Need help understanding "New" codes in Paccar engine.

I've read all 14 pages of this thread, and from the moment I started reading about Guntoter's problems, I almost knew for certain he has an electric problem. A bad connection, a broken wire, water in a connector, name it. When you get all kind of strange errors, it's usually something like that. The problem is that most mechanics don't understand that. They want to fix something mechanical, but there is nothing to fix. What you need is electrician, someone who can identify problems in electric circuits. How many truck shops have such an electrician?

 

Almost all shops have certified electrcians but nobody could find Guntoter's problems... and Guntoter is not the only operator in USA who lost money and had big headache because of your fancy mx-13...keep searching in this forum and you will see more victims of euro engineered engines.

 

DAF wouldn't be the #1 tractor seller in Europe if these MX engines are bad. It's more likely a matter of bad cabling. The engines are fine. If you use cheap connectors, if you don't protect everything against moisture, you can get these problems.

Let me give you an example. I had a problem with the electric door locks of my car. The dealer replaced one and told me another one wasn't very good either. Then a few months later more problems, and he said more locks needed to be replaced. I said no way, it is an electric problem, find it. It took them several weeks (I didn't need the car anyway because of an eye problem), and then they found a badly corroded $ 0.10 wire connector.

 

I have these code do you wat it means bpv diag slmp data

 

Control chassis node. Thats the problem with mine. Just go under and pull the harness off and look in it. Mine was so corroded that 2 pins were corroded right off. One was the pin that controls the windshield washer....oh it is also same pin that controls scr system so wash my windows and then I would get a ton of lights and derate. They finally found it when my exhaust broke under the cab and melted an airline right with all the harness. They had to unplug to get to the airline and that's how they found the problem. Who knew right. Also that node is $1400 bucks on average.

 

Oh yea! Bring on the self driving trucks! This is just the beginning. We spent 10 years trying to miniaturize a 100 year old automated factory process. Looked easy on paper, mostly off the shelf parts. Spent about $50 millon and a world wide staff. At the end of the day electronics were the hold up. Sensors, glitches, mysterious codes no one could figure out etc, etc. we could make about %50 of them run reliably but %20 finally just had to be scraped. The other %30 were never ending problems. Needless to say there are 4 other companies over the past 10 years trying the same thing but have not even made it to market yet. Making 2 trucks self drive is one thing. Making 4 million is another. The companies that build them will survive and prosper with 0 urgency on the backs of the operators.

Sorry, rant over.