Technical Comfortmatic question

[thetaffia]

I'm collecting a Pilote g740 next week
It's 2019 with 25000 miles
The dealer has agreed to change the clutch activation fluid as a goodwill gesture. No parts involved. Do I need to get it reprogrammed. I think not but there's a little doubt
Appreciate you reading this.

 

[growlybear]

There is a procedure which fine tunes the point at which the clutch engages, known as the kiss point. This is usually done at the same time at the dot4 fluid change.

 

[jackwhoo]

Hi,

Look on the forum for the problems with comfortmatic ducatos . You may well want to pull out of buying one . Fiat cannot fix them without charging 10s of thousands replacing everything.

They even go wrong at low mileage.

Please be warned.

Kind regards
Jack

 

[jackwhoo]

I see the moho you are thinking of buying is an A class..... even more reason not to buy comfortmatic

 

[growlybear]

I see the moho you are thinking of buying is an A class..... even more reason not to buy comfortmatic

Do you say that because of access?
There is a positive though in that there is no water ingress from the shuttle into the wiring looms which can cause a multitude of false errors...

 

[thetaffia]

The deals one so I'll have to keep my fingers crossed.

 

[MSjoberg]

I'm collecting a Pilote g740 next week
It's 2019 with 25000 miles
The dealer has agreed to change the clutch activation fluid as a goodwill gesture. No parts involved. Do I need to get it reprogrammed. I think not but there's a little doubt
Appreciate you reading this.

Normally there is no need to get it reprogrammed after a fluid change.
The "kiss point" is automatically checked at every start which slowly compensates for clutch plate wear. There is also, as mentioned above, an "accelerated kiss point calibration" procedure (and several others) that can be executed via diagnostic software e.g. Multiecuscan. These shouldn't be needed unless the robot behaves badly or in conjunction with exchange of vital components.

 

[thetaffia]

Normally there is no need to get it reprogrammed after a fluid change.
The "kiss point" is automatically checked at every start which slowly compensates for clutch plate wear. There is also, as mentioned above, an "accelerated kiss point calibration" procedure (and several others) that can be executed via diagnostic software e.g. Multiecuscan. These shouldn't be needed unless the robot behaves badly or in conjunction with exchange of vital components.

Thanks very much for your reply

 

[NeilDD]

Make sure the robot hydraulic fluid is changed as well (Tutela CS Speed) it takes about 750ml
This should be done at a minimum every 2 years.

Look in the guides section for stuff written by @Seanwinder22 who has done a series of excellent guides and YouTube videos