Just a little background: 2015 SL, bought July 2015, Vin 3541..... 800 miles into the journey, I got CEL with a Cam Phaser X 65571 code. Umpteen trips to the dealer, eventual cam sensor replacement- the code finally cleared itself, approximately 3500 miles later. Almost 10,000 miles of pure driving enjoyment- code free. About 3 1/2 weeks ago CEL code 65557 Cam messages lost. It went away, and came back a day or two later, with a vengeance. In addition to the engine code, I had intermittent lights- traction control, brake failure, and one other. Then, for no apparent reason while driving- the gauges cycled all the way to the right and back to normal, and my screen said "booting"....... During this time, Power steering flickered off and the radio volume changed. (Multiple occurrences.) On March 23, it went to the dealer. He replaced the battery cables, checked fuses and took it for a test drive. Bingo-it failed. (now, ya'll know that it never does that when you want to!) Step-by-step diagnostics pointed to a bad ESP unit. Polaris finally shipped one. Installed and out for another test drive. It failed again. This time, the failure was a little bit different- the gauges cycled in slow motion, and the radio screen changed over to navigation. (really- Navigation? Wouldn't know how to use that if my life depended on it.) The geniuses at Polaris wanted him to do a full wire by wire inspection of the chassis harness. Two thirds of the way through the inspection, the tech found two radio wires with very small cuts in them. His comment to me was that they "smell funky". So now, I wait for Polaris to ship the new radio harness. (really weird because my back up camera still works fine.) When I spoke to the tech this morning, I asked if he could be proactive, pull that harness, and test drive the hell out of unit. I called back to double-check: Polaris Eng. said good idea- he had not thought about that. I am just trying to shave some time off having my sling in the shop......
Just a note-in deference to my dealer. I did not buy my slingshot there. I take it there for warranty issues. I did purchase an extended warranty there, with the dealer matching they 25% off right that was available by by someone on the old site. Because this is dealer is absolutely awesome- he loaned me his demo unit. It has its own set of issues, but that is another thread, and the tech was totally unaware of the demo condition.
I really have my doubts as to whether this is the entire problem with the sling, but a thought just hit me:
Wouldn't it really be the shits if the crappy freaking radio, that only gets one channel decent reception with a maximum of 50 mile radius, was the culprit????????