Holden Calais VE 2006 Electric Mirrors – Passengers side Mirror Not working
As Vehicle come into Our workshop its always an opportunity to be able to check out a system with the Genuine Scan tool Such As the Tech2.
Under Body Systems there is is a few lines that allow you to check the live data of the centre console switch, which is great to check the function of the switch
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Vehicle
Ford Falcon BF XR8 5.4L 4 valves per cylinder 2008
Symptom:
The vehicle drove into the workshop running the vehicle was running ok but not smooth, better when cold, than when warm, hesitation when on take off.
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known as Astra G- these vehicles come from 99 to 2005
Z18xe- Simtec71
Variants
- there are 2 main variants z18xe with simtec 71 and a newer version called simtec 71.1
- after 2003 the fan controller is different, use your Vin and program with GDS to update is the ecu version is wrong, there is no CAN setting for this and you will not find it in the Tech2 or tech2win,
Programming
Vehicle
Nissan Navara, D40 yd25ddt, DPF Light on. (read the whole story not the fault you think it would be!)
Symptom:
A client of ours had mentioned that the vehicle had poor fuel economy and came in for a service we had check a few items such as fuel pressure and the infamous engine breather this vehicle did not have a catch can. 2 weeks later the vehicles DPF light had come on, this is where that fun started to work out what fault codes where displayed and why this could have happened only 2 weeks after checking faults codes and couldn’t find any reason to use more diesel than normal.
This week started off as a cracker, had a WK Caprice come in with a Traction control light that was not working, when the button next to the shifter was depressed.
The operation of the VY commodore, when pressing the TRAC button the TRAC OFF should change in the instrument cluster similar to that when pressing the PWR button.
This vehicle did have traction control as the button was present and also the 6 pipes on the ABS pump block where present, but the TRAC button and accelerator retarder did not work, after setting up the Tech2 on to the vehicle, it was found that the Tech2 could not communicate as the coding was wrong, we then set up the scan tool for a commodore V6 and the Tech2 connected we found fault 62 RPM sensor error, checked the RPM and at idle it was 275RPM instead of 650RPM,
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