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ffcars · 02-03-2012, 11:33 PM

My car has about 160 miles on it with 6.14 loaded. On Monday it would not go into D or R. I did several hard reboots and it didn't fix it. The Altanta Fisker tech came over to my house and did another hard reboot and it worked.

So this morning I go to take the kids to school and it wouldn't go into D or R. I did a hard reboot and it worked.

Dropped off one of the kids at pre-school and when I came outside, the car wouldn't go into D or R. I tried several hard reboots and it didn't work. So there I sat in a parking lot with my hood open for 30 minutes wondering what would have happened if my wife were driving with our two small kids. This is not acceptable.

A car made in 2011 or 2012 should never leave a person stranded. Software bugs I can handle, but this is not going to be a car I can depend on until they work out this bug.

After 30 minutes I did another hard reboot and it worked. Took the car home and parked it. I'm be driving the Ford today.

Sigurd · 02-04-2012, 12:18 AM

There's obviously a PRND fault that when it did it the second time should have been reason for flat bedding it to the dealer for an in depth exam. I wonder if a "hard reboot" wipes the trouble codes out to memory? That's why I haven't done that to my car. I wanted to ensure the dealer were able to read all the codes the engine management might have thrown.
I wouldn't drive the Karma either until the dealership have given it a clean bill of health. But, you don't get any sympathy from me for having to drive your Ford GT today, you lucky dog.
Cheers,

Michael · 02-04-2012, 02:22 AM

This is the thing I am really afraid of. Remember think when just testdrove it the other day if we dared try turn it of:-)

The softwarebugs I can live with but not getting stranded...plus the thing to here "you should have bought the audi:-)

Anyone more who has been totally stranded?

ffcars · (This post was last modified: 02-04-2012 03:20 AM by ffcars.)

Update: my wife is stranded at our office. The check engine light came on while driving to the office. She used it to go a few places and the check engine light was still on. Once she got back to the office it won't go into D or R. She did to hard reboots and it didn't fix it.

I had updated my dealer with the news about this morning, and now he's going to get the rath of an angry woman. Oh, I'll get it too. I'm the idiot that convinced her to trade in her Maserati GranTurismo for the Karma. She said, I don't want to take a chance with a new company and all new technology. Like a dummy I believed the hype that Fisker put out----using existing technology used for the military, the guy running the company designed several great cars, etc. I will pay for this for a long time; thanks Henrick.

This is not cool. Does anyone else have 6.14 loaded? Are you having any problems?

Thanks

**Fabulist** · 02-04-2012, 04:09 AM

That's absolutely not cool and not acceptable. I am running 6.13.5 and the drive system has been absolutely solid so far. I am actually a bit surprised that the service tech didn't just drive your car to the dealer once he got it started. Maybe you can have them downgrade your software to 6.13.5 until they get 6.14 sorted.

-- Fab.

SoCalGuy · 02-04-2012, 04:48 AM

(02-04-2012 04:09 AM)Fabulist Wrote: That's absolutely not cool and not acceptable. I am running 6.13.5 and the drive system has been absolutely solid so far. I am actually a bit surprised that the service tech didn't just drive your car to the dealer once he got it started. Maybe you can have them downgrade your software to 6.13.5 until they get 6.14 sorted.

-- Fab.

I'm running 6.12 and have had no major issues/bugs. Now I'm very worried about "upgrading" to 6.13 or 6.14. From what I've been reading, sounds like a big 'downgrade' to me.

dennis · 02-04-2012, 05:15 AM

(02-04-2012 04:48 AM)SoCalGuy Wrote: I'm running 6.12 and have had no major issues/bugs. Now I'm very worried about "upgrading" to 6.13 or 6.14. From what I've been reading, sounds like a big 'downgrade' to me.

6.13.5 is fine.

dennis · (This post was last modified: 02-04-2012 09:15 AM by dennis.)

(02-03-2012 11:33 PM)ffcars Wrote: My car has about 160 miles on it with 6.14 loaded. On Monday it would not go into D or R. I did several hard reboots and it didn't fix it.

I just got off the phone with HQ Consumer Affairs and was informed that 6.14 has NOT been released, so it is unlikely that is the software version installed on your car.

She said that the engineers were currently in a meeting discussing the 6.14 release date, and that she would update me when they have a firm date.

ffcars · 02-04-2012, 11:05 AM

(02-04-2012 09:09 AM)dennis Wrote:
(02-03-2012 11:33 PM)ffcars Wrote: My car has about 160 miles on it with 6.14 loaded. On Monday it would not go into D or R. I did several hard reboots and it didn't fix it.

I just got off the phone with HQ Consumer Affairs and was informed that 6.14 has NOT been released, so it is unlikely that is the software version installed on your car.

She said that the engineers were currently in a meeting discussing the 6.14 release date, and that she would update me when they have a firm date.

You may be right, but the service rep said my car was the first to have 6.14 installed in the southeast. He may be wrong.

Karma 2012 · 02-04-2012, 11:57 AM

Who was the service tech? Was it Atlanta Fisker? You have me concerned now.