Should I let me mates diagnostic machine near my car??
22 February 2007, 07:38 PM
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Should I let me mates diagnostic machine near my car??
My mate who owns his own garage is lending me one of his lifts on saturday so that I can fit my Cel fix.
(its a spacer that moves the o2 sensor out of the direct flow of the exhaust)
which is needed after my turbo back decat.
However my Cel light is currently on due to having no cats and my mates says he can reset the cel using his diagnostic machine which uses the obdII port
The machine is general to lots of cars but,
he has checked and it says it is compatable with my scooby..
I have rung Zak at Mocom and he says that there is no way he could wipe my remap.
So could he do any harm or shold I let him have a go??
My car is MY05 WRX (Mocom remap)
(its a spacer that moves the o2 sensor out of the direct flow of the exhaust)
which is needed after my turbo back decat.
However my Cel light is currently on due to having no cats and my mates says he can reset the cel using his diagnostic machine which uses the obdII port
The machine is general to lots of cars but,
he has checked and it says it is compatable with my scooby..
I have rung Zak at Mocom and he says that there is no way he could wipe my remap.
So could he do any harm or shold I let him have a go??
My car is MY05 WRX (Mocom remap)
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22 February 2007, 08:19 PM
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any obd11 compliant tool will read and reset fault codes on obd compliant cars. the newage is so not a problem.
The ecutek software is mainly for re-mapping and wont be overwritten by a simple code reader
The ecutek software is mainly for re-mapping and wont be overwritten by a simple code reader
22 February 2007, 09:01 PM
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I'm not stalking you but I have posted about this on a different thread
Any EcuTeK mapper mapping a de-cat car should have removed the de-cat CEL (P0420) once and for all. Did Zak say he has done this when you phoned?
Mechanical and electrical CEL fixes are not 100%. I'm not sure what moving the rear Lambda sensor will do, all it does is measure gas composition and not flow. If the lambda sensor starts to give out spurious signals then the ECU will trigger a Lambda sensor / circuit malfunction CEL instead.
I'd try and persue an EcuTeK solution to the de-cat CEL... is there anybody nearer to you that would be able to do it (as you say Mocom is 420 miles round trip). You would not have to pay the licence fee and it would take all of ten minutes (which is how long it took Bob Rawle to sort mine out)..
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Shaun
I'm not stalking you but I have posted about this on a different thread
Any EcuTeK mapper mapping a de-cat car should have removed the de-cat CEL (P0420) once and for all. Did Zak say he has done this when you phoned?
Mechanical and electrical CEL fixes are not 100%. I'm not sure what moving the rear Lambda sensor will do, all it does is measure gas composition and not flow. If the lambda sensor starts to give out spurious signals then the ECU will trigger a Lambda sensor / circuit malfunction CEL instead.
I'd try and persue an EcuTeK solution to the de-cat CEL... is there anybody nearer to you that would be able to do it (as you say Mocom is 420 miles round trip). You would not have to pay the licence fee and it would take all of ten minutes (which is how long it took Bob Rawle to sort mine out)..
Cheers
Shaun
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