Shutdown inhibitors

The MSA function is only possible if certain requirements are met. An MSA stop is prevented if environmental influences or vehicle conditions require this.

The following shutdown inhibitors are possible from the perspective of the APM:

• Battery charge state is not plausible.

  This can have the following possible causes:

  • The intelligent battery sensor (IBS) has been disconnected from the power supply or negative battery terminal. The battery charge state cannot be determined.
  • The IBS has a malfunction (e.g. communication fault with DME/DDE).
  • There is a sustained closed-circuit current fault and it prevents an open-circuit voltage measurement to determine the battery charge state.

    Find the cause of the closed-circuit current fault.

  • The vehicle is continuously in operation and did not have an adequately long off-load phase for an open-circuit voltage measurement to determine the battery charge state.

    Let the vehicle go to sleep and leave it in the off-load state for at least 1 hour.

  • An additional current consumer is directly connected to the battery and leads to a fault in determining the battery charge state by the IBS.
• The battery charge state is too low.

  The battery charge state does not correspond to the minimum state of charge required for MSA. The battery must be charged and troubleshooting continues with the test module < Energy diagnosis >.

• Battery temperature too high.

  The battery temperature is too high to reliably determine the battery charge state.

• Excessive voltage dip during the previous MSA engine start.

  The APM continuously monitors the on-board supply voltage and especially during the engine start. The voltage fell short of a threshold value during the previous MSA engine start.

  The battery temperature is too low or the battery is possibly poorly charged: recharge the battery and continue troubleshooting with the test module < Energy diagnosis >.

• Power consumption of the switched-on consumer units is too high.

  The switched-on current consumers require too much current: MSA stops are not permitted so that the battery can be supported by the alternator.

  Switch off large current consumers (e.g. heated rear window, seat heating or heater blower) so that MSA stop are permitted once again.

The current and last four shutdown inhibitors that occurred are saved in the data of the power management.

The power management also saves the last nine shutdown inhibitor types: if a shutdown inhibitor occurs a number of times in succession, it is only examined once.