Millenium bug in ECU...?
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Not to rant, but...
Why would a car care what year it was? Would it be worth Audi's time and money to set the car's internal clock correctly on the production line? And if they did, why does my analog clock need me to set it for daylight savings? There is no reason for a car to know the time, day, month, or year. Therefore, Audi wouldn't have wasted money on letting the car know the time, day, month, or year. Therefore, I cannot imagine in my wildest dreams how the year 2000 could effect the car that doesn't even know what a year is.
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Doesn't mean they did anything about it. My company is in the final stages of Y2K testing now and into Q1 99. . .
There's actually a proposal in Congress to give the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) the right to seize assests of banks that are not compliant by mid-99 and auction them off to banks that are in compliance.<p>Of course it hasn't been voted on cause they're busy impeaching, but I digress.<p>My point is that just cause companies have known about it for years doesn't mean all products are good to go.
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No Date-Tracking Clock in ECU
The ECU doesn't track the date. It DOES keep track of the number of days going by, so it has a clock in that sense. It uses this information for the service indicators and probably other functions. When you get a new ECU, the date IS NOT input into it (and neither is the time of day). If the thing kept track of the date, that would have to be done. (There is no internal battery in the ECU).<p>Your Audi will have no clue when the year 2000 arrives.<p>Just for laughs, some of the dumber things I have heard will fail on January 1, 2000:<p>Flashlights. (after all, they are electrical, right?)<br>Batteries, car type, AA, and others. (Your car wouldn't start for this reason alone!)<br>Home water heaters (I'm not even talking about the ones with timers attached).<br>Sprinkler system timers (even though they don't have the year programmed into them!)<br>But it doesn't matter, because space aliens will be coming to destroy us on that day anyway. Obviously, space aliens from other stars are tracking, and care about, our earthly, arbitrarty, date system. Since all of this is established fact, and our A4s won't work anymore, anyone want to beat the rush and sell their A4 real cheap right now?<br>