Thanks kermit, do you mean from battery neg to the engine, or from the ground point connections to the engine, so that they're still connected to ground whilst I'm doing the cleaning/sanding?
Thanks
Datatek
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Turn off EKA and the immobiliser with Nanocom then you will have no more trouble when disconnecting the battery.
You can clean the earths without disconnecting the battery but may get some odd things happening.
Do not use sand paper, use 600 grade wet or dry paper dry as it will not leave grit behind.
Between battery negative and the engine block, you might have a convenient engine lift point
Put the ignition on and off and disconnect the battery within 17 seconds? Is that right? Never had an issue with either of our two doing it that way but as said if you have the facility to turn it off I would 
Yea that's it.. loosen the terminal first so it pops straight offPut the ignition on and off and disconnect the battery within 17 seconds? Is that right? Never had an issue with either of our two doing it that way but as said if you have the facility to turn it off I would
Put the ignition on and off and disconnect the battery within 17 seconds? Is that right? Never had an issue with either of our two doing it that way but as said if you have the facility to turn it off I would
I've only done it once, but I followed the procedure above as per the manual/Rave... According to the manual; removing the negative terminal within 17 seconds is purely to stop the alarm from sounding... My alarm didn't go off so I know that I'd disconnected within the 17 secs, but upon reconnection neither of my fobs would lock/unlock remotely and I had a real fiddle trying to get them both working again... Had to perform the EKA multiple times, and then only one key worked... and then randomly after a couple of minutes they both started working.
After that I said I'd like to do this as little as possible haha.
But is the ABS fault fixed yet?
I wouldn't say "fixed"...
I've sorted my leaking pollen filters out (took 3 attempts at sealing them but got there in the end)... Whilst I was sorting them I checked the OBD port out which I think you'd mentioned before, and water was actually dripping out of it after it had rained...
I started it up and tapped the OBD port and I could reliably trigger the ABS fault to pop up and beep on the dash...
Cleaned all the pins and dried it out thoroughly, but it still pops up with "abs fault" at ignition on. Maybe it needs clearing? Not sure how that works.
Datatek
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There could well be verdigris between the pins on the OBD connector causing the problem.
Good point..
I cleaned each pin with a pick and wd-40 specialist contact cleaner and the intermittent issue has gone, it will only throw the abs fault message up on the dash once and then never again..
Is there an easy way to remove the pins from the OBD port so that I can ensure they are thoroughly cleaned?
If not I guess I could buy a new OBD socket and cut and re-pin..
brianp38dse
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New socket would probably be the way to go as if the pins are corroded they can snap easy.
Well that sounds like a real result and it is also what I said in post #79 lol.
I should have tried checking it sooner!
Thanks again for your help all - I'll get there eventually with this abs thing!
Datatek
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Plus 1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
