up the car and they told me it was all fixed as there's been an update done which rectifies this.Sure enough, as I'm leaving the dealer the car feels alot smoother at low end speed but once I planted it on the freeway, it felt sluggish and the gear changes were sh*thouse. WTF, WTF, WTF....Has anyone else experienced this???Space Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/16714-wheres-the-power-gone/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyturbo Member 500 Member For: 21y 2m 25d Gender: Male Posted 01/04/05 09:55 AM Share Posted 01/04/05 09:55 AM didn't take it to a Expensive Daewoo dealer did you? Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/16714-wheres-the-power-gone/#findComment-237882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAturb Member 521 Member For: 20y 6m 26d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 01/04/05 10:01 AM Share Posted 01/04/05 10:01 AM went to ford dealer the other day for warrenty work (fuel gauge not working) and the first thing they said it needed a reflash, after a bit of arguing they crossed it off the list, BUT when I asked if the new flash caused the car to loose power the answer was "yes, but you may not notice it and if it is not done you may have warranty issues down the track" Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/16714-wheres-the-power-gone/#findComment-237884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stardust Member 537 Member For: 20y 10m 27d Location: Brisbane Posted 01/04/05 10:41 AM Share Posted 01/04/05 10:41 AM So what you are saying is they are dropping the power of the T with the reflash ?They advertise it as 240 kw so if it dont produce that or close to it, I think that there could be a cause for false advertising on fords part.Ken Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/16714-wheres-the-power-gone/#findComment-237893 Share on other sites More sharing options...
beauies Member 209 Member For: 21y 8m 18d Gender: Male Location: sydney Posted 01/04/05 11:33 AM Share Posted 01/04/05 11:33 AM Space ace,I brought this up a week or two ago on the forum.Its strange but no one believed me that the new update is causing problems.I don't know how much your car is down but mine now has gone from 310rwkws to 249rwkws.So far from a little investigating this update cannot be removed.The answer I keep getting from ford is "your aftermarket computer needs to be retuned" WHAT A LOAD OF HORSE S**T.Nothing so far has sorted it out. This car of mine has spent many hours on the dyno trying to get back the kws with no real gain so far. We have even been looking at buying a second hand factory computer plus body control module and the car keys off a wreck. (One that hasn't been updated yet but to expense but if that's what it takes.)But the other option that every *beep* and his dog will bring up in a minute is. "BUY FORD EDIT, that will solve it"I would like someone to prove to me it will!I've got the car if someone has the gearSorry if I sound pissed off at everybody but for the last three weeks the car has been sitting in a dyno workshop with no solution in site. This is the second car with the same problem the workshop has seen.From what I have been told say if ford is up to "update 8" you can have your cars computer wiped and reload but what has been explained to me is that even if they only load up to "update 7" the car will not run or their system automatically loads "update 8" If you can make sense of that paragraph I feel like I have been fed heaps of sh*t and havn't talked to a person that actually gives a sh*t yet.Any other ideas on solutions please comment. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/16714-wheres-the-power-gone/#findComment-237908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickq Member 740 Member For: 22y 1m 18d Posted 01/04/05 03:18 PM Share Posted 01/04/05 03:18 PM I recently had my 15k service and they did a reflash with new software. I noticed a slight drop in power. Probably more in how "aggressive" the power came on rather than peak power. (Torque limiting??!)I took my car in today (10 days later) to get a mag wheel replaced. They took my damaged one and are ordering a new one and will transfer my tyre to it. So all they had to do was remove one wheel, whack the spare on, and keep ahold of the damaged one until a new one came in...then swap the tyre to the new one, call me up and fit it to my car. What is most interesting about this is when I looked at their service form thing (that the mechanics read to see what is supposed to be done) there was mention of my mag wheel and a second, surprising, totally unrelated item along the lines of:ECU reflash to smooth out 3000-4000rpm.No idea why it was there. I had not mentioned anything about it, and assumed the flash I got 10 days ago was the latest. Perhaps a newer version is out and important enough that they do it to your car when it next came in.Anyone know about this one??! Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/16714-wheres-the-power-gone/#findComment-237945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinT Donating Members 372 Member For: 20y 4m 8d Posted 01/04/05 10:55 PM Share Posted 01/04/05 10:55 PM I keep worrying about this ECU tuning Ford do for our benifit. I am about to go the Flash Edit and after reading the comments here I won't be going near a dealer after that for services.Colin Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/16714-wheres-the-power-gone/#findComment-237970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Forum Superhero Donating Members 3,109 Member For: 21y 6m 13d Location: Eastern Suburbs of Mexico Posted 02/04/05 01:41 AM Share Posted 02/04/05 01:41 AM Space ace,I brought this up a week or two ago on the forum.Its strange but no one believed me that the new update is causing problems.I don't know how much your car is down but mine now has gone from 310rwkws to 249rwkws.So far from a little investigating this update cannot be removed.The answer I keep getting from ford is "your aftermarket computer needs to be retuned" WHAT A LOAD OF HORSE S**T.Nothing so far has sorted it out. This car of mine has spent many hours on the dyno trying to get back the kws with no real gain so far. We have even been looking at buying a second hand factory computer plus body control module and the car keys off a wreck. (One that hasn't been updated yet but to expense but if that's what it takes.)But the other option that every *beep* and his dog will bring up in a minute is. "BUY FORD EDIT, that will solve it"I would like someone to prove to me it will!I've got the car if someone has the gearSorry if I sound pissed off at everybody but for the last three weeks the car has been sitting in a dyno workshop with no solution in site. This is the second car with the same problem the workshop has seen.From what I have been told say if ford is up to "update 8" you can have your cars computer wiped and reload but what has been explained to me is that even if they only load up to "update 7" the car will not run or their system automatically loads "update 8" If you can make sense of that paragraph I feel like I have been fed heaps of sh*t and havn't talked to a person that actually gives a sh*t yet.Any other ideas on solutions please comment.Beauies, I had the same issue when I was running the piggyback. The reflash completely screwed my car, and yes you have to go back to your tuner for a complete re-tune as many have already done. The car will be running alot richer and like I presume.Do a search as this has already been discussed at much length about the re-flash causing alot of problems on modded T's, it was disscussed some time back. Simple thing from now on tell them under no circumstances do you want the car flashed......... Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/16714-wheres-the-power-gone/#findComment-238029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
turb06 Dark Knight Mafia Member No. - 666 Member 3,667 Member For: 22y 3m 15d Location: Toowoomba Posted 02/04/05 01:54 AM Share Posted 02/04/05 01:54 AM Got my car serviced last week and no reflash was done, it hasnt been flashed since 15,000k's and it just had its 45,000Dazza. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/16714-wheres-the-power-gone/#findComment-238034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flukey Seriously Flukey Member Donating Members 4,354 Member For: 21y 2m 19d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 02/04/05 02:07 AM Share Posted 02/04/05 02:07 AM Mine was reflashed last week for the 30K service. No difference to me, it still goes as hard. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/16714-wheres-the-power-gone/#findComment-238039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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