As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
That is interesting as they are now specifying the same problem as the one which generated the G650GS/Sertao recall, it confirms that beyond the failure of Dealers to ensure machines were updated to the latest available firmware that the latest firmware is subject to the same "stall with clutch in" problem on the G650GS/SertaoGot a letter from Husqvarna today in the mail. Thought it was my reall but nope. It was a stop riding immediately notice!!
My outlook has not changed, read more carefully what I and others have said re the latest firmware currently available, it resolves 90+% of problems but that we had identified further changes were neededWayneC,
You have been touting that the lack of latest firmware as the root cause of the stalling and issues with these bikes.
However, many of us know that even with the latest firmware some bikes still have issues, glad to see you are finally seeing this.
Oh god…just bought a 2013 Strada yesterday…418km's on it. Should I be in touch w/Husky, KTM, or BMW (I live just outside Edmonton)? What news; blast. I did not buy from a Husky dealer. My oh my...
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I did not buy from a Husky dealer. My oh my...
Oh god…just bought a 2013 Strada yesterday…418km's on it. Should I be in touch w/Husky, KTM, or BMW (I live just outside Edmonton)? What news; blast. I did not buy from a Husky dealer. My oh my...
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Looks like the Recall has been resolved!! Now to book an appointment.
The Canadian Recall website has been updated with an actual fix by KTM.
Last update was on 14th Nov, 2016. KTM will replace the entire ECU with with an updated version.
http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca/recall-alert-rappel-avis/tc/2015/55396r-eng.php#details-details
This is just speculation at this point but my guess is it's a different ECU all together and Map that dosent need BMW computers or their software to update. Probably a modified KTM ecu that their computers can connect too.Good news! Would be interesting to find out exactly what the differences are between the current ECUs and the replacements. The fact that they are replacing the entire ECU seems to suggest the problem is not entirely in the software.
That would be very difficult to do as the BMSE has to interface with the DASH/ABS/Alarm ECUs which are all BMW, then there is EWS controlled by BMWThis is just speculation at this point but my guess is it's a different ECU all together and Map that dosent need BMW computers or their software to update. Probably a modified KTM ecu that their computers can connect too.