Thread: New Defender Purchase...Security Card?

Did recall that on my D2 the original EKA code didn't work. After D2 arrived back at Dealer on a truck and they interrogated the ECU the printed and LRA code had one incorrect digit. Another reason to try it out, or get the dealer to interrogate the ECu for the code rather than getting it off of the LRA computer.

RF

Originally Posted by Rick Fischer

EKA as far as I recall + Emergency Key Access.

Input the key code as a combination code into the ign will enable the vehicle to be started (if it will crank) if for whatever the reason the fob does not enable the ECU.

Dealers! EKAs are applicable across the range from Vogues to 90s.

Had plenty of practice with my D2 in the early years when all the shops (chemists and banks) burglar alarms would jam the radio key

My SVX is along lines of:

Remove fob from keyring
unlock drivers door and enter
insert key and move to position II ( the number of times indicated by the first no. of combination) until horn sounds.
Open and close driver's door

Repeat for each other code (combination) number.

If you get it right alarm light will extinguish

If wrong the horn will sound twice

You will only get three goes. then you will need to wait 30 mins before attempting again.

Recommend that you do it for practice as a spare time activity before you absolutely must have to do it with the horn barping and carrying on, rain peeing down and the Mrs and kids going off.

SODS Law says you will not have a disabled ECU on a fine sunny day when you are all by yourself and have plenty of time to nut out!

Cheers

RF

Ha! I just learnt about the EKA the hard way and at the worst possible time! My fob battery went flat at 10 pm at night, on Good Friday in the main street of the town of MacLean, up on the NSW North Coast. Of course I hadn't read that bit in the owners manual - which was in the car anyway. Fob didn't work and tried to use the key to open the car and the alarm goes off. I tried to start the engine and of course the immobiliser kicks in. Still didn't think to read the LR owners manual and end up catching a cab back to my lodgings at the Yamba Caravan park. Get a cab back next morning and ring the 24 hr LR Assist line - actually they were quite helpful and within the hour, an auto electrician from Yamba arrives and this time with the help of the manual, and the EKA code which was stapled to the back page of one of the booklets in the leather folder, we finally get it all sorted and the engine running. Did I mention that I bought a new battery and installed it in the fob back in Yamba? Not actually sitting inside the 90 like it says to do in the book!

A bit older and a bit wiser now. However, still think having an alarm system is just plain stupid - one more thing that can go wrong and usually at the worst possible time.
cheers
Andrew

I imagine EKA is pronounced EEK when needed
Can the immobilized function be removed from the ECU ?

Hi All,
do the latest cars ( eg late MY13 and MY14's)have these codes as I asked my dealer and he said no--the radio certainly does not need one as I have had the battery disconnected and the radio re programmed itself automatically. I had asked specifically about the EKA code as well.

(MY '13 90) Radio does not need one.
I didn't receive a security card, & I'm still to learn what my EKA code is.
Pickles.