Won't start so now on the back of a truck..
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Bit of a problem here, car started fine this morning, went into town, parked up for about an hour.
Came back, turned the key, engine turned-fired and died. My main thoughts were the immobilser. I have two, one factory and one aftermarket.
Called the AA who dutifully turned up. Tested the battery;said it was low on charge and did a boost on it. No good - same result.
Plugged in an OBD diagnostics box in and here's the boggling bit, it wouldn't / couldn't read anything. Now, fortunately, the AA chap know's about Monaro's as he's driven and worked on VXR 5.7's and 6.0's and he said that even though it's not a Euro car, his diagnostics box should still work on it.
His question to me was had the car been 're-programmed' in anyway and if so, had the programmer 'locked it'? Seemed a bit odd, but when the cars have WORTEC upgrades, are fault codes made inaccessable at all?
Car ended up on the back of a flat bed recovery truck this afternoon and taken to Slaters for them to have a poke about with in the morning but I hope not to get a phone call with the same problem the AA had.
One thing to add to this, can't praise the recovery truck guy (not AA) enough. He took a lot of care getting the car onto his truck making sure the winch cable didn't catch onthe bottom of the front bumper due to the lack of a suitable towing eye. Oh yes, the AA told him he was collecting a MOVANO van.....
Came back, turned the key, engine turned-fired and died. My main thoughts were the immobilser. I have two, one factory and one aftermarket.
Called the AA who dutifully turned up. Tested the battery;said it was low on charge and did a boost on it. No good - same result.
Plugged in an OBD diagnostics box in and here's the boggling bit, it wouldn't / couldn't read anything. Now, fortunately, the AA chap know's about Monaro's as he's driven and worked on VXR 5.7's and 6.0's and he said that even though it's not a Euro car, his diagnostics box should still work on it.
His question to me was had the car been 're-programmed' in anyway and if so, had the programmer 'locked it'? Seemed a bit odd, but when the cars have WORTEC upgrades, are fault codes made inaccessable at all?
Car ended up on the back of a flat bed recovery truck this afternoon and taken to Slaters for them to have a poke about with in the morning but I hope not to get a phone call with the same problem the AA had.
One thing to add to this, can't praise the recovery truck guy (not AA) enough. He took a lot of care getting the car onto his truck making sure the winch cable didn't catch onthe bottom of the front bumper due to the lack of a suitable towing eye. Oh yes, the AA told him he was collecting a MOVANO van.....
DevilYellowCV8 said:
Bit of a problem here, car started fine this morning, went into town, parked up for about an hour.
Came back, turned the key, engine turned-fired and died. My main thoughts were the immobilser. I have two, one factory and one aftermarket.
Called the AA who dutifully turned up. Tested the battery;said it was low on charge and did a boost on it. No good - same result.
Plugged in an OBD diagnostics box in and here's the boggling bit, it wouldn't / couldn't read anything. Now, fortunately, the AA chap know's about Monaro's as he's driven and worked on VXR 5.7's and 6.0's and he said that even though it's not a Euro car, his diagnostics box should still work on it.
His question to me was had the car been 're-programmed' in anyway and if so, had the programmer 'locked it'? Seemed a bit odd, but when the cars have WORTEC upgrades, are fault codes made inaccessable at all?
Car ended up on the back of a flat bed recovery truck this afternoon and taken to Slaters for them to have a poke about with in the morning but I hope not to get a phone call with the same problem the AA had.
One thing to add to this, can't praise the recovery truck guy (not AA) enough. He took a lot of care getting the car onto his truck making sure the winch cable didn't catch onthe bottom of the front bumper due to the lack of a suitable towing eye. Oh yes, the AA told him he was collecting a MOVANO van.....
Came back, turned the key, engine turned-fired and died. My main thoughts were the immobilser. I have two, one factory and one aftermarket.
Called the AA who dutifully turned up. Tested the battery;said it was low on charge and did a boost on it. No good - same result.
Plugged in an OBD diagnostics box in and here's the boggling bit, it wouldn't / couldn't read anything. Now, fortunately, the AA chap know's about Monaro's as he's driven and worked on VXR 5.7's and 6.0's and he said that even though it's not a Euro car, his diagnostics box should still work on it.
His question to me was had the car been 're-programmed' in anyway and if so, had the programmer 'locked it'? Seemed a bit odd, but when the cars have WORTEC upgrades, are fault codes made inaccessable at all?
Car ended up on the back of a flat bed recovery truck this afternoon and taken to Slaters for them to have a poke about with in the morning but I hope not to get a phone call with the same problem the AA had.
One thing to add to this, can't praise the recovery truck guy (not AA) enough. He took a lot of care getting the car onto his truck making sure the winch cable didn't catch onthe bottom of the front bumper due to the lack of a suitable towing eye. Oh yes, the AA told him he was collecting a MOVANO van.....
The remap wiill not affect the abilty to interface with the car. The car however is not totally OBD2 compliant as i understand it. Some scanners on the market will not read monaros. I guess his was one of them? Or you may have an ECU problem though i doubt it. Slaters should have no problem connecting to it.
According to Slaters today. it looks as though it's something to do with the immobilser (aftermarket). They've got it started after quite a bit of fault code clearing etc. Needed BCM security code to finish it.
Not sure if it's the alarm key fob or the actual unit. So they've reset everything and will leave it overnight and start it in the morning using both the alarm key fob and override key. Fingers crossed it's just the fob and not a complete immoblilser unit.
Not sure if it's the alarm key fob or the actual unit. So they've reset everything and will leave it overnight and start it in the morning using both the alarm key fob and override key. Fingers crossed it's just the fob and not a complete immoblilser unit.
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