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CheaterLad

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Hi All,

After 3 years of ownership i thought i would get myself on a Land Rover forum!

I have an issue with my local garage not being able to plug in to the ECU on my '95 Discovery V8. They have used 2-3 computers and none of them are able to speak to it.

I have it booked in with a specialist in a few weeks time, as i need the airbag and abs light off so it can go through the mot.

Have any of you any past experience with issues with a) being able to interrogate the ecu, and b) getting the abs and srs light off?

Thanks guys!
 
I wired mine into the oil pressure light and it puts them out ;)
Simple and effective but does not cure the problem but gets you through the MOT :D
 
Lol, thats one way of doing it.

Is there any way you can remove the bulbs in these dashes?

Its not my every day runner so i don't have bottomless pits of cash to spend on diagnostics etc.

The abs light i think is a bit easier as i think there may be some play in one of the wheels bearings. But without diagnostics, we dont know!
 
CheaterLad said:
Lol, thats one way of doing it.

Is there any way you can remove the bulbs in these dashes?

Its not my every day runner so i don't have bottomless pits of cash to spend on diagnostics etc.

The abs light i think is a bit easier as i think there may be some play in one of the wheels bearings. But without diagnostics, we dont know!
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You can take the bulbs out -

but it will still fail the MOT ...

get it sorted ...

much easier ...
 
Yeah guess so, it has to light up on ignition doesn't it.

Oh well, lets see what Brooklyn say in a few weeks.

But if anyone has had issues with non-specialist garages not being able to plug in it would be interesting to hear.
 
CheaterLad said:
Hi All,

After 3 years of ownership i thought i would get myself on a Land Rover forum!

I have an issue with my local garage not being able to plug in to the ECU on my '95 Discovery V8. They have used 2-3 computers and none of them are able to speak to it.

I have it booked in with a specialist in a few weeks time, as i need the airbag and abs light off so it can go through the mot.

Have any of you any past experience with issues with a) being able to interrogate the ecu, and b) getting the abs and srs light off?

Thanks guys!
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I take it you know that the SRS is the 'airbag' side of things and the ABS is the 'brake' side of things, yes ?

Have a 'search' in the Discovery section, you're not the first person to suffer this problem ...
 
My ABS light stayed on (until I removed the bulb as a temporary measure earlier in the year) and found out only last week that one of the rear ABS sensors was pushed too far in and slightly touching the ABS sensor ring.

Mr. Noisy & myself have since stripped it all out as far as the wiring goes and converted both front & rear axles to non ABS.
The next job is to remove the ABS unit entirely and finish off replacing all the copper brake pipes with custom made braided hoses.

Custom build thread inc pics to follow soon. :D
 
for the ABS see attachment, you can diagnose it with plip test and erase it too but if you dont fix the fault the light will come back... if the plip test doesnt work IMO theECU is fubar'd(not uncommon)

if the SRS light goes off briefly after the self check without staring the engine try this trick. Maybe you-re lucky...but again, if a fault is present it will come back:

" Instructions
1 Put the key into the ignition and turn the switch to the "on" position.

2 Watch for the airbag light to turn on. It will stay illuminated for seven seconds and then shut itself off. After it shuts off, immediately turn the switch off and wait three seconds.

3 Repeat Steps 1 and 2 two more times.

4 Start the engine. The SRS light should come on for seven seconds, and then shut off and stay off. The airbag light has been reset. "
 

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CheaterLad said:
Hi All,

After 3 years of ownership i thought i would get myself on a Land Rover forum!

I have an issue with my local garage not being able to plug in to the ECU on my '95 Discovery V8. They have used 2-3 computers and none of them are able to speak to it.

I have it booked in with a specialist in a few weeks time, as i need the airbag and abs light off so it can go through the mot.

Have any of you any past experience with issues with a) being able to interrogate the ecu, and b) getting the abs and srs light off?

Thanks guys!
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Your post is a classic bodge it one-get it fixed and if you can't afford the repairs and maintenance then sell it.

Nowhere takes weeks to book a vehicle in for diagnostics
 
fanatic said:
Your post is a classic bodge it one-get it fixed and if you can't afford the repairs and maintenance then sell it.

Nowhere takes weeks to book a vehicle in for diagnostics
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In fact Brooklyn do take a few weeks to book in as they only do every other Saturday. And as I work mon-fri this is the only time I can do it.

And secondly I don't bodge anything. I have done extensive work to this car including engine rebuild and swap out, and the reason I am asking about lights etc is due to the mot requirements. Then I can look it in more depth and fix when I have the time. Hence why I'm asking about plugging in so the ecu can tell me the fix, so I can fix it?

Thanks all for your other posts, very helpful and I will try the ignition test to see if that can clear it.
 
Doesn't the OP's forum nickname say it all?

Don't even try to cheat, get it fixed properly.

Your safety (and possibly mine too) might depend on it.
 
My surname is Cheater so that explains my user not that I need to explain that.

And I am getting it fixed, I just got to wait for it to be plugged in. If I was going to bodge it I wouldn't be paying the £50+ vat to know what's wrong!

I don't need the saints of this forum taking the moral high ground.

Maybe this is the wrong place for advice, or people need to re-read my original post rather than paying more attention to my username....
 
CheaterLad said:
My surname is Cheater so that explains my user not that I need to explain that.

And I am getting it fixed, I just got to wait for it to be plugged in. If I was going to bodge it I wouldn't be paying the £50+ vat to know what's wrong!

I don't need the saints of this forum taking the moral high ground.

Maybe this is the wrong place for advice, or people need to re-read my original post rather than paying more attention to my username....
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I would suggest that you have had good advice and would recommend you look around the site, as banter and **** taking is the norm on here as it isn't your normal forum.
I would also advise that any dummy spitting will result in merciless taunting and name calling.
You may prefer a nice knitting forum to join.
 
Well usually in forums if you can't offer any advice then don't contribute.

Don't get me wrong some guys on this thread have been very helpful but its sad to say that the majority of the posts are people telling me what I should be doing and not actually offering to answer the original post.

If anyone on here thought I was actually going to bodge it, does anybody think I would make the effort to register to a forum to ask about ecu diagnostics?

Meanwhile other members have openly admitted to bodging it (read above) yet I'm the one getting preached to about road safety?

Have a word with yourselves.
 
CheaterLad said:
Well usually in forums if you can't offer any advice then don't contribute.

It int usual on here.;)

Don't get me wrong some guys on this thread have been very helpful but its sad to say that the majority of the posts are people telling me what I should be doing and not actually offering to answer the original post.

You've had help, now expect a free for all brawl.

If anyone on here thought I was actually going to bodge it, does anybody think I would make the effort to register to a forum to ask about ecu diagnostics?

You would be surprised:eek:

Meanwhile other members have openly admitted to bodging it (read above) yet I'm the one getting preached to about road safety?

Yes, that's right.:D

Have a word with yourselves.
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Answers in red above.


Have a word with YOURself and join in or feck off:p:D
 
GRATCH said:
Answers in red above.


Have a word with YOURself and join in or feck off:p:D
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Sounds like you lot are a bunch of nutters.

But hats off for effort on the above post, it did make me laugh!

I guess that's my initiation process complete.

*Heads off to offer advice to other forum members in the "landy zone way"*
 
Ok, Joe so I have taken another look a your original post and from what I can see you're asking how to get the SRS and ABS lights to go off, presumably while the fault(s) might still exist, so that you might be able to blag your way through the MoT then get your Disco fixed at some later date.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Your local garage doesn't have the diagnostics to work with the Land Rover ECU. That's a problem which many owners have come up against over the years, for that reason some of those owners have invested in either a Nanocom or Hawkeye diagnostic unit of their own. Six visits to a specialist and you've paid for a new unit and you won't have to wait six weeks to find or correct a fault in the future.

The "bulbs" in the dashboard are 1.2 watt filament bulbs, but removing them won't help with the MoT, as they have to light up for the self test at switch on, and quite frankly to go to all the effort of pulling the dash apart just so that you can wire them to the oil pressure circuit or somewhere else would be a waste of your time if you ask me.

A better way to go about this might have been to just say what your problems were and ask nicely if there might be anyone near you who could possibly help with diagnostics, instead of asking if there was any way to work around the MoT. But the "damage" has been done now.
 
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