than you can shake a stick at.
Driving all sorts of work vehicles (trucks) at the moment, and have had the pleasure today of one of the many 3 year old trucks on rent currently.
Get used to all sorts of misleading spurious warnings, there's more systems than enough on the things, the usual one is to tell you that one of the various indicator bulbs have failed...they haven't, or that the charging system has failed, or you name it.
One came on today and wouldn't go off, a yellow warning light labelled ECM...had a nose in the book, pages of possible dash messages but ECM doesn't feature, i've left it for the fitters to work out...oh and to top the oil up which bizarrely needs the cab to be tilted.
I won't bore you with a report on the most unresponsive automated manual box i've yet used, or the hill hold function that applies for a second...whilst after releasing the footbrake it takes 3 seconds before responding to re-applied throttle (several same make identical, chocolate teapot?).
OK boys and girls, what does the message 'ECM' mean?
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Electronic Counter Measures - if they've failed you're now a sitting duck for guided missiles.
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Never thought of that one F, glad i won't be back there till Monday.;)
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It will be a pod something like this that you've not noticed on the inside of the chassis...
www.vipersinthestorm.com/assets/images/ALQ-131_Podt.JPG
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I have no idea so I asked Google
It could be...
Engine Control Module or Engine Cranking Mode or Error Correction Model
maybe Endothelial Cell Multimerin
or the one to worry about Expendable Crew Member
The site says "We have 250 other definitions for ECM in our Acronym Attic"
in case you are still worried :-(
I love these clever devices. I was stationary at some temporary traffic lights a few minutes ago and was amused by the speed detection unit just to left of my car that was flashing 4mph and a smile !
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My own thought was the it stood for European Carp Motor.
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>> Electronic Counter Measures - if they've failed you're now a sitting duck for guided missiles.
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Time to fire the chaff
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>> Time to fire the chaff
He can't, Empty Chaff Magazine light's on
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What make is this GB ?
Faulty ECM can be the cause of the hundred and one warning lights.
Was the speedo reading OK ?
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Todays particular example of what happens when too much electronic garbage gets fitted to an industrial working machine was an Iveco.
This ECM notice was apart from the tiny yellow warning triangle (to get your attention) the only thing, and nowt in the book, so i imagine it'll be an expensive session on diagnostics.
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>> Todays particular example ... was an Iveco
Shame, I'd have put money on it being a MAN.
Every single one of ours (we have 13, plus half a dozen older ones without an info display) flags up some bizarre warning or other when I start it. "EDC diagnosis" usually, doesn't mean anything.
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>>>messages but ECM doesn't feature, i've left it for the fitters to work out <<<<
Take the bulb out?
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Take the bulb out
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>>>>.cant
led innit
:-(
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I take it Expendable Crew Member refers to the one in Star Trek, whom we've never seen before but who gets to join the regulars for a day out on a dangerous planet. If only his mother was there to warn him...
I got a warning message this morning when I turned the key in the Volvo. Right rear door open, it read. I checked; it was. I shut it; the message disappeared. That's the way to do it.
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>> Take the bulb out
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>> >>>>.cant
>> led innit
>> :-(
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Even a led will succumb to a pair of pliers :)
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What's the betting there's a warning bulb removed warning bulb somewhere, then there's the triangle warning bulb to let you know there's a warning bulb lit.
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Ok I give up,... but on second thoughts get out the tin of black bitumastic paint!
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Stop moaning, every day is like christmas in your job now.
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Reminds me of the Dave Allen talking car sketch.
He gets in car.
Voice: Fasten seat belt. Fasten seat belt.
He does.
Voice: Rear door open. Rear door open.
He gets out and shuts it, gets back in.
Voice:Fasten seat belt. Fasten seat belt.
He does.
Voice: Boot unlocked. Boot unlocked...
etc etc
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In 1984 an Avianca Airlines jet crashed in Spain. Accident investigators found the cockpit voice recorders and discovered that several minutes before impact a shrill, computer-generated voice from the plane's automatic warning system had told the crew repeatedly in English, "Pull up! Pull up!"
The pilot, evidently thinking the system was malfunctioning, snapped, "Shut up, Gringo!" and switched the system off. Minutes later the plane plowed into the side of a mountain. Everyone on board died.
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Could be worse; my plane calls me a "retard" at least once a day. :-)
Thinking back, the worst car for this was my dad's Daewoo Leganza, which had a very soothing "bong" which it unfortunately used for every possible warning available. Usually it didn't stop until out of the drive!
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More warning messages - Focusless
