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Switching Edit Mode did the trick even answered another of my questions too, just need to go and find some RRS's VINs now and see what they look like
17th Feb 2013 11:39 pm
CUCO
Member Since: 27 May 2011
Location: Spain & Oleee!!!
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Any news here?
1st May 2013 1:54 pm
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I have purchased a set of all the required parts as i am concerned that the ECU i was using may have been faulty and giving us this constant FA switch error. I have given these to one of my chaps who now needs to make another wiring loom for it that can be connected to our bench jig. Unfortunately we closed last week for our Easter break and won't now re open until May 8th.
3rd May 2013 2:13 pm
hids4u
Member Since: 12 Apr 2009
Location: Leeds
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Hi Colin
Any update on this. I have the parts for my D4 collecting dust and hoping you can finally get it working
Best Regards Ian
17th Jun 2013 11:02 pm
hids4u
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Location: Leeds
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Colin. Are you out there?
4th Jul 2013 9:23 pm
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Hiya Ian
Of course i am here
I am constantly juggling the many things i have going on right now and trying to do my best by all of them, prioritising accordingly.
Rightly or wrongly a lot of my time is currently being taken up by Poppie.
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The last surviving pup in a litter of three, once an almost lifeless scrap of fur that filled but half my palm and absolutely not expected to survive beyond an hour or two according to the Vet, who clearly had no idea of my ability, willingness and capability to do the seemingly impossible.
Normal D3 Mod service will be resumed as soon as possible though
ATB
Colin
5th Jul 2013 8:45 pm
hids4u
Member Since: 12 Apr 2009
Location: Leeds
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Hi Colin
Thanks for reply. Very cute pic
I guess I will leave my bits gathering dust for a few more months
The sensor will probably make a good paperweight
Best Regards Ian
5th Jul 2013 8:52 pm
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Don't loose the bits Ian
Sorry for my digretion.
While my own hands are quite full, sometimes quite literally, this does not stop me delegating and the new parts have indeed now been loomed together by Christian and passed to Alex for testing to verify that the new Hardware set does not have this FA fault problem.
Unfortunaltely Alex has been a bit busy sorting out some problems in the latest MSV-2 update but this is pretty much done now and i will ask him to make sure he checks the new hardware out this week and will write back here with the results.
If the new set does not have this FA switch constant fault problem then this proves that the reason we cannot calibrate the old hardware set must be down to a faulty ECU. We can then get it replaced, calibrate it and get it all working PDQ.
7th Jul 2013 7:14 pm
Mark Hope
Member Since: 13 Mar 2011
Location: Scotland
Posts: 155
Hi Colin
Any update on this very interestingI hate it when people see me at the supermarket and they're like 'Hey, what are you doing here?' I tell them 'You know.. hunting elephants.' -
10th Nov 2013 5:43 pm
tongyudianqi
Member Since: 21 Oct 2013
Location: London
Posts: 1
Is the radar data transfer to control unit then show it on the ecu? If I donot have ecu, would you get the radar data? thx
13th Dec 2013 4:00 am
kkees
Member Since: 21 Dec 2013
Location: ellemeet
Posts: 47
Hi Colin,
Is there any news about the ACC mod?
Thnks for the work!
5th Jan 2014 10:34 pm
hids4u
Member Since: 12 Apr 2009
Location: Leeds
Posts: 1155
Hi Colin
Hope all is well and your puppy is now grown up
The dust on my ecu and
Radar is building up.
Any
Progress with this and for d4
Best Regards Ian
21st Jan 2014 9:59 pm
kenny
Member Since: 17 Jan 2010
Location: South West Aus
Posts: 79
Hi Colin,
It's been a year now, everything fitted up and waiting for that simple patch.
Is it going to happen? Or have you bigger fish to fry?
27th Jan 2014 1:07 pm
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Hiya Chaps
I got into this project because it really should have been very simple and straight forward, Ie quick.
For the D3 it should require only the fitting of a switch panel with the Forward Alert switch, the ACC ECU, the switches on the steering wheel and of course the Radar sensor and on a D4 only the fitting of the ECU, wheel switches and radar sensor.
And then of course enabling in the CCF.
Utter childs play compared to what else have sucessfully retro fitted to my D3
The wiring between these items is not overly complex and the connections to the exiting vehicle even less so with just four connections being required that are actually avaliable on the OBDII socket.
As i pictured earlier on this thread, i made up a loom connecting these together which i retro fitted to the D3, and enabled the system in the CCF with positive looking results in so far as all the related menuing came up on the instrument pack etc.
However we kept getting a Forward alert switch fault code that despite our later fitting the genuine switch etc was still present. We also got the expected needs calibration fault code
We tried doing the calibration but failed
We supplied this setup, as is to someone else to try but were met with the same results.
I came to the conclusion that there was no fault with the Forward alert switch itself but one in the ECU itself that was not new and came to me from a source that supported this theory.
I purchased a brand new ECU and another switch bar, complete with the Forward alert switch / indicator LED from TLO and using another radar sensor wired these up the same as i had done before.
However we could not even communicate with the ECU diagnostically in this second set up and despite treble checking all connections, we still have no idea why this is.
We have got the first set back in with a view to swapping things out in the hope of getting a working set going without the Forward alert switch fault code problem, but by this time we have had to change our entire focus to the Nanocom.
So currently we do have bigger fish to fry, but that is only a temporary matter.
Some may know that i do now have a 2010 RRS which is technically identical to the D4 and i have already fitted the ACC steering wheel switches to this, purchased the Radar sensor mounting bracket and right now TLO is helping me get an ACC ECU as it is fundamentally different to the D3 one.
So while we have had some technical setbacks and i appreciate that this has dragged on for some time now and we do have other higher priorities, this is still something that i would expect to happen.
29th Jan 2014 6:24 pm
luciogodoy
Member Since: 14 Apr 2008
Location: Windsor - UK
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I've read the 7 pages of posts hoping that BBS Spy would have found/resolved the mystery by the end of the last post!
It felt like a Tarantino movie!
What a shame, but thanks for trying
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even answered another of my questions too, just need to go and find some RRS's VINs now and see what they look like 
