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firstly put on the trousers second buy a range rover third get it in the neck for a couple weeks then demand pie!

fixed the bugger starts on the button now no more immobiliser to worry about thanks to every one who contributed to this thread over the moon to have the disco back on and off the road

ok so today went to the scrappy to try and source a second hand 17 vt box didnt find one but got chatting to one of the fellas and turns out his brother is a vehicle alarms specialist or some thing like that so got his number buzzed him and turns out theres a easy trick to bypass the ecu only...

itching to get the disco back up and running

i have tryed this but it didnt work maybe ill try it again with a better earth and proper wire the speaker wire wasnt man enuf maybe

sorry me being thick for some reason the lock on my drivers door doesnt seem to be connected to anything its been like tha yeh sorry i realised that after id posted ill get there one day

ill have a look on ebay the only thing doesnt the reprogram thing require the drivers door lock to work as mines busted

yeh sorry bout that like i say new to this forum thing ive thought about a replacement ecu do you know if i would need the fobs that were programed to it aswell rather than reprogramming my existing ones im really trying to do this on a none existent budget trust me my missus will have my nuts...

# 17 ? sorry you lost me there

yeh fobs work they did stop for a while during the first instance of this problem then i tryed unplugging for first time and leaving for a while then it fired up and ran for a few hrs now will start once with the uplug trick and the fobs work but immobiliser stays on im running very low on ideas

sorry new to all this forum stuff not quite up on etiquette yet getting abit desperate

i wish it was that easy its not gota a spider fitted as far as i know they dont do a bypass plug for the standard 17vt unit

Hi my disco started playing up a few weeks back i suspected it to be the alarm/immobiliser ecu(17vt model) after several posts and a lot of messing about (check/charging battery checking for dry contacts checking earths etc etc the only thing that works is unplugging the box over night and on...

no worrys want to find out if it can be bypassed like the spider if so id bin the 17vt in a second not to worryed about having it as my discos only an old beater it seems to be quite a closely guarded thing tho for obvious reasons

it doesnt have a spider fitted just the standard lucas 17vt

ok so i think ive narrowed it down to the alarm ecu more so the immobiliser element of it as ive for a second time left it unplugged for a day or two and upon plugging back in she fires up first time so i had a thought that if i tried locking and unlocking on the fob it may not fire up which it...

ok so i think ive narrowed it down to the alarm ecu more so the immobiliser element of it as ive for a second time left it unplugged for a day or two and upon plugging back in she fires up first time so i had a thought that if i tried locking and unlocking on the fob it may not fire up which it...

QUOTE="shaun69, post: 3576717, member: 50102"]Hi mate Have you looked at the ignition wires (behind the steering binnacle) and see if all is looking ok. It just sounds like there mite be a loose/dry contact or the multi plug might be loose or burnt. Hope this helps.... i shall take a look at...

spot on ill have a look at that then lucky ive not bolted the bugger back in yet due to how hard it was getting it out ill let you know how i get on nice one