ABS Light not working after Cluster Mod

[the_ferret82]

so a few owners have reported MOT failures due to the ABS light not lighting up when the ignition is turned on.

after looking at this issue for a member on here and seeing i had the same issue when i dragged my car out of storage i have found out what the cause of the issue is. the issue is the wrong value being set for the gear shift light.

the cluster mod guides and clustermod software set the gear shift light value to 90 when enabling the gear shift light for the Holden and Vauxhall logos.

after doing so pure guess work for one owner on here i went back and looked at my logs and tried to replicate the same fix on my own car and succeeded. it appears the magic value to enable the gear shift light for Holden logo on 2004 built cars is 40. it took a few attempts to set this value and get it to take, but once set it seams to work.

please note i have only tested this on 2004 built cars, and ones with the Holden logo set and the shift light enabled.

[the_ferret82]

Mud_ said:

the_ferret82 said:

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please note i have only tested this on 2004 built cars, and ones with the Holden logo set and the shift light enabled.

That's me, so I appreciate you making this known

Any insight on getting the coolant temperature gauge working properly?

i assume you know how to set the vlaues manually using OSEtool?

and define making the temp guage work properly?

[the_ferret82]

Mud_ said:

My confidence is pretty low on this, so would you mind confirming...are you saying the value change from 90 to 40 fixed both issues (shift light and ABS light)?

Are we talking about the 90 in this sequence? Do you know the memory address? VZclustermod has a writemem function I'd hope to use.

['01', '09', '01', '00', '00', '05', '39', '0D', '50', '76', '7E', '80', '80', '80', '60', '90', '00', '31', '33', '33',
'37', '76', '65', '6E', '64', '41', '00']

From here: http://1337vending.com/vzclustermod/wiki/Presets

Do you think just disabling the shift light would bring back the ABS light? Sorry if I sound lazy/useless, my car is currently in a bit of an 'intermediate' state, and an MOT is on the list of things that need doing...

Sorry for the delay i dont come on here often i know the full address. if you use OSE tool and do the following

enter F2,57,1,9 to read table 9 this should return a string like..

F2, 70, 1, 9, 0, 0, 0, 7, D4, 6, 32, 6C, 6C, 6C, 6C, 6C, 90, 0, 0, 6, 0, 0, 7, D4, 4, 32, 6C, 6C, 6C, 9,

this is table 9 in the cluster that holds all the info for the gear change values and the startup logo and shut down logo ETC

if the change the table to (see bold values)

F2, 70, 28, 9, 0, 0, 0, 7, D4, 6, 32, 6C, 6C, 6C, 6C, 6C, 40, 0, 0, 6, 0, 0, 7, D4, 4, 32, 6C, 6C, 6C, 9,

this will set the ABS light back and working and keep the gear shift light.

please not you will need to remove all the spaces before you attempt to write it back.

i hope this helps people

[the_ferret82]

OSE tool is not the same as the cluster mod software OSE tool is much more powerful but it has no presets,the OSE tool allows you to listen live to the car and read out anything that is going on and munipulate it if you know what you are doing. it can be quite simple if you know what your doing.

im going to assume you can set the software up to use your cable ie talk on the right COM port.

if you have done this you click Tools then select Listen to Chatter and send custom ALDL commands to ECM

once the next screen si open, you enter the read comand i supplied and tick the Auto calculate frame checksum tick box

and you should be talking to the car.

[the_ferret82]

sorry i dont come here often but here is my settings.

[the_ferret82]

WillHSV said:

Hi all,

so I happened to come across this thread whilst looking for something else

I have the correct cable (bought from the US at great expense!!) and had used the spreadsheet thing on the clustermod website to activate the HSV logo upon startup and this all worked fine and goes nicely with my Alpine's startup logo

I had it seems also inadvertently turned on the shift up light and indicator which was fine by me on the odd occasion I get near the limit on upshifts

having read this thread I then noticed that my ABS light doesn't light up when I turn the ignition on

firstly, I assume it SHOULD light up on my 2006 registered 2005 build Monaro VXR right ?

secondly I used the OSE tool thing to generate the string that contains the values that need changing by typing in F2,57,1,9

I get

F2, 70, 1, 9, 1, 0, 0, 7, D5, A, 6C, 6C, 6C, 6C, 6C, 6C, 0, 58, 0, 48, 53, 56, 20, 32, 30, 30, 35, 20, 20, B5

returned which is slightly different to the string values the_Ferret mentions

When I try changing the corresponding values in my string so I assume the 70 (at the beginning) and the 0 following the 4 x 6c's and sending this back to the cluster it says the checksum failed and won't write it back.

I have deleted all the spaces out so I am guessing the issue is that my string is slightly different to the one in the_ferret's post

any thoughts people ?

cheers

Hi WIllHSV,

thank you for your email to let me know you have posted. i have not been back here since my last post on this thread.

i dont think your doing anything to wrong. i have to confess i have not had time to test it on a 2005 build car yet so you maybe a bit og a gunnia pig

the code you should need is

F2, 70, 28, 9, 1, 0, 0, 7, D5, A, 6C, 6C, 6C, 6C, 6C, 6C, 01, 58, 0, 48, 53, 56, 20, 32, 30, 30, 35, 20, 20

you dont need the 40 valve for HSV logo's as the gear shift lift is a standad thing so you can use the standard value of 01 this should return your ABS light and keep the gear shift light.

for writing back there is a tick box that says Autocheck sum just under the box where you put the sting back in tick this and it should get rid of your error.

[the_ferret82]

WillHSV said:

right so I entered

F2,70,28,9,1,0,0,7,D5,A,6C,6C,6C,6C,6C,6C,01,58,0,48,53,56,20,32,30,30,35,20,20

it accepted the entry and gave a response but no ABS light still...

MMMM then i dont know. you have a 2005 buit car if im reading correctly and there is differences in the software in the cluster between 04 and 05 build cars. i would need to play with an 05 car to get it going.

where in the UK are you based?

[the_ferret82]

there is difference in the code between 2004 and 2005 made cars.

to crakc it for 2005 cars i would need someone with a 2005 build car and the issue and i would be happy to spend the time working it out.

if there is anyone on the fourm with this and are willing to travel to hertfordshire ill do my best to sort it out.

[the_ferret82]

WillHSV said:

Think it must be VXR only that can have the issue then by sounds of it (when cluster modded)

so i managed to get my hands on a 2005 VXR today tht had not been cluster modded and i did the mods myself and i got the hsv logo on and the shift light along with the ABS light.

here is the code i used

F2,70,28,9,1,0,0,07,D5,7,50,79,7C,7E,7E,7E,40,58,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0

this will set the HSV logo the build year to 2005 and the sutdown text to say Coupe 2005, with shift light enabled. which is how it would have the the factory in OZ.

[the_ferret82]

glad its all sorted.,

it helps somedays just to start a fresh.