She Has Gone

[billy no brakes]

After 14 years of ownership my beloved Cerb has been sold

[julian64]

Thought you two were going to be buried together

[Jhonno]

[FUBAR]

Crikey!

[Alistair H.]

Cripes....I am at 14 years too. Why????

[FUBAR]

Im 10 in a couple of weeks. Might burn my maintenance file so's not to upset myself lol

[Robscim]

FUBAR said:

Im 10 in a couple of weeks. Might burn my maintenance file so's not to upset myself lol

I saw your car earlier - good to see the DIY approach is working!!

Sadly, my DIY approach has also run on to the rocks!!!

Rob

[julian64]

Ten and a half years for me. I only know that because I found pistonheads two months after owning the car for some advice

[billy no brakes]

julian64 said:

Thought you two were going to be buried together

Ha Ha very funny


I have sold the Cerbera to my son and with two conditions

1) I get to drive it when ever I like as long as he is not using it of course

2) I get first refusal if he decides to sell it

Julian It was getting silly, got a stunning Griff and the wife loves it

Got a Tuscan which I like and wife is so so with and the Cerb which I love but the wife hates 2 TVR,s yes but 3 was a bit OTT, went to Brooklands TVR meet and wife liked the T350 and I always liked them but did not think the wife would , one came up right colour etc and wife agreed to let me buy it but it meant 2 had to go so son wanted the Cerb as he has 2 kids and they don,t fit in his Griff so we sold his Griff and he bought the Cerb, Tuscan is up for sale its a cracker and well sorted engine and geabox rebuilt by TVR power plus Nitrons just refurbed a month ago, Getting that Wednesday the T350 Wednesday so everybody happy

P.S. Julian

Might need to bring Cerb over and put on your lift as I think there is a little leak on one of the new silicone hoses we put on and the top ones seem fine

Gary

[julian64]

So..... when you say 'She has gone', you don't really mean it, and she hasn't.

I return with my first point. I'm pretty sure you will be buried with that car.

[billy no brakes]

Still it is a great compromise though

[julian64]

Unfortunately the lift doesn't exist at the moment. A sad tale of buying an E46 estate for my parents and finding that although it drives well, it occasionally stops for no reason. On trying to sort that problem it appears the diagnostic bus on the car isn't functional.

The car has been sitting on the lift for the last month while I slowly strip the whole car to get at all the ECU's connected to the bus one by one to identify which is causing the problem.

With my luck the ecu causing the problem will be the last one I get to and will mean the whole car will have been gutted. God only knows when the car will finally get off the lift.

If only BMW were as simple as a Cerb.

[billy no brakes]

Ok no problem

[Cerbieherts]

julian64 said:

Unfortunately the lift doesn't exist at the moment. A sad tale of buying an E46 estate for my parents and finding that although it drives well, it occasionally stops for no reason. On trying to sort that problem it appears the diagnostic bus on the car isn't functional.

The car has been sitting on the lift for the last month while I slowly strip the whole car to get at all the ECU's connected to the bus one by one to identify which is causing the problem.

With my luck the ecu causing the problem will be the last one I get to and will mean the whole car will have been gutted. God only knows when the car will finally get off the lift.

If only BMW were as simple as a Cerb.

Could be a DME fault. Does the temp guage shoot right up before it cuts out?

Also, some had the old style round capped diag port under the engine bay as well as the obd, if the cap becomes faulty the obd port stops working

Edited by Cerbieherts on Tuesday 11th June 12:02

[julian64]

Cerbieherts said:

julian64 said:

Unfortunately the lift doesn't exist at the moment. A sad tale of buying an E46 estate for my parents and finding that although it drives well, it occasionally stops for no reason. On trying to sort that problem it appears the diagnostic bus on the car isn't functional.

The car has been sitting on the lift for the last month while I slowly strip the whole car to get at all the ECU's connected to the bus one by one to identify which is causing the problem.

With my luck the ecu causing the problem will be the last one I get to and will mean the whole car will have been gutted. God only knows when the car will finally get off the lift.

If only BMW were as simple as a Cerb.

Could be a DME fault. Does the temp guage shoot right up before it cuts out?

Also, some had the old style round capped diag port under the engine bay as well as the obd, if the cap becomes faulty the obd port stops working

Edited by Cerbieherts on Tuesday 11th June 12:02

Nope its a OBD port under the dash car. The BUS showing a short to earth is the D bus or diagnostic bus, but I also think I have a problem with the K bus. When you try to start it you have a 1 in twenty chance of it simple refusing to do anything for what seems to be 12 hours or so.

The cars a diesel spawn of the devil so it has a DDE. Basically the DDE(engine management) EWS(keylock) and AGS(transmission) module are all connected on the diagnostic bus and all work but no communication traffic is working. None in isolation will talk either. No chance of debugging a BMW mutlilayer circuit. Have bought a set on ebay for £90 and going to try coding them into the car in the next few days. If I can get the diagnostic bus running again I can then code them all in.