RangeRoller dt
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Was something like that. Sure you lot told me
P38A Immobiliser removel
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Gives about 170/175 BHP and same torque as a 4.0 petrol. Obviously no fuel saving if you use the power around town or in traffic light sprints, but a few MPG saved at a steady motorway speed in torque lock.
RangeRoller dt
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Think you said it can be soldered in yourself?
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You need the right equipment to solder a chip in and if it's not a piggy back job you need the equipment to de-solder the original chip. Very easy to destroy chips with static and eddy currents from the wrong sort of soldering iron.
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Thankyou
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I thought you had to solder it but someone recently said not. When I get a spare moment I will take it out and check.
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Come to think on it, not heard a lot out of @tomcat59alan recently, is he OK?
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Do not recall that.
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Yes on a 2000MY DHSE, thanks for the information
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Mine hasn't lost sync since I upgraded the RF receiver. I disabled passive immobilisation too.
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There is no real need to disable the immobiliser, with EKA and immobiliser turned off, the EDC is automatically
re-mobilised every time you go to start the car. Loss of sync is possible but unusual and has never happened on mine in 11 years, easy enough to reset with Nanocom if needed.
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The ECM to BECM sync has nothing at all to do with the RF receiver, passive immobiliser, alarm or the EKA code..
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So you've said but what is the effect of the locks cycling or spurious signals to the BECM? It hasn't happened since I upgraded the receiver. Might be coincidence with a sample size of 1.
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Spurious signals from the RF receiver will still wake the BECM up. Locks cycling is usually drivers door lock micro switches which can also cause the message "Engine immobilised press remote" on the dash, turning off the immobiliser will stop that happening.
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I tend to think that some have the impression that, "Engine immobilised" message on dash and ECM to BECM out of sync are the same thing. They are not. With ECM / BECM out of sync there is no message.
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Exactly so.
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The dash message, "Engine immobilised press fob" has nothing to do with ECM / BECM sync.
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It does mean that a valid unlock signal has not been received and so the BECM has not sent the code to re-mobilise the EDC.
