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Post by trickydicky on May 21, 2020 16:45:24 GMT 1
Anyone had any luck with the following problem
Resetting/reprogramming the BCM and immobiliser on the Vauxhall Corsa D after a dead battery??
Which affordable scan tools can deal with the issue??
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Post by jmac200t on May 21, 2020 19:26:36 GMT 1
OPCOM with firmware v 1.39. it works on keys and bcm and you can do DPF re-gens.
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Post by trickydicky on May 21, 2020 21:36:47 GMT 1
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Post by gordonbennett on May 21, 2020 22:08:22 GMT 1
Chinese copy, stolen copyright as per normal chinese way. Original tool about £750 but no money for more development due to people buying chinese copies. Hope people start to boycott their dubious goods. It will work but can be a pig to do sometimes, I guess its a petrol not diesel. Never had to do a diesel. Tech 2 is much easier as it instructs you as you have to reset modules and reinstall so you need immo code and also switch ignition off and wait 30 secs between modules. HTH.
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Post by trickydicky on May 22, 2020 6:52:18 GMT 1
I thought it looked too cheap and nasty
My problem is thats the only function I struggle with on Vauxhalls, my current scan tool does most stuff I need to do
I did use a Tech 2 for a few years at the dealership in the early 2000s, does op-com just emulate it??
Its just not worth dropping ££££ for the amount of times I would need it
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Post by remmington on May 22, 2020 7:40:29 GMT 1
I thought it looked too cheap and nasty My problem is thats the only function I struggle with on Vauxhalls, my current scan tool does most stuff I need to do I did use a Tech 2 for a few years at the dealership in the early 2000s, does op-com just emulate it?? Its just not worth dropping ££££ for the amount of times I would need it Pay the dealer an hours labour to do it. When are you gonna need to do it again? Do you need to gear yourself up to do it? I often pay a dealer an odd hours labour to do things I can't - it gets the car fixed!
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Post by trickydicky on May 22, 2020 8:48:32 GMT 1
I thought it looked too cheap and nasty My problem is thats the only function I struggle with on Vauxhalls, my current scan tool does most stuff I need to do I did use a Tech 2 for a few years at the dealership in the early 2000s, does op-com just emulate it?? Its just not worth dropping ££££ for the amount of times I would need it Pay the dealer an hours labour to do it. When are you gonna need to do it again? Do you need to gear yourself up to do it? I often pay a dealer an odd hours labour to do things I can't - it gets the car fixed! See it fairly regular now as dead batteries seem to corrupt the BCM when driver attempts to crank Only affects the Corsa D!!! www.ilexa.co.uk/shop/VAUX-COM/VAUX-COM-ProGenuine unit at £768 inc VAT I suppose if you were selling this job out at say £225 inc VAT including a new battery etc. It would soon pay for itself and you could diag older Vauxhall/SAAB it might be worth a crack
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Post by valhalla on May 22, 2020 10:35:20 GMT 1
Way back, I had one of the cheap Chinese knock-off's for sorting-out a Vivaro, which just would not do the job, so I bought the VAUX-COM through Ilexa, and that was a different league altogether.
I'm not sure, in retrospect, that it was such a good buy, as for all the reasons mentioned above, including your own point about just using a general scantool on Vauxhall/Opel cars (the Autel has gone from strength to strength on SAAB as well). Basically it just doesn't get used enough, but I'm about to find out today, ironically enough, whether I can still use it, as I have a Vectra-C in the workshop that I need to be able to monitor better for a cold-start idle problem. Trouble is, it's just another tool in the toolbox that I cannot remember, for the life of me, which laptop has the software, and what conditions I need to be able to fulfil a successful connection, although I do remember that this VAUX-COM toolset is useless away from the internet for most purposes - it just will not start unless it has confirmed a user-profile with some sort of central database - meaning that it was a pain for me alongside motor vehicles that required an ethermet lead trailing back to the network switch by the desk.
As Remmington says, it might be better value to farm the job out - although in my case, I'm so far from civilisation that the option of farming-out is not as easy as some.
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Post by valhalla on May 22, 2020 22:28:44 GMT 1
Further to my comments above, I did actually get the VAUX-COM back up and running today;
It appears that the only reason that I need to be online all the time with this tool is that I use it so rarely, it always needs the "initial" or first-time confirmation from Ilexa.
The updating that is promised on the Ilexa website is not quite as comprehensive as you would have thought, but seems to bring-in firmware updates when you come to use the interface tool for something it thinks that you need the updates for!
The live-data coverage is identical in presentation to that which is available on Autel MaxiSys software (et.al.) but something that strikes me immediately is how much faster the interface works, in that you can record several channels in parallel faster than the Autel can record just one, so if you want to see meaningful B1S1 switching voltages, then VAUX-COM is a far better tool. What also makes this a superior tool to Autel is that the recorded data is a) on your PC already, b) accessible through .csv and .txt files, and c) all filed logically in one place under Windoze file management. Autel is just utterly hateful with the way it hides all your data and service records, so this is a strange comparison, but one which makes VAUX-COM much more like VAG-COM - very familiar indeed!
Obviously, the VAUX-COM does more on the BCM and other peripheral modules, which is not quite as apparent the first time you use it. It is powerful, all the same, but tends to hide its strengths quite well, and it is only by "straying" into the sort of territory that requires such access that you come to appreciate how good it is.
VAUX-COM is only as good as the services supported by the Vauxhall/Opel/SAAB that it is used upon, which was apparent to me as soon as I tried to get any sort of sense from the Vectra-C Z18XE that I needed to diagnose today........misfire counters? forget it!!!!
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Post by givusaclue on May 23, 2020 10:43:55 GMT 1
All of the above points made by much cleverer guys than me are valid, but Vaux com will do it, don’t know which version of opcom as I only have the legit version
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