Yeah, I believe the part number confusion is why @DevSecOps stopped posting and updating them. He's basically confirmed that when dealers older a HVBJB for a specific VIN, you should get the right part. Hopefully that's accurate!
You should be fine to drive it there as long as you aren't attempting to be spped racer
any thoughts on how/why this happened even after receiving the recall? I assumed the recall would stop this from happening....
The damage was already done previously, the new software is just detecting it for the first time.
wow i didnt know that was possible. considering the car didnt stall out, does that mean the damage done is "minor" so to speak? or will it need new parts you think?
You will need a new junction box, but be thankful that your car still drives until that gets done. The new software has hopefully stopped it from getting much worse before it completely bricks on you.
Thanks for the speedy replies. Do you know how long i can expect to be without the car? Gonna be tough to share a single car between both our jobs and my kids school. Is this a major fix requiring weeks and parts on backorder?
In theory the dealer could scan the car tomorrow, see the codes in this TSB, and order the replacement part. They can give the car back to you after scanning it. Part would arrive in a couple days, Mon/Tues so they could perform the repair after that. You should only have to leave your car on the day of the repair. So about a 1 week wait with the car out of service for a day or two. But things could really go downhill from there at some dealers that don't understand the process.
But… Lee… I have always been smarter and more capable than most around me. I am a Poodle!
An alternative viewpoint of this would be that following the orders of Ford corp is exactly the opposite of questioning logic since it turns the mechanic into just a drone following a script. While there are supposedly psychopaths everywhere in every field you should at least be able to see the huge differences between a job that allows you to troubleshoot something vs a job that forces you to follow a script. Very different types of people would be attracted to the job based on that alone with absolutely nothing todo with a person's ego or personality traits.
I’ve floored mine twice in the past 3 days to pass tourists gawking at Hawaii while doing 35 in a 60 zone. The car blew up. I was killed instantly.
I think Lee is talking more about service advisors than mechanics. Being a mechanic probably isn't attractive to psychopaths. Service advisors a lot of times like to act like they know more than the customer when in reality with people like us they generally know WAY less. I've had both good and bad service advisors over the years. Some will dismiss anything you tell them other than the basic complaint, others will write down every bit of info you have. They should treat it like "more information = faster diagnosis = faster to get out of here". If I was a tech I would read the complaint, then if a TSB was listed by the customer I would immediately read it before I started diagnosing. That way I can pinpoint faster or rule out that TSB quickly.
