What experience have you seen with 2001 V70s that have used the software upgrade to get rid of the Neutral Stop function on the tranny? Early failure?
I have seen posts saying that the trannys were not meant to sit at stop with a load, so eliminating the neutral stop function will cause undue load and early failure.
Other posts say there have been no adverse effect of the software update.
Seems like 4 years is plenty of time to determine if this is a good idea or not. I don't like the neutral stop lag and I can see why it only lasted one year.
Driven.
Nuetral Stop Transmission....
Started by Driven, Feb 21 2005 06:56 PM
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 06:56 PM
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Posted 21 February 2005 - 07:03 PM
Interseting.... so the tranny shifts to neutral when at a standstill? Seems like it would help keep the wet clutch from taking unnecessary load.
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Posted 22 February 2005 - 12:38 AM
No tranny failures from the SW upgrade. The function was all software anyway, they just did away with it and it really works.
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Posted 22 February 2005 - 04:59 AM
QUOTE(LiquidKernel @ Feb 21 2005, 03:03 PM)
Interseting.... so the tranny shifts to neutral when at a standstill? Seems like it would help keep the wet clutch from taking unnecessary load.
Yeah sounds cool too bad it didn't work. Sometimes it felt like you were doing a N drop of the line. No more problems since my upgrade either.
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Black '01 S60 T5 GT
Volvo sport suspension
EST intake kit
EBC Greenstuff up front
On order: TME springs, VMS poly bushing
Plans:
3" Downpipe, 2.5" Ferrita Exhaust
BSR PPC
EST SAM grill
Silverstars hi/lo and fogs - LOOK MA, NO HIDZZZ!!!
'95 White 850 N/A ipd springs 17" TSW 5 spoke (totalled, not by me though)
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Posted 22 February 2005 - 05:19 AM
Does anyone have the specific SW# for the fix?
My car doesn't suffer from the stop neutral lag. However, I never remember requesting it. Perhaps the nice people at the dealership fixed it for me.
Thanks in advance.
My car doesn't suffer from the stop neutral lag. However, I never remember requesting it. Perhaps the nice people at the dealership fixed it for me.
Thanks in advance.
Stephen
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Posted 22 February 2005 - 05:25 AM
QUOTE(StickThatClutch @ Feb 21 2005, 11:19 PM)
Does anyone have the specific SW# for the fix?
My car doesn't suffer from the stop neutral lag. However, I never remember requesting it. Perhaps the nice people at the dealership fixed it for me.
Thanks in advance.
My car doesn't suffer from the stop neutral lag. However, I never remember requesting it. Perhaps the nice people at the dealership fixed it for me.
Thanks in advance.
Go in and ask for a software upgrade if your car is under warranty. We did that with our 2.4T. It was having problems cranking (intermittently took an extra long time to crank), but a general software upgrade fixed that up. Cost nothing, too.
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Posted 22 February 2005 - 05:28 AM
I have a feeling my car is "fixed". I never noticed a problem starting from a stop. When it was new I didn't remember this to be a problem either. I'm thinking somewhere along the line that the SW patch was probably added already. I have all my records so I can just scan through them and match up the SW# if someone here knows the specific patch.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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