Post 128023 by T5ER on 2006-07-23 19:52:55
After a 3 painstaking weeks of fiddling about with my immobiliser end (about the size of two matchstick heads) i decided to bite the bullet and attempt removal.So out i went armed with tipex to mark the wire individually ready to cut just in case it did not work.Marked all 7 wires and then cut them all,i felt rather proud untill i tried turning the ignition and nothing :slap: :jaw: ,so panic had set in now i could not drive the car.So had a fag traced the wires upto the ignition switch,marked them and pulled em off rejoined one of my ignition wires that they had cut,and tried again the car turned over but did not fire.There were 2 wires left that dissapeared up the back of the dash and up towards the engine bay.They went to the fusebox were i had noticed to black wires when i first bought my car i thought they had bypassed the fuse for my fuel pump,which they had but for the immobiliser,so pulled them out put the fuse back in and tried again,:thewave: he fired straight up,so i am now over the moon.
Oh and the biggest laugh was it was a thatcham cat 1 and took me 20 mins to disconnect it all and remove it from the car,plus all the wires were just twisted together no proper joints and no solder to bee seen
Post 128026 by DONKEYT5 on 2006-07-23 19:54:45
today seems like a proper volvo day,loads achieved while the sun is out!!
Post 128028 by T5ER on 2006-07-23 19:56:09
[QUOTE=DON-T5]today seems like a proper volvo day,loads achieved while the sun is out!![/QUOTE]
LOL very true but unlike you mate i had to dodge the rain showers
Post 128047 by arbee on 2006-07-23 21:09:53
fuel pump circuit? thats what I said when i saw it at wobbly's! - do i get a gold star!
Post 128091 by Rufe on 2006-07-23 23:25:15
[QUOTE=T5ER]
Oh and the biggest laugh was it was a thatcham cat 1 and took me 20 mins to disconnect it all and remove it from the car,plus all the wires were just twisted together no proper joints and no solder to bee seen[/QUOTE]
thats quite shocking to be honest.
Post 128138 by abdul on 2006-07-24 08:13:52
a diy job that nearly went horribley wrong luckly u sorted it
Post 128156 by T5ER on 2006-07-24 10:01:22
[QUOTE=arbee]fuel pump circuit? thats what I said when i saw it at wobbly's! - do i get a gold star![/QUOTE]
You do mate i could not believe the workmanship
Post 128160 by T5ER on 2006-07-24 10:03:36
[QUOTE=Rufe]thats quite shocking to be honest.[/QUOTE]
very they did it on the ignition switch block itself they cut one wire stripped the ends then just twisted the black wires on and tapped them the 2 other wires they spliced in and twisted and tapped i was shocked to say the least.It makes me think now how good some of these thatcham aprroved fitters actually are
Post 128161 by T5ER on 2006-07-24 10:04:19
[QUOTE=abdul]a diy job that nearly went horribley wrong luckly u sorted it[/QUOTE]
Me too mate dont know how long it has been fitted but tbh it was a short circuit waiting to happen
Post 128163 by Vikingxl on 2006-07-24 10:05:32
Well done mate it will stop you having to mess about with that stupid bit of plastic now
Big up the pork pie faced gimp!
Post 128166 by T5ER on 2006-07-24 10:09:13
[QUOTE=vikingt5]Well done mate it will stop you having to mess about with that stupid bit of plastic now
Big up the pork pie faced gimp![/QUOTE]
LOL tell me about it thats why i thought i would have a go at it,glad i did after seeing the bodged workmanship
Post 128365 by Rufe on 2006-07-24 18:05:03
that looks very much like the Toad thatcham 2 immobiliser i had on my vectra
