• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

USA RECALL

Sounds like we'd have to be without our bike for weeks since I believe that means sending it off to Europe. Who wants to be the guinea pig? :thinking:
 
Hopefully I'll be taking mine in tomorrow. Yes it will require 2 trips (at least) for those of us with distant Husky dealers. From what I've read on the G650GS the fix worked well as long as the relearn diagnostics were run on install.
 
I just received my letter today. You must take the complete bike to the dealer, do not remove the ECU from the bike, not sure if any dealer or the one you purchased from but I'll find out next week. In my case their are closer dealers then the one I purchased from. Leave bike at dealer, they remove ECU send it to Magnati Marelli. When dealer receive updated ECU back from MM they are required to connect the bike to a diagnostic tool to adapt the updated ECU software to the bike. Takes 7 to 10 business days. About time.
 
Hi Guys,
I'm nota real regular on here but I have a 2013 I got in Feb of 13 and I just got my letter too.... Halejulia.. but I'm like most no dealer close to me.
I've got choices like the other side of Charlotte and I'm in Fayettevile,N.C. or got to a Virginia dealer..... Same as everyone has mentioned....take bike, not just ECU....7-10 days ......I really don't want to sell I just want my 7k bike to run normally.....Well good news is they have a fix.....
Rod

Made contact with closest dealer and he was recommended by my old dealer....I made contact and am taking my Terra to them on Monday next week. They are unfortunately 3 hours away from me....Nothing like a road trip.....I'll update as soon as I get my bike back
 
RockinRod said:
Hi Guys,
I'm nota real regular on here but I have a 2013 I got in Feb of 13 and I just got my letter too.... Halejulia.. but I'm like most no dealer close to me.
I've got choices like the other side of Charlotte and I'm in Fayettevile,N.C. or got to a Virginia dealer..... Same as everyone has mentioned....take bike, not just ECU....7-10 days ......I really don't want to sell I just want my 7k bike to run normally.....Well good news is they have a fix.....
Rod
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called several other dealers closer to me, said they will fix
 
Got my notice in the mail today. My nearest dealer is 4.5 hours away. The problem I have with the recall is I had to install a ground strap between the ECU case and battery negative due to a EWS error. Will Magneti marelli still be able to reprogram the ECU due to this issue and if not what options will I be left with. What sort of dealer support can I expect because in my experience nobody has been thrilled when I've showed up seeking service. Right now I'm gonna go drink a beer and not think about this until I call the dealer Tuesday when they open. You all have a nice weekend.
 
Got both my notices today, and called my local Husky shop and they already have one in for the recall. I may wait and see how long it takes and how it works, before or if I take mine in.
 
Looks like we have to take the whole bike in to the dealer and they send the ECM to Italy unless Magneti Marelli has equipment in the USA that will reprogram it. Begs the question, how many bikes can a dealer store for a week or 10 days?
 
This is great news! Very glad to hear it. Can't wait to hear how everyone fairs on this. I would like to take m one in before my being trip this season, but we leave in two weeks, so it will have to be after that. By then perhaps a few of your ill have posted how the bike runs after the re-program. Hard to believe a reprogram form MM took 1.5+ years to get done.
 
Got my notice too. I think I will sit back and see how it goes. It is a 90 mile haul to take mine in and the last time I let a dealer work on my bike (Honda VTR 1000) they put the shock on backward and damaged the body work. Sitting in a already crowded service department and pushed outside during business hours in the rain is a bad idea in my book.
 
One thing you can do is negotiate a discounted price for the valve adjust while the bike sits waiting on the ecu update. It's there taking up space, they may negotiate.
 
Yes, and they'll probably have the valves adjusted by a rookie to make up for the discount -- but they might do than anyway!
 
...yeah, dealers are scary. My 2014 doesn't have fueling issues thank garsh.
The scary part is what they'll do (or not do) to the bike while it's in their hands.
But I'm a skeptic ;)
 
Central KY Motorsports called today and said 7-10 days. I doubt the ECU is going to Europe. More likely a US branch or subsidiary of Magnetti/Marrellli.
 
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