P38 OBDII grrrr

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magictiny

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I took posetion of a shiny new MSV2 Faultmate today - after all the too ing a fro ing to get it licenced etc. I settled down this evening to start REALLY seeing what might be wrong with the car.

I got it to talk to the HEVAC and the Suspension, but that was all - everything else came up with "could not communicate with the ECU"

Hmm - looked at the connector, bit crappy so out came the cleaner and cleaned the connections... still no joy.

Out came RAVE, looked at the pin outs - something doesn't ring true here...

Closer inspection... there is a Citreon logo on the socket!
Looked a bit further up the cable and the wires change colour!

Some numpty has changed the socket over and spliced the wires wrong!

I don't blooming believe it! How am I supposed to re-wire this - I'm bloomin colour blind :doh:

:mil25:Blooming cowboys :mil46:

Now I will have to get an OBDII plug off a breaker and splice it in properly - using someone else eyes :eek:
 
i feel for you!!! just when you think your doing something good for the p38 it kicks you in the boll**ks and says no sir your having a look at my settings!!!!
 
I've heard around here that you can get a discount on a Faultmate by being a member here but have never seen how. Did you get a discount? How?
 
"For the benifit of viewers watching in black and white the pink ball is the one immediatly behind the green".
 
magictiny said:
I took posetion of a shiny new MSV2 Faultmate today - after all the too ing a fro ing to get it licenced etc. I settled down this evening to start REALLY seeing what might be wrong with the car.

I got it to talk to the HEVAC and the Suspension, but that was all - everything else came up with "could not communicate with the ECU"

Hmm - looked at the connector, bit crappy so out came the cleaner and cleaned the connections... still no joy.

Out came RAVE, looked at the pin outs - something doesn't ring true here...

Closer inspection... there is a Citreon logo on the socket!
Looked a bit further up the cable and the wires change colour!

Some numpty has changed the socket over and spliced the wires wrong!

I don't blooming believe it! How am I supposed to re-wire this - I'm bloomin colour blind :doh:

:mil25:Blooming cowboys :mil46:

Now I will have to get an OBDII plug off a breaker and splice it in properly - using someone else eyes :eek:
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How do you know there wrong then?:D:D:D
 
magictiny said:
Now I will have to get an OBDII plug off a breaker and splice it in properly - using someone else eyes :eek:
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Of course the other option is to make a short x-over cable that does the remapping for you, save you faffing around with the loom. If you were adventurous you could put it in a little box with the male on one side the female on the other and a dual set of terminals inside. This would then allow you to re-wire to any configuration should the occasion arise again.

Gawd these 10p worths soon add up this is costing me a fortune!
 
woogoo said:
Of course the other option is to make a short x-over cable that does the remapping for you, save you faffing around with the loom. If you were adventurous you could put it in a little box with the male on one side the female on the other and a dual set of terminals inside. This would then allow you to re-wire to any configuration should the occasion arise again.

Gawd these 10p worths soon add up this is costing me a fortune!
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Nah - wire cutters is the way forward - I don't need and other configurations having just shelled out £570 on a Faultmate :cool:
 
Best of luck with the Faultmate, good decision:cool:

Make sure you get stuck into the forum, not the same kind of craic you get around here but really good solid info there.
 
Holy crap
I really do have to add a comment of appreciation here that for once we are not being automatically blamed for our equimpment being the problem:doh:
 
magictiny said:
I took posetion of a shiny new MSV2 Faultmate today - after all the too ing a fro ing to get it licenced etc. I settled down this evening to start REALLY seeing what might be wrong with the car.

I got it to talk to the HEVAC and the Suspension, but that was all - everything else came up with "could not communicate with the ECU"

Hmm - looked at the connector, bit crappy so out came the cleaner and cleaned the connections... still no joy.

Out came RAVE, looked at the pin outs - something doesn't ring true here...

Closer inspection... there is a Citreon logo on the socket!
Looked a bit further up the cable and the wires change colour!

Some numpty has changed the socket over and spliced the wires wrong!

I don't blooming believe it! How am I supposed to re-wire this - I'm bloomin colour blind :doh:

:mil25:Blooming cowboys :mil46:

Now I will have to get an OBDII plug off a breaker and splice it in properly - using someone else eyes :eek:
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Not 100%, but there was a part number for just the last section of the OBDII wiring/plug. I think the water ingress onto the multiplug was such a problem, LR decided to put a TSB together. Can't find it now though.
 
BBS Guy said:
Holy crap
I really do have to add a comment of appreciation here that for once we are not being automatically blamed for our equimpment being the problem:doh:
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No - the Faultmate does what it says on the tin :D I am very happy with it - especially as when I plugged it in with the mechanic looking over my shoulder and said "let's look at the faults on the HVAC" - it came up with a condesor sensor fault - we didn't even know the car had one!

HVAC now fixed, I just need to swap out the OBDII socket for a Landrover one :doh:
 
BBS Guy said:
Holy crap
I really do have to add a comment of appreciation here that for once we are not being automatically blamed for our equimpment being the problem:doh:
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It's better than you think .. it showed that the socket was wired wrong :) how cool is that !
 
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