POLL: Did the ECU Update Recall work for you?

[thbjr]

This thread/poll is for trying to find out if the recall to update the ABS ECU is doing what we are hoping it would do.
I've included 5 poll questions that I hope will shed some additional light on whether or not the updated software is working as we all are hoping it will.
Thanks for your participation!

[bwilson4web]

Hi,

Could you clarify the difference between "able to duplicate" versus "experienced":

I was able to duplicate the brake issue before the ECU update, but no longer can.
. . .
I have experienced the brake issue before the ECU update, but not after.

I won't be getting my upgrade until Saturday and it may take a while before I can retest under similar conditions.

Thanks,
Bob Wilson

[thbjr]

Hi,

Could you clarify the difference between "able to duplicate" versus "experienced":

Sure, I have experianced the issue, once in a parking lot. But try as I may, I can't duplicate it, as some on the board seem to be able to. Some can replicate the issue over the same bump or at the same rough spot in the road at will, I can't.
That's what I was asking.

No hurry on answering the poll, it's open for 30 days.

[lawboy]

How about a "Did not experience it before/have not experienced it since" option?

[HTMLSpinnr]

I'm going to revise the poll just a bit to clarify the points, and offer a few additional options.

[qbee42]

Originally Posted by HTMLSpinnr

I'm going to revise the poll just a bit to clarify the points, and offer a few additional options.

You moderators have all the fun.

Tom

[HTMLSpinnr]

**Stickied** We'll leave it visible for a bit.

[thbjr]

Originally Posted by HTMLSpinnr

**Stickied** We'll leave it visible for a bit.

Thanks Rick, for the clairification/modification and the sticky.

[HTMLSpinnr]

Title revised per PM as well.

[kgall]

Here's one of the problems I see with figuring this stuff out:
I've been driving cars with ABS (and non-ABS cars too) since 1991. And still, every time ABS kicks in, it feels funny to me. I think that's because it only comes on in unusual circumstances, and it feels very different from normal braking--i.e., the car is fighting back.
Now, I think that I experienced "the Prius brake problem" twice, at a particular uneven part of our gravel driveway. But could I absolutely prove that? I'm not completely sure that it wasn't just the funny feeling of antilock braking fighting back.

I guess my conclusion will be that this poll may be suggestive, but I'm not at all sure that all of us (including me) will give the accurate answer, no matter how subjectively truthful we try to be. (And, I guess I have to say that this applies to the poll that was up for some time about whether we felt the anomaly).

BTW. I just got the ECU update done today, so my answer now is I have not had time to see if it has fixed the problem I think I have.

And they were good and quick about it, and also changed my "backup beep" to a single beep without charge. (Caldwell Toyota, Conway, Ark.)