Vantage ECU swapped plastic for glass
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Hi
I bought a second glass ECU for my 2011 vantage. I swapped the innards from my old plastic one to the new key. It opens and locks the doors etc.. But when it's inserted into the dash I get a key error when I try to start it. Anyone any ideas? I'm at a bit of a loss as it's a single pcb board and if it opens/closes doors it should start the car?
Thanks in advance.
I bought a second glass ECU for my 2011 vantage. I swapped the innards from my old plastic one to the new key. It opens and locks the doors etc.. But when it's inserted into the dash I get a key error when I try to start it. Anyone any ideas? I'm at a bit of a loss as it's a single pcb board and if it opens/closes doors it should start the car?
Thanks in advance.
tourputter said:
Hi
I bought a second glass ECU for my 2011 vantage. I swapped the innards from my old plastic one to the new key. It opens and locks the doors etc.. But when it's inserted into the dash I get a key error when I try to start it. Anyone any ideas? I'm at a bit of a loss as it's a single pcb board and if it opens/closes doors it should start the car?
Thanks in advance.
It's not as simple as thatI bought a second glass ECU for my 2011 vantage. I swapped the innards from my old plastic one to the new key. It opens and locks the doors etc.. But when it's inserted into the dash I get a key error when I try to start it. Anyone any ideas? I'm at a bit of a loss as it's a single pcb board and if it opens/closes doors it should start the car?
Thanks in advance.
The ignition is coded to the key to prevent theft
Inside the old plastic key would have been a small bit of metal that looks like it could be a magnet. This is in fact the immobiliser transponder. You can free it by breaking the adhesive contact by twisting the plastic casing back and forth. You need to replace this for the one in the innards of the glass ECU as well as the PCB. Once you have swapped this over it will work just fine.
woodsypedia said:
Nick that looks sweet. Is it just a carbon fibre wrap? Like the 3M stuff you can get online?
Cheers
Chris.
No Chris its real CF. mb1 who is on here made a batch for us about two years ago although he's now moved to the dark side having bought a McClaren Cheers
Chris.
Might be worth a PM to see if he still has anyhttp://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?mem...
than it already is I've managed to get a glass key at a reasonable price so will upgrade the bits from my plastic key to that so won't be going the carbon route but I did get a response from Mike in case anyone is still interested...
"Yes, I do have a couple left.
However, as I have sold my Aston, I do not have any means of "tuning" them.
They are all ready to be fitted with the internals of the plastic keys but there is always a little bit of fiddling to do to make sure all the buttons work and the case fits correctly. This can be a little time consuming so I only did it for the number of cases sold...
If you are not afraid of getting hands on, and you are interested let me know."
Mike can be contacted via his profile
"Yes, I do have a couple left.
However, as I have sold my Aston, I do not have any means of "tuning" them.
They are all ready to be fitted with the internals of the plastic keys but there is always a little bit of fiddling to do to make sure all the buttons work and the case fits correctly. This can be a little time consuming so I only did it for the number of cases sold...
If you are not afraid of getting hands on, and you are interested let me know."
Mike can be contacted via his profile
TuonoPants said:
I've managed to get a glass key at a reasonable price so will upgrade the bits from my plastic key to that so won't be going the carbon route but I did get a response from Mike in case anyone is still interested...
"Yes, I do have a couple left.
However, as I have sold my Aston, I do not have any means of "tuning" them.
They are all ready to be fitted with the internals of the plastic keys but there is always a little bit of fiddling to do to make sure all the buttons work and the case fits correctly. This can be a little time consuming so I only did it for the number of cases sold...
If you are not afraid of getting hands on, and you are interested let me know."
Mike can be contacted via his profile
Good news on both fronts. Just to add the CF unit is significantly lighter than the glass one. Evidently swapping the bits form the plastic one to the CF one is easy, well that's what "Cockernee" told me "Yes, I do have a couple left.
However, as I have sold my Aston, I do not have any means of "tuning" them.
They are all ready to be fitted with the internals of the plastic keys but there is always a little bit of fiddling to do to make sure all the buttons work and the case fits correctly. This can be a little time consuming so I only did it for the number of cases sold...
If you are not afraid of getting hands on, and you are interested let me know."
Mike can be contacted via his profile
AMDBSNick said:
Good news on both fronts. Just to add the CF unit is significantly lighter than the glass one. Evidently swapping the bits form the plastic one to the CF one is easy, well that's what "Cockernee" told me
And you listened to him 
Next he will be telling you he needs to test drive the DB9 to make sure it is OK and hence make both your Astons worthless
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