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Mark Piercy said:

So I had a "market not set" warning on the car this morning while going to rescue my lad and his clutch problem scooter at 1.30am....
I had turned the alarm off the other day and then realized the indicators wouldn't flash on lock and unlock. Now, the immobilizer and eka are turned off and for some reason when putting the alarm back on and I'm not sure why it did this it unset the becm which involved resetting it and the redoing the ems code.... That was a bit scary
I've sorted it this morning at a more reasonable time and it starts and runs
That was scary..
Lesson.... Leave the flipping thing alone while it's happy to do it's job...

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Mark Piercy said:

And right to say so, I had turned them off previously on your advice... I don't think I'm ever going to go near the becm ecu ever again

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Datatek said:

As I always say, turn off EKA and immobiliser functions, leave the alarm on.

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nigelbb said:

This advice is only really useful if you have a diesel. On a V8 turning off EKA will just mean that when you need to enter EKA you won't be able to. Additionally on the V8 turning off the immobiliser only disables the passive immobiliser that kicks in when you are too slow putting the key in the ignition after unlocking the door.

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nigelbb said:

This advice is only really useful if you have a diesel. On a V8 turning off EKA will just mean that when you need to enter EKA you won't be able to. Additionally on the V8 turning off the immobiliser only disables the passive immobiliser that kicks in when you are too slow putting the key in the ignition after unlocking the door.

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