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geoffb
06-07-2002, 07:36 AM
More on too aggressive upshifting, jerky accelerator response and such.. Took the 2002 XC to the dealer, new firmware for the transmission and throttle control was downloaded using VADIS, the result is that it's like a totally different car, MUCH improved. No more touchy accelerator response, much smoother gear-gear shift and so forth. This evidently was a well known problem with cars manufactured up to mid March of 2002. Later cars have the firmware already installed.

Hey - they are learning from the computer business - "its not a bug, just bring it in and we'll patch it".. why does this not reassure me ?

lsokol
06-07-2002, 10:54 AM
Where do you live? I took my car in about 2 months ago and they told me they had no software to update. Not even the automatic locking.