MN Triton slow take off fixed

[tryhard]

Hi guys

A few of us have mentioned how the MN 2.5 has tons of grunt but is very sluggish taking off from a standing start.

Just did the 1500 km service and told the dealer service dept - they did the following :
"Performed Hotline Fix" and "Carried out fuel small quantity learn".

Whatever that means, it is 80% better now. Still feels a bit slow off the mark, but NOTHING like it was before. More than acceptable

See if you can get your stealer to do the same if yours if super sluggish too - might work

Cheers
Carl

[cyberhonky]

wonder how long till the hotline fix comes out saying 'installed 3.2TD'

[ag9111]

Be nice Cyber

[tryhard]

wonder how long till the hotline fix comes out saying 'installed 3.2TD'

Sorry mate but I still prefer this to my previous 3.2 TD - too many things to like about it's overall performance and handling. I do agree though in most other things in life if someone is 0.7 bigger they're better off

[ag9111]

Dont you mean 1.7 bigger. I dont know yet, the dealer and insurance Co can't get there s*t together so i cant get my truck.

[Homer]

Good to see mate. Sounded like fuel delivery.
I wonder how they get out of the factory like that? By that I mean all cars with minor gremlins.
They surely drive the nuts off 'em in testing and you'd imagine giving it the berries would be one of the first thing a test driver would do.

Anyway, good news!

[tryhard]

Dont you mean 1.7 bigger. I dont know yet, the dealer and insurance Co can't get there s*t together so i cant get my truck.

Oh yeah ... see it's just like real life, I'm trying to make the difference less obvious

[tryhard]

Good to see mate. Sounded like fuel delivery.
I wonder how they get out of the factory like that? By that I mean all cars with minor gremlins.
They surely drive the nuts off 'em in testing and you'd imagine giving it the berries would be one of the first thing a test driver would do.

Anyway, good news!

Bugga'd if I know mate. Admittedly the slow take off was more noticeable if you had a car coming towards you ... which might not happen on the test track, and the boost after a couple of seconds might make a typical test driver think the whole thing was go-quick.

I forgot to mention there was a factory recall - for the freakin sunvisors !! They apparently swapped them for the ones I was 'meant' to get - they look the same but the passenger gets a mirror on back. What a waste of effort .. would have been better spent on the tuning and performance

[Greedy]

[quote="tryhardI forgot to mention there was a factory recall - for the freakin sunvisors !! They apparently swapped them for the ones I was 'meant' to get - they look the same but the passenger gets a mirror on back. What a waste of effort ..[/quote]
Should've been on the driver's side huh.

[jop]

I thought mitsu would get it right second time round - sounds like more of the same to me

[DEC06]

Well I wrote my ML V6 Auto off on Monday, well the truck side swiping me, spinning the vehicle and hitting a concrete light pole and a security fence, before rolling onto its side did really..........yesterday I had the opportunity to drive the dealers personal MN demo 2.5 GXL-R. It had apparently had just had its 1500k service. (it has 1600 odd on the clock)

All I can say is they either didn't do the hot fix for the delay, OR the delay that you guys were talking about last month must have been extreme!

I am going back tomorrow morning to give it another try, but to me it was plain dangerous, and I don't think I have ever said that about any car before. there was a good 2 seconds of almost nothing when trying to move away from a stationary position.

once away, she was great, there was plenty of acceleration, the trim level was the same as my ML, they have moved the rear power window switch from the centre console, to up in front of the gear boxes. Like wise the aux power is now in the centre console "box" (with the addition of RCA inputs) instead of on the outside of the console.

the fuel figure on the display was reading 14l per 100km.....I really hope that was incorrect

why the hell they dropped the V6 is beyond me.

cheers Jason

[tryhard]

All I can say is they either didn't do the hot fix for the delay, OR the delay that you guys were talking about last month must have been extreme!

yours sounds like the delay pre-fix mate. Mine didn't get sorted till the 1500 km service and they seemed surprised when I mentioned it, so I reckon just not enough people bleating about it yet ... it should be a recall item, not the sunvisors !

[DEC06]

All I can say is they either didn't do the hot fix for the delay, OR the delay that you guys were talking about last month must have been extreme!

yours sounds like the delay pre-fix mate. Mine didn't get sorted till the 1500 km service and they seemed surprised when I mentioned it, so I reckon just not enough people bleating about it yet ... it should be a recall item, not the sunvisors !

well I am taking your word for it Tryhard.....order placed for the silver....just got to give my finance broke a quick kick in the ribs.


cheers Jason

[tryhard]

All I can say is they either didn't do the hot fix for the delay, OR the delay that you guys were talking about last month must have been extreme!

yours sounds like the delay pre-fix mate. Mine didn't get sorted till the 1500 km service and they seemed surprised when I mentioned it, so I reckon just not enough people bleating about it yet ... it should be a recall item, not the sunvisors !

well I am taking your word for it Tryhard.....

I think you'll be happy Jason ... it's not an Evo7 but it's a bloody good drive in general (parking at Indooroopilly Shoppingtown was a bastard today though - everyone had their front jutting over into my space, which meant, even with towball removed, me sticking out about 2 feet into the traffic - wish I had that excessive length problem everywhere else !)

Cheers Carl

[DEC06]

well I am finally driving her.

The slow take off that I experienced on the dealer's demo vehicle is not there......obviously the demo had not had the "update".

Now to set her up like my ML was.

cheers Jason

[sierra]

Just in case you need a little bit more than the extra 30% mitsubishi has coaxed out of the 2.5 there's still some scope left in case anyone thought it was near its limit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtXi3PpoLXs

2.5 100kw 314Nm [mine ]
2.5HP 131kw 400Nm
2.5 Powerlab 270kw 640Nm

Slightly warm after the turbo as it peaked but quiet.
No problem with the warranty, unless they notice the turbo is a teeny bit bigger when they try to close the bonnet?
Very

[Calvin Klein]

Hi All

I've had my new Triton for 3 weeks now and overall I'm happy with my purchase.
It's an Ironback coloured, dual cab GLX-R, 5spd auto, 2.5 diesel, with a full hard cover.
I find it very comfortable to drive (particularly on long distances on the motorway), surprisingly quiet and it has very good handling (for a truck) in the wet when in AWD mode.
The only gripe I have is the terrible sluggishness from a standing start. At uncontrolled intersections or roundabouts I dont dare take the risk of trying a quick crossing, especially with my young daughter in the back. I've had a couple of frights passing in front of a column of high speed approaching traffic.

I took it in for my 1500km service this morning and mentioned that I wanted the ECU fix mentioned here (my guess was that they deliberately cut the take-off power back as part of the engine "running-in" procedure)
They claimed to know nothing of the problem but assured me that any software updates would be applied to the computer.
However after the work was performed, the service guy claimed there were no software updates at all for my model and after test driving it said that mine was typical of all the models.

However ...

1 - As some forum members here state, they have received a software fix that improves take-off performance
2 - I certainly dont recall the demo model I test drove several weeks back having this issue. In fact the relatively quick take-off was something that impressed me compared to the sluggish takeoff of the Ford Ranger I was also interested in.
Naturally the Mitsubishi sales / service guys are claiming that they wouldnt apply any such updates to a demo model but I dont believe them - they are car salesmen, afterall
The service guy suggested I ask forum members who have had the fix applied what model of Triton they have.
Mine is KB4TGJYHZPR8

I intend to take this matter up further with Mitsubishi.

Cheers, Kelvin

[tryhard]

Hi All

I've had my new Triton for 3 weeks now and overall I'm happy with my purchase.
It's an Ironback coloured, dual cab GLX-R, 5spd auto, 2.5 diesel, with a full hard cover.
I find it very comfortable to drive (particularly on long distances on the motorway), surprisingly quiet and it has very good handling (for a truck) in the wet when in AWD mode.
The only gripe I have is the terrible sluggishness from a standing start. At uncontrolled intersections or roundabouts I dont dare take the risk of trying a quick crossing, especially with my young daughter in the back. I've had a couple of frights passing in front of a column of high speed approaching traffic.

I took it in for my 1500km service this morning and mentioned that I wanted the ECU fix mentioned here (my guess was that they deliberately cut the take-off power back as part of the engine "running-in" procedure)
They claimed to know nothing of the problem but assured me that any software updates would be applied to the computer.
However after the work was performed, the service guy claimed there were no software updates at all for my model and after test driving it said that mine was typical of all the models.

However ...

1 - As some forum members here state, they have received a software fix that improves take-off performance
2 - I certainly dont recall the demo model I test drove several weeks back having this issue. In fact the relatively quick take-off was something that impressed me compared to the sluggish takeoff of the Ford Ranger I was also interested in.
Naturally the Mitsubishi sales / service guys are claiming that they wouldnt apply any such updates to a demo model but I dont believe them - they are car salesmen, afterall
The service guy suggested I ask forum members who have had the fix applied what model of Triton they have.
Mine is KB4TGJYHZPR8

I intend to take this matter up further with Mitsubishi.

Cheers, Kelvin

Tell 'em to phone Toowong Mitsubishi service manager mate. The notation on mine from when it was fixed, is as shown earlier in this thread. That might jog their memory. It definitely addressed the sluggishness.