Lenny's Looking for Some Sunshine

[gus-lopez]

Was looking good started up no errors gearbox working fine.
And then it all went downhill, there is a very steep slope out of the car park about 150 to 200 yds back comes the Traction control problem we have had before. Standing on the spot engine fighting the traction control burning rubber getting nowhere.
After a few restarts managed to scrabble up the hill juddering and burning rubber engine screaming with my foot to the floor. Once it's on the flat it's fine. But not my nerves.

Since the brake fluid was changed a year ago it has been faultless until yesterday.

This is my original thread about the problem.

Fiat X290 ABS/Comformatic problems

In Spain at the moment and the van through a bit of a wobbly today. A bit of background first, a few ago months at 14000 miles ago I swapped the spare onto RHS front, the other side had about 4mm tread depth. On a few a occasions I have had the LHS front wheel tramping and the traction control...

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Someone on that thread said they had problems with traction control when the tread depth wasn't equal on both wheels on the same axle.

Now before I left I did put the new spare on the front but the fronts had only done 7000 and both sides were acting the same so I don't think that's the reason.
When it originally did it the van had done 21k and I changed the tyres round at 10k & 20k so the wear would have been even.

Last time I took it to a well recommended Fiat Professional dealer shortcut to the result.
https://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/foru...mformatic-problems.205323/page-2#post-3631105

Can you not turn off the traction control?

 

[Dutch 68]

Better put your order in quick, they might deliver before 2025

 

[gus-lopez]

Can you not turn off the traction control?

If there is a possibility it could be the brake light switch have a look at the brake pedal to see where the switch presses. then add something to the pedal to make the pedal push the switch farther up. A small piece of plastic held on with tape would do to rule it out.

 

[Lenny HB]

Given the stress levels (sounds horrendous) I'm gonna say you had two bottles of pink stuff and that the bill was €37.20

Not a bad effort only had one bottle of the pink stuff but I drunk most of it.

 

[Lenny HB]

If there is a possibility it could be the brake light switch have a look at the brake pedal to see where the switch presses. then add something to the pedal to make the pedal push the switch farther up. A small piece of plastic held on with tape would do to rule it out.

Traction control is perminantly with x290's that have traction plus. Brake light switch is linked to sorts of electronics on these modern engines.
It probably won't go wrong again for another year I reckon its a software/firmware problem.

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[Lenny HB]

Took the tram to Benidorm today, jesus what an awful place.
No culture or character even the old town was naff. Just shops bars & restaurants, uncouthed Brit northerners everywhere it was cold 18° and light rain and they are all dressed in shorts and tee shirts, glad I'm a souther softie.
Appeared to be more northerners than Spaniards.
How on earth could anyone spend a winter there, must be mad.
We did find one quite nice bar by the beach where we had a coffee and they played decent music, Santana/Stevie Nicks/U2/Bob Martley etc.

 

[bobnick]

Not a bad effort only had one bottle of the pink stuff but I drunk most of it.
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Albir, lived there for awhile just after retirement and befor we got the villa in Busot. Nice place.

 

[Lenny HB]

It's that time again.

 

[WESTY66]

€32.60

 

[EuroTrotters]

Bearing in mind we are on mountain roads with lots of steep hills so I'm not in the best state of mind..
2 miles down the road the road is barricaded and closed with no prior warning.
It's a single carriageway road with armco on one side a bank on the other, and we are on hill.
How the feck are we supposed to turn round. Luckily there is a track on our right but its very steep, I put the suspension on high and did a twenty point turn. Except Mijhan is watching the back but while she is watching one side the other side grounds out. Not too bad scraped a garage floor support (not the first time) it's GRP so easy repair and skuffed the bottom of the rear light housing.
Managed to turn round but complete bag of nerves now.

Best motorhome we ever had.

Went anywhere, even in deep snow, Norway -27c in winter.

Only thing that let it down was the robotised gearbox, SprintShift (SprintShit)

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[MartinandBev]

€33.40

 

[Swifter]

€31.50

 

[EuroTrotters]

Was looking good started up no errors gearbox working fine.
And then it all went downhill, there is a very steep slope out of the car park about 150 to 200 yds back comes the Traction control problem we have had before. Standing on the spot engine fighting the traction control burning rubber getting nowhere.
After a few restarts managed to scrabble up the hill juddering and burning rubber engine screaming with my foot to the floor. Once it's on the flat it's fine. But not my nerves.

Since the brake fluid was changed a year ago it has been faultless until yesterday.

This is my original thread about the problem.

Fiat X290 ABS/Comformatic problems

In Spain at the moment and the van through a bit of a wobbly today. A bit of background first, a few ago months at 14000 miles ago I swapped the spare onto RHS front, the other side had about 4mm tread depth. On a few a occasions I have had the LHS front wheel tramping and the traction control...

www.motorhomefun.co.uk

Someone on that thread said they had problems with traction control when the tread depth wasn't equal on both wheels on the same axle.

Now before I left I did put the new spare on the front but the fronts had only done 7000 and both sides were acting the same so I don't think that's the reason.
When it originally did it the van had done 21k and I changed the tyres round at 10k & 20k so the wear would have been even.

Last time I took it to a well recommended Fiat Professional dealer shortcut to the result.
https://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/foru...mformatic-problems.205323/page-2#post-3631105

Reverse up ?

 

[Dutch 68]

Took the tram to Benidorm today, jesus what an awful place.
No culture or character even the old town was naff. Just shops bars & restaurants, uncouthed Brit northerners everywhere it was cold 18° and light rain and they are all dressed in shorts and tee shirts, glad I'm a souther softie.
Appeared to be more northerners than Spaniards.
How on earth could anyone spend a winter there, must be mad.
We did find one quite nice bar by the beach where we had a coffee and they played decent music, Santana/Stevie Nicks/U2/Bob Martley etc.

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Are you trying to make friends with everyone up north ? North is above Watford lol

 

[scousebird]

€36.50

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[Lenny HB]

Reverse up ?

No good if you can't turn the van round.

 

[Lenny HB]

Are you trying to make friends with everyone up north ? North is above Watford lol

I thought Watford was in the extream North.

 

[pagey]

30€ if in beni

 

[EuroTrotters]

No good if you can't turn the van round.

There is that !. Thought you may have been able to

 

[Pilote87]

Hey Lenny HB. Just where are you that you can go paddle boarding and so on, in brilliant sunshine at coming up to bed time?

Look at the time on the photos for Post#557.

j

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[Lenny HB]

Hey Lenny HB. Just where are you that you can go paddle boarding and so on, in brilliant sunshine at coming up to bed time?

Look at the time on the photos for Post#557.

j

That's the time the photo was loaded to the forum, silly boy.

 

[Pilote87]

That's the time the photo was loaded to the forum, silly boy.

It is rather a long time since I was young enough to be called a boy.

On my camera and my phone I can get it to show the time a photo was taken.

 

[Lenny HB]

It is rather a long time since I was young enough to be called a boy.

On my camera and my phone I can get it to show the time a photo was taken.

It does on the original but I use an app to resize before uploading, wast of time & data uploading full size images.

 

[daveclare]

dressed in shorts and tee shirts

You were lucky. When we made a brief visit it was much less. The southerner offering us drugs in the street made us want to leave immediately. Much better class of clothed northerners here in L'estartit.........ooh! that must be us.

Hope the gearbox doesn't give you any more grief.

 

[Bobandfay]

Can’t believe you didn’t like Benidorm bet it was the bad weather that put you of
You should do the walk to the light house in Albir you can walk it from the camp site your are staying on.

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[Lenny HB]

Weather wasn't that bad it cleared up after an hour but not a place either of us would ever want to visit again.

 

[Minxy]

Come to France Lenny ... yesterday was stonking at Sanguinet, it was lovely and warm - I even got the kayak out for a couple of hours in the afternoon before I started to be cooked! Little Minky had a maiden trip in it which surprisingly she didn't bat an eyelid at, in fact at one point I had all three pooches in it.

 

[Lenny HB]

Forgot to mention the dreaded mobility scooters, tandem versions with over weight people on them that are obviously not disabled just lazy.
Leaflets for mobility scooter hire in the tourist office is a first for me.

 

[Lenny HB]

Come to France Lenny ... yesterday was stonking at Sanguinet, it was lovely and warm - I even got the kayak out for a couple of hours in the afternoon before I started to be cooked! Little Minky had a maiden trip in it which surprisingly she didn't bat an eyelid at, in fact at one point I had all three pooches in it.

I thought you were ill for a moment then I noticed one of the Aires is free until May.

 

[Minxy]

I thought you were ill for a moment then I noticed one of the Aires is free until May.

According to a French chap who visited us this morning apparently the other one is also free until May, however I think he's got that wrong as I know it had a notice saying it was chargeable from April when we were there a few weeks ago.

We're not there now as we travelled to Bourg (yes it's free ) and spent a few hours this afternoon sitting about under the shade of the awning as it was too hot in the sunshine.

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