Right! Most likely the van already has the newest (2012) update since ages ago.
A firmware update wouldn't be to "update" anything; it's simply a means of reverting the van to a factory setting/mapping, and "delete the egr-delete", so to say

From what I could gather across the web (nothing "AI", just various forums etc), it seems that vans that have egr mapped out run into a brick wall of trouble trying to complete the learns. That may also be true for vans that have egr blanked off but not mapped out.
However, there's some differing voices, and I don't consider it fully conclusive. It could for instance be that the seeming incompatability of egr being mapped out vs successfully completing the learns is more nuanced; ie that there is some more sofisticated way to map out egr without disturbing the ability to complete pump and pilot injector learns. I really don't know, and would love some definite authority on the technicals of it

In the mean time, I'm dealing with the not uncommon "pump learn fail at 46%" phenomena with my 2010 transit now, which has egr mapped out. My prime suspect is the egr delete. Hopefully my investigations will provide some answers.
From the various forum cases, the solution often involves mapping and the pcm, but many also are left "unsolved", like the thread right here, where the issue was solved but who knows how?
Sometimes these issues present themselves like the second final chapter of some Agatha Christie, begging for a curious eye. On the other hand, maybe the "case" was solved forever ago, and this is just my uneducated buttocks going for a wild emu chase?
PS, forums tell me the FEPS 18V on 13th pin interface was only on gasoline models in the, say, post 2005 era. An obvious case where many learned might know the definite answer, but to my amateur bumblings it's a "current best known theory"

Cheers, McGilvray
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