No.
When I installed mine I left all as is. I have the compression dampening control on mine too.
The self levelling works just fine, the only issue is when I want to raise the rear while mobile and via the controls, it goes into fault mode because the air bag compressor is working against the dampening in the shock. I had always set the ride height and allowed the system to set level before I take off anyway so it was only when I was tinkering that I came across this issue. With the air bag unable to set ride height and levelling, handling suffered.
If there's not enough air in the bag, and you try to adjust the bag using the controls (if you're on an RT that's got controls!
) you'll often get an error message. IIRC, it's usually something along the lines of an orange 'Manual' that shows up where the High/Low or Soft/Hard indicator would be, and it can also light up if your compressor has given up the ghost or the height control unit has failed.
Still, if you're getting a warning/error message while trying to use the controls to adjust ride height on the go, it's generally a sign that your Spyder's self levelling ACS
ISN'T working just fine, or you wouldn't get that failure indicator/warning! However, it often helps if you simply make sure that there's about 15-30'ish psi minimum in the bag
before you start riding. The bad news is that
if by doing that, whatever pressure you've set has increased the ride height to something that's above the computer's pre-set ride height, then just as soon as you start riding, the computer will direct the ACS to drop the air pressure in the bag to reduce your ride height to its pre-programmed level, and all your 'pre-ride height/pressure setting' air will be dumped out of the air bag before you truly get to enjoy or maybe even realise it!
So be careful how much air pressure you add, and remember that it's because of this 'revert to the pre-set level' thing (which pretty much means that the manual 'height adjust' or 'Hard/soft' adjust controls are basically useless, cos regardless of what you adjust them to, it won't be long before the system will automatically revert to the computer stored pre-set pretty anyway - seconds of riding, usually!
) that many simply do away with the 'auto' part of the ACS, by-passing the problematic ride height sensor & compressor and instead, running an air line direct from the Schraeder valve under the seat into the air bag so that they can add air as & when they desire thru the valve themselves, setting the pressure/ride height they want and then ride on, knowing that the 'auto' system won't over-ride their chosen settings within the first few hundred metres of riding as it does if it's left to its own devices!
Or they fit an after market shock & coil combination that is actually able to carry the load of a rider &/or pillion & any gear without requiring the assistance of the air bag to work as a functioning shock/coil even at the most basic level completely without any assistance from the air bag to set ride height.
Like so many other things on our Spyders, the ACS as she is delivered from BRP is a great concept, but yet another example of p*** poor execution!
