I hope this isn't a repeat of an earlier thread since I'm fairly new to the site.
Had a noise in my new 2013 TG engine that sounded like a loose screw rattling around inside the engine when I hit 3000 RPM in most gears. Brought it in to my dealer, they did a test ride and came back saying it was "just pinging" and nothing seriously wrong. They said they have to take the ECM chip out, send it back to Harley to be remapped for high altitude. This process can take anywhere from 10 to 15 days even if my dealer ships it overnight to them!!
This is my fourth H-D, so many of my following questions are probably rhetorical since Harley rarely does things that "make sense".
• Has anyone else run into this problem? Did the remapped chip stop the pinging?
• If Harley knows the bike is being shipped to a dealer at altitude, wouldn't (shouldn't) they map the bike correctly for altitude?
• Why don't they have "pre-mapped" chips ready to send out when they get one in so there's not such a long wait?
My next question for you is with the high altitude mapping done on the ECM, what happens when I ride in much lower elevations? I live around the Denver area, but ride all over the country.
Thanks in advance for your input.