❔ QUESTION New software update last week - who’s had it?

[Andrew P]

Interested to know who has got the update done. Did you have issues beforehand and have they been fixed? Any new or remaining issues? Mine is booked in for 2 weeks time.

 

[Andrea]

Interested to know who has got the update done. Did you have issues beforehand and have they been fixed? Any new or remaining issues? Mine is booked in for 2 weeks time.

Software update? Do you know the changes?

 

[KJWEmira]

Mine is booked in for 12th Feb for the update(s). After the previous software updates (sept 2023), the car then failed to start on many, many occasions which I'd not experienced before. So, in short I've waited 5 months for this software to be released so the car hopefully becomes much more reliable. Awaiting feedback from another guy on a different group chat that's had it done.

 

[Mistral]

My car is going in tomorrow for it's 12 month service with 6250 miles/10,000km completed. I haven't had the starting issues. I'll ask what the update addresses.

 

[GAVLA]

My car is going in tomorrow for it's 12 month service with 6250 miles/10,000km completed. I haven't had the starting issues. I'll ask what the update addresses.

I haven't had the starting issues either and my annual service is coming up in March, so it would be good to know some more about what the software update addresses and whether you reckon its advisable given the issues other owners have experienced following their own updates.

 

[Andrew P]

I haven't had the starting issues either and my annual service is coming up in March, so it would be good to know some more about what the software update addresses and whether you reckon its advisable given the issues other owners have experienced following their own updates.

It definitely addresses the non-starting issue that many have (but not you). That has been directly confirmed to me by Lotus. They don’t publish what else is covered. I suspect cold starting issues may be part of it. The dealer feedback so far is that it works / hasn’t caused other issues. By mid Feb / March it will be clear from all the people having it whether there are any issues. I will post an update early Feb when mine is done.

 

[Bones25]

I had the software update last week. I was having cold start problems and these continued to occur after the software update. I was told by the dealer that the changes were to increase tolerances in the engine management to avoid minor engine error reporting
As I said, cold start stalls are still occurring randomly

 

[Honcho]

I’ve had the update. No problems. I keep my car charging while parked.

 

[Porter]

I had the software update last week. I was having cold start problems and these continued to occur after the software update. I was told by the dealer that the changes were to increase tolerances in the engine management to avoid minor engine error reporting
As I said, cold start stalls are still occurring randomly

Have you tried any kind of fuel additive? Including, for example, any of the additives designed to stabilize fuel that may have gained a trace amount of water somehow?

 

[Andrew P]

The January software update appears to have fixed the starting issue from the update applied last summer - so far mine has worked fine. The occasional cold start stall on 1st press of starter is still under investigation so hopefully there will be a fix for that soon. At least this is intermittent and starts on 2nd push

 

[Jimblob]

I’ve had the update. No problems. I keep my car charging while parked.

Same here no issues since most recent update last week - but the non-starting issues was very intermittent for me so time will tell.

 

[Bilbao-Emira]

Same here. No issue about intermittent start anymore so far.