Brilliant! I've been looking for a key fob for ages!
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My Td5 was the same Vince. So I looked at doing the mod as suggested in here and found that the wire was already up in the roof lining. As you know, I had this vehicle from new, so go figure.
I did find that it worked from a longer distance if approached from the back of the vehicle.
Thanks for the info guys. Looks like a job for the weekend.
Just to get it straight, the orange grey wire in the fuse box is the same and can be extended or do I need to pull the instrument cluster out to get to it????
Chenz,
My remote wire was accessible from the fuse box area under the steering wheel,
Pretty much like Drover said in his post (No:17) in the "Puma remote locking distance" thread that I linked earlier.
One end of it was just hanging loose and was easy to grab and modify...
Mike.
Just some info....
The genuine key is only from memory $80 and the separate transponder is $50, so if you happen to go swimming with it, you are only up for a transponder.
I find disabling the immobiliser a far more useful thing to get done on a Defender, so when the transponder's battery goes flat, gets wet, or gets lost in the middle of nowhere a Defender owner can simply drive home..... the D3, D4, 200 series Land Cruiser owner will be stuck in the dessert with a locked or atleast imobilised vehicle.
Regards
Daz
You can disable the immobiliser using the old Land Rover T4 which works on Defender TD5 and Defender TDCi (puma) 2.4lt (just select 2004) (yes fancy that, they used the old software on the first of the TDCi models).
After that the Defender TDCi (puma) 2.2 use the Land Rover SDD software, I use SDD for everything now though.
I've not ever used other diagnostic tools, but if they have a "country select" or a "pre-delivery" option then I'm guessing you could use it.
Regards
Daz
Just been amusing myself locking and unlocking the Edjitmobile from my front veranda some 15 metres from the vehicle.
Opened the fuse box and found the grey orange wire, joined this to about a 1.5m long piece of auto electrical wire about twice the thickness. Undid the speaker and used some tie wire to guide this up to the A pillar and ran it up there into the roof liner.
I undid the side vent in the dash to get better vision and guide the wire.
All done took about 20mins.
Thanks for the tips guys.:D