I believe the Wire Jumper method as mentioned *may* be to fool the ECU into thinking the inhibit button has been pressed and as such it should ignore height sensers and etc....
I have to say I have never heard of this solution previously, that is not to say it won't work as SpudH is a pretty switched on guy....but I would exercise caution if you decide to do this....
Nope, the EAS is completely disabled as the ECU plug remains unplugged. The jumper wire just tells the BECM that it is in manual/diagnostic mode and not to be bothered returning any more fault messages.
I went around for quite a while like this one time when my EAS was hard faulted out before the P38 community had access to EAS kickers and EAS Unlock etc. Some very bright guys (the guys that developed EAS unlock) went through the whole system to develop an emergency recovery system using jumper wires at the EAS ECU plug. Clearing the fault message on the dash was something they stumbled across during this process.
Steve, on the £50, you're not the first guy to be annoyed by this type of thing but if I hadn't told you about the wire you'd be happy out, remember that.
I had a RRC stuck up on top of a mountain 3 weeks one time when I lost the keys having locked it with the remote fob. Unfortunately though I had spare keys, I only had one fob so the thing was immobilised and I had no way around it. After much research I came across a guy who reset land rover alarms. You bought a 'chip' from him to get round the alarm. You unplugged the alarm ECU and plugged in this 'chip' and if you posted off the alarm ECU and a new fob he'd reset and re-sycnh. Great service! As I didn't have a second fob it didn't matter that much to me so I just bought the 'chip'. When the package arrived I opened it to find what was essentially a plug to match the alarm socket. Being an engineer I couldn't leave well enough alone and so in wonderment at how they could do it so neatly, I took the back off the plug to find..........a jumper wire across two contacts. I'd paid about £40 for it.
I was a bit peeved for a while but then remembered that the bloody RRC had been out of action for the previous 3 weeks over it so quickly came round to appreciating how a guy is entitled to make a few quid out of his knowledge. That was 4.5 years ago. The 'chip' is still in place and I still wish the guy who sold it to me the best of luck and would recommend him right now if I could think of the company name
I've since educated myself a bit on motor electronics (had no choice since replacing the RRC with a P38
) and theres a whole lot more of that sort of thing can be utilised to get round problems.
