Glad it's working for you - and yes, it is amazing how much RF there is kicking about. The best test we've had of one so far was one of the pre-production units we sent to an owner who was getting a flat battery in 2 days, and even worse, random messages on the dash of ALARM TRIGGERED (it hadn't...

Yes, the RF Filter is finished and available on my website - at the moment we are having to make them a couple at a time - as I'm away still and my mate works full time aswell, but they are available and work.. I think there are about 15-16 of them out there now. My work schedule lately had...

If you have an auto, then sit in it with the doors closed when it gets dark (don't need to be locked) and look at the gear indication LED next to the shifter. It will be glowing dimly when the BECM is awake, and should extingush after a couple of minutes. If it doesn't go out, then something...

Sorry, I have just seen that I was tagged in this a couple of times - Grrrr was right, and I was out of the country last week - and just got back yesterday. I do have the faultmate system with the BECM direct access module/code and I've replied to your PM, Mick - but it looks like you've...

Either the 3rd gen receiver isn't working properly, or there's a load of interference as I mentioned earlier, where it's corrupting the transmission and thus the 3rd gen isn't decoding it properly, and as such not recognising the key transmission, and forwarding it on. As Datatek says, check...

Erm - You've got the wrong connector there... The RF receiver feeds into the BECM on C1285, which is the 20 way Blue connector (next one to the left in your picture). The wire you're after is the Orange/Red wire, which goes into pin 6. I could be wrong, but from what you have described - your...

Sorry, just seen that I've been tagged in this... been away working. In short - yes, the 3rd gen RF receivers can fail - I've got about 3 or 4 of them here which are faulty, and I'm looking into if it's something simple to repair, or whether they are totally dead. It won't be a BECM fault -...

As Grrrr mentions - I have a fob tester to be able to read/check the fob code being transmitted from the key fob. Without having the BECM aswell though, I wouldn't be able to tell you if it's the same code as is stored in there though. But unfortunately it isn't easily possible to do at home...

Thanks Grrrrrr Yes, I have them available - I am away for work at the moment - back on Friday evening, so soonest I'd be able to send one out is Friday afternoon/Saturday morning unfortunately.

In my view - it all comes down to how it's been looked after... Yes, new engine which has 80K on it - so that's been done, and if it's been looked after will keep going for ages. I know a guy who's got 360K + on his P38 and it's still going strong, though I think he did the engine a couple of...

2001 4.6 Vogue, Petrol/LPG After fitting the new engine at start of 2017 (core plugs were leaking - no overheating or any of the engine 'write off' scenarios people attribute with V8's - especially on LPG!!) I did the first 1000 miles on petrol to run it all in. Saw 22mpg on the dash after a...

Glad it's all sorted... I looked back on this and saw you'd tagged me and that I hadn't replied! But then remembered we had PM'd about it!! Happy to hear that it's all fixed now though :)

The ride height switch uses some form of serial communication to the EAS ECU from memory, so don't think you would be able to use that standalone to raise/lower the vehicle. The control of the driver pack is just s 12V high signal to activate the solenoid - the driver pack then does the higher...

I had this and it was fraying of the stranded metal wire inside the plastic outer sheath (at the latch end inside the door). I tried to fix it, but in the end just replaced the pull cable. Worth popping the door card off to have a look and see what the situation is like inside the door/at the...

Check to make sure you get a connection to ground (with a multimeter on resistance or continuity test) on pin 8 (white wire) of C1276 (18 way white connector on the back of the BECM) when the ignition is in position II Also check to see if you get a connection to ground (same way as above) on...

He asked about interior lights. Normal LEDs will work fine on the interior lights, as there's no error warnings on them. Exterior lights - yes either load resistors, or modifying the BECM slightly so you don't get error warnings.

I have the Faultmate MSV2 with the SM035 module for reading the BECM CPU. It was in total lockout - and wasn't surprised that Simon couldn't do the EKA manually when he said that it was different to the one I'd retrieved from the BECM. It's a V38 unit, so might have been able to disarm it with...

Indeed - I've got various arduinos from different projects - been recently playing with one and a pressure transducer to be able to give a digital readout of air pressure. Thoughts have been had on using it on the RR, but at the moment, I'm looking at making it into a valve block test rig, so...

OK, I'll try and provide something more than discouragement.... Arduinos are great for all kinds of things - the only thing to look out for between P38 and Arduino is that the P38 logic levels for most things go from between VBatt (12V ish) and ground. Arduinos usually use 5V logic (the one's...

Yes, Nanocom or a Syncmate will sort that out!