You need the right equipment to solder a chip in and if it's not a piggy back job you need the equipment to de-solder the original chip. Very easy to destroy chips with static and eddy currents from the wrong sort of soldering iron.

I thought you had to solder it but someone recently said not. When I get a spare moment I will take it out and check.
 
On diesel? Well, if you get a replacement chip for the engine ECU, copy the data over but don't set the chip to secure (is that the right word? There's a term for it) then you can leave it with a default that always allows the engine to start.
Yes on a 2000MY DHSE, thanks for the information
 
Yes on a 2000MY DHSE, thanks for the information
There is no real need to disable the immobiliser, with EKA and immobiliser turned off, the EDC is automatically
re-mobilised every time you go to start the car. Loss of sync is possible but unusual and has never happened on mine in 11 years, easy enough to reset with Nanocom if needed.
 
The ECM to BECM sync has nothing at all to do with the RF receiver, passive immobiliser, alarm or the EKA code..

So you've said but what is the effect of the locks cycling or spurious signals to the BECM? It hasn't happened since I upgraded the receiver. Might be coincidence with a sample size of 1.
 
So you've said but what is the effect of the locks cycling or spurious signals to the BECM? It hasn't happened since I upgraded the receiver. Might be coincidence with a sample size of 1.
Spurious signals from the RF receiver will still wake the BECM up. Locks cycling is usually drivers door lock micro switches which can also cause the message "Engine immobilised press remote" on the dash, turning off the immobiliser will stop that happening.
 
Spurious signals from the RF receiver will still wake the BECM up. Locks cycling is usually drivers door lock micro switches which can also cause the message "Engine immobilised press remote" on the dash, turning off the immobiliser will stop that happening.

I tend to think that some have the impression that, "Engine immobilised" message on dash and ECM to BECM out of sync are the same thing. They are not. With ECM / BECM out of sync there is no message.
 
So you've said but what is the effect of the locks cycling or spurious signals to the BECM? It hasn't happened since I upgraded the receiver. Might be coincidence with a sample size of 1.

The dash message, "Engine immobilised press fob" has nothing to do with ECM / BECM sync.
 

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