Ginger coupe is dead.

[Daz]

Tried to remap the thing today, so as a precaution put the charger on the batt,(always do just incase). Downloaded map to ipf, connected ipf to car and way to go.
Mid map battery died... red light on ipf,
So plugged into laptop. which said ipf in recovery mode, please reconnect to car, so did this, and another red light... plugged ipf back into lappy,
Ecu codes disappered... notsure.gif
So tried to get ecu codes, which are all f**ked up by the seems, so ipf wont talk to ecu and the ecu wont talk to the ipf
And to top it all , the fans and P/s pump are flat out at all times, even with the ignition off....

Reading up on aoc , it seems the batt goin flat puts the ecu into sleep mode... so both the ecu and my ipf may need to goto regal so they can get the rescue files from eds in germany to wake the blighter up again...

So phone call to regal 1st thing monday is in order.... IF that fails.... the coupe is goin to end up the same way as my Vec did....

 

[pottsey]

not good daz hope you get it sorted ,would be a shame to break it

 

[Sjdickso]

Daz, that doesnt sound good at all.

I really hope that Regal can do something for you.

You must be gutted.

It may not be the same but once we mapped a S3 with a bluefin and that drained the bat due both fans running flat out as the ECU didnt like the map. Superchips manged to get a new map to the the device and to the ECU and all was ok.

 

[Matt]

s**t Daz, doesn't sound good at all.

 

[BURT150]

Thats S**t daz hope you get it sorted.

 

[Matt]

This is another reason I'm not a big fan of DIY mapping using the flash devices.

 

[Daz]

There fine matt...... just batterys goin flat cause issues...lol....

 

[MikeS]

your suppose to leave the battery on a trickle charger when flashing the ecu or are aware that the battery is in good working order

it is the same as flashing a mobile phone or any other electrical device - losing power while flashing an eeprom is a big no no

as for the ecu i am unable to help as i have never ventured that far tbh

i duno if the ecu uses a boot loader or flash device to boot

 

[Daz]

Charger was connected at the time mike...

 

[MikeS]

unlucky that your battery carped it though man

extremely unlucky

 

[Daz]

Gonna get another new battry 2moz, ring regal and see what they say.... and get a new starter, to see if thats the drain and reason for only charging at 12,7v.... 2 new alts fitted in 6 months...so it aint them

 

[vocky]

what about using tech2 to put a base factory map back onto the ecu first dunno..

 

[dodger]

how annoying Daz, you had the battery on charge and it still went wrong.

Hope you get it sorted soon.

 

[Mark Dj]

This is another reason I'm not a big fan of DIY mapping using the flash devices.

My Bsr one was fine this way on my Vectra. Good idea to check you have a good battery before maps. I will be using Bsr again for my new car. Hope it all works out for you Daz

 

[Daz]

Well spoke to regal today.... but had to send them an email with the ipf and car info , so hopefully shud get a reply back tomoroow...

 

[delgado900]

Well spoke to regal today.... but had to send them an email with the ipf and car info , so hopefully shud get a reply back tomoroow...

Fingers crossed they can sort it out for ya fella !

 

[JohnnyN]

Update Ginger Pubes??

 

[Daz]

^^^ :upyours: :upyours: :upyours: ^^^^


Okys.. update 1

Came home to find email from chris at regal.... so unzipped the attachment(rescue files) and set about uploading them to the ipf..... job done..... so plug into car , and .. red flashing light.... should be purple.
So the rescue failed, just mailed chris back with the info and will await a reply 2morow...

 

[JohnnyN]

Ooh bugger!

 

[Sjdickso]

Oh dear, sure they will be able to get a map to load to it Daz.