[Monkey888]

Was just contacted by my VW dealer/service technician today and informed that I need to book my Up! in for a "re-call".When I asked him what it was for,he had to look it up,and told me it was for an ECU update.
I then asked him what this update was meant to improve or change?
He did not know and tried to look that up also while I was on the phone.
No definitive answer was forthcoming.
He said it would take an hour/hour and a half.

Anybody else heard of this? Apologies if there is another similar thread has already been done.
Mine is a Up! 75bhp BMT,manual.

Still enjoying car and at 13,500 miles/ 9 months the engine is loosening up nicely.Becoming smoother. Am hoping with the milder weather mpg will improve. Still tends to hover around the 45mpg mark but I hope I will start to get consistent 50+mpg as it gets warmer.
No other problems, apart from slightly "groaning" rear suspension especially with people or stuff in the boot.

MM

 

[Privatedoc]

2 items have been mentioned on the forum

1. address a cooling fan cutting in too soon problem
2. making the fuel guage more linear than logarithmic !!

My 40k service is a week on sat, will ask tech guy if he knows

PD

 

[AGE1950]

At my service last month they updated the ECU for the cooling fan but did not mention the fuel gauge but did say it would not affect the fuel consumption

 

[Privatedoc]

not consumption, just the linearity of the guage....on early cars like mine it shows full for 300 miles then plummets to zero over the next 50 or so!

 

[shakotanVIP]

There was an airbag ECU recall last year, I wonder if yours missed out?