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Doing away with DESS using BUDS Megatech
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FlyingBoat
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I recently bought a 2014 RTL. I have been reading about the DESS issue, and having had a car in the past with a similar issue, wanted to get it resolved.
I never had the DESS message pop up.
Last night, my wife who nearly never rides it, pulled in from the driveway into the garage.
I go to start it up and for the first time ever, got the dreaded DESS message.
What she did different than I, is she stopped the Spyder with the kill switch and left it off. I never do that. When I went to start it, the kill switch was still in the kill position, when I got the message.
Next try, with kill switch fixed, it started up fine without the message.
So, I wonder if using the kill switch to stop has something to do with the DESS error.
I wasn't able to repeat it. Just thinking it might have something to do with the random error coming up.
Anyway, would still like to get this fixed somehow. Haven't found anyone in Minnesota with Buds/Megatech.
I never had the DESS message pop up.
Last night, my wife who nearly never rides it, pulled in from the driveway into the garage.
I go to start it up and for the first time ever, got the dreaded DESS message.
What she did different than I, is she stopped the Spyder with the kill switch and left it off. I never do that. When I went to start it, the kill switch was still in the kill position, when I got the message.
Next try, with kill switch fixed, it started up fine without the message.
So, I wonder if using the kill switch to stop has something to do with the DESS error.
I wasn't able to repeat it. Just thinking it might have something to do with the random error coming up.
Anyway, would still like to get this fixed somehow. Haven't found anyone in Minnesota with Buds/Megatech.
There's been a LOT of discussion & testing (both voluntary and involuntary testing! :banghead: ) on this issue since it first started occurring - the overwhelming results show that these recurring DESS Errors have NOTHING to do with the Kill Switch &/or how you stop the Spyder; but they do have EVERYTHING to do with the key & the antenna for DESS itself & how the necessary code gets swamped &/or misread/corrupted in the process of trying to start the Spyder.
There have been a few who've had reasonable success in replacing some or all of the components involved, but they generally get cut-off from any further support from BRP after the first or second replacement; and there's almost always 'another' DESS failure eventually! There've been even fewer who've had some success by relocating the module itself, largely so that its replacement is easier when it fails (yet again, as it most likely will!
). But really, the only 'reliable' solution found to date that is guaranteed to ensure you never get caught out a long way from home on a Spyder with a DESS issue which won't let you start it at all, is turning the DESS off completely! :cus:
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