AirBag ecu failure

[BouncyBoatFolk]

The stats show that there should be a pile of 2,000,000 defunct airbag ECUs. Has anybody seen it on Google Earth?

That's truly appalling and very wasteful if it's caused by cost cutting on just a couple of internal components.
Mike.

 

[PlacidoD]

I would think the number of airbag control modules sold would have indicated that. Today I bought one from Coastal Motorhomes I asked do you sell many? this is the 4th ive sold today , thats typical and theres 3 of us taking orders. That number would have been somewhere sometime.
By the way have you had a responce?

So that gives an indication of motorhome failures. Are there any comparable figures for commercial vans? Are you aware of a responses to a similar survey for them? Are they suffering a similar failure rate or does regular almost daily use and higher mileage make a difference to failure rate?

P.S. It is quite appalling that you have a choice of which money pit to choose - Ford with injector and wet belt issues or Ducato with airbag and steering failures. You just have a choice of which money pit gets your circa £80k!!!

 

[9Etype]

So that gives an indication of motorhome failures. Are there any comparable figures for commercial vans? Are you aware of a responses to a similar survey for them? Are they suffering a similar failure rate or does regular almost daily use and higher mileage make a difference to failure rate?

P.S. It is quite appalling that you have a choice of which money pit to choose - Ford with injector and wet belt issues or Ducato with airbag and steering failures. You just have a choice of which money pit gets your circa £80k!!!

Took mine off and had it repaired in Liverpool lasted three days so I replaced it with a new one refitted it had my local garage clear faults been fine ever since all this took place last year on my Hymer b558dl very easy to fix

 

[Barn1e]

As others have said - my issue was a flat battery that caused a problem in the dash display panel. The airbag warning light would glow, not quite fully on but enough to fail MOT. sent unit off for repair and all good. That was on an 65 plate Ducato.

My 23 plate had an issue from new of not showing the correct oil level. Cause - a flat battery during build! Solved by Fiat garage resetting a code in engine management ECU.

If you have a Ducato etc, don’t let the voltage drop below about 10v. Ok to remove battery, just avoid the ECUs receiving a low voltage.

 

[pat100]

Ok to remove battery, just avoid the ECUs receiving a low voltage.

It seems that (always) before disconnecting the battery, you should wait 3 or 6 minutes for the computer to go to sleep (and don’t re-awaken it in that interval by operating anything electrical e.g. opening a door)

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[Lazyboy]

So that gives an indication of motorhome failures. Are there any comparable figures for commercial vans? Are you aware of a responses to a similar survey for them? Are they suffering a similar failure rate or does regular almost daily use and higher mileage make a difference to failure rate?

P.S. It is quite appalling that you have a choice of which money pit to choose - Ford with injector and wet belt issues or Ducato with airbag and steering failures. You just have a choice of which money pit gets your circa £80k!!!

For information, I was one of the “lucky” recipients of a duff airbag ECU!! Speaking to Rockingham motors at Corby the service guy said he had repaired”loads” of ECU’s on Motorhome conversions but he could not remember changing one on a van!!!

 

[PlacidoD]

For information, I was one of the “lucky” recipients of a duff airbag ECU!! Speaking to Rockingham motors at Corby the service guy said he had repaired” loads” of ECU’s on Motorhome conversions but he could not remember changing one on a van!!!

So that suggests a problem either with MoHo use or MoHo equipment?
Equipment: It could be all the leisure battery electrics in the back?
Use: Infrequent use might mean sub-optimal voltage on the engine battery