Just a reminder the tsb for brake booster and actuato

I guess I could think of a few ways to do that, but I might save even more money by just telling my life insurance company that I'm actually 20.

 

My 2013 V has had a noisy brake booster ever since I bought it in 2017 with 22K on it. It now has 96K on it. I had assumed all the noises I heard were normal. I don't know if I should be concerned or not. The brakes work fine as far as I can tell.

There is a strange sound that the booster always makes at about 5 minutes after I turn the car off. Other noises occur randomly, but are more likely during panic stops. I am an Uber driver in Philadelphia, so my dashcam would record any noises. I just need to save some examples.

 

That's the self test. What would be weird would be if it didn't happen. I think of it as more like two minutes after power off, but I've never used a stopwatch on it.

 

I do hear other noise at other times though. I might start pressing the "event" button on my dashcam when I hear one. I can then post what I just heard (otherwise, it gets overwritten).

 

And as long as you believe something was designed badly it isn't fraud to fake a dealer out of free ones.

 

An open and shut case. Ripping them off is not just ok, it's your duty as an American.

Good to finally know what they did in the software about the IPM. You can't imagine how frustrating it's been having no access to the source code, and having to guess.

 

I'm sorry, where's that?

 

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Yeah, that laziness gets me every time. That article is more or less quoting from the defect information report, which I'm too lazy to find, but the link might work (fortunately I read it a few years ago, before I had become such a slacker).

You seem to be relying on this part of the report: "if a specific transistor within the IPM fails in a certain way during a high-load driving condition, such as during hard acceleration, there is a possibility for an abnormally high voltage to be generated that could exceed a certain limit in the software and IPM circuit design."

For clarity, that's describing a certain cause (an IGBT failing, which happens first), and a certain effect (when you open a switch during high current flow in a circuit with inductance, what does the voltage do?) which follows the cause, and that resulting voltage spike is coupled to the MG ECU and triggers a shutdown, when otherwise you should have had limp mode.

In post #10 you seem to have read that as if their fix was a software change to limit voltage:

This might be a good opportunity to invite your old electronics prof to lunch and check whether they would read it the same way.

It might seem strange the two things can be separated, but they can. If I saw somebody else on PriusChat organizing members to rip you off, I would call them on it. You're welcome. That wouldn't necessarily mean I was defending you, or that I wouldn't also call you out for your BS. If they were trying to justify ripping you off by spreading BS about you, I'd call them on that. So it's complicated.

 

My 2010 is already beyond the brake warranty extension, so that's one temptation I no longer face. Ditto for ZF3; if I want a new EGR valve, I'll have to buy it.

My Gen 1 did legitimately develop the steering jitter within the extended warranty for that, and so I got brand new steering for free in a car that was 7 years and 140,000 miles beyond its original new car steering warranty, and that was pretty cool.

My clock hasn't run out yet on ZE3, so if I wanted I would certainly know how to trigger the right codes, as you suggest, and jump the line on that, ahead of people with actual failures. Waiting for it to really happen before 2025 could mean I lose out on some free stuff, depending on how the cookies crumble (sorry bisco). Free stuff is worth something, sure.

Thing is, the guys at my local dealership kind of know me, and they kind of know I don't scam them ... and in life, that's worth something too. Back when it was my Gen 1 steering, it actually saved me some of their normal verification steps, because they knew they needn't bother. That was convenient and saved me at least one return trip.

 

I've been dealing with this lately. I'd like to find out about the procedure please.