P38 OBDII grrrr

dogsbody said:

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?

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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

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tommo138 said:

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!!!!

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tommo138 said:

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!!!!

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kernowdragon said:

Be fair! It's not the cars fault some dick changed the socket.

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magictiny said:

Now I will have to get an OBDII plug off a breaker and splice it in properly - using someone else eyes

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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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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

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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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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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