GAP iid tool - can you reset factory EAS settings?

[GregMilner]

Ahoy the brains trust - I've been playing around with my Gap diagnostic tool, fiddling with the suspension height settings. Works great, lifted all settings by a couple of inches and put them back again, but now (seniors moment coming up) I 'think' I reset everything back to original levels, but can't quite remember if they were exactly that!

Does anyone (BobD?) who has one of these remember if there's a way to restore factory settings, just in case?

I'm about to go and get a wheel alignment, so it'd be excellent if I could be sure I was putting into tight tolerance mode in 'normal' level where normal level is the factory setting.

TIA!

[Tombie]

Hi!

Factory settings requires use of a tape measure and knowledge of the factory height to guard.

I’d have to go searching for the heights but there’s a spec.

You then need to make adjustments using the GAP tool to each corner until it is stock height.

Does that make sense?

[l00kin4]

Answer here: D3 suspension calibration (https://www.aulro.com/afvb/l319-discovery-3-and-4-a/246521-d3-suspension-calibration.html)

David

[GregMilner]

Makes perfect sense thanks Tombie and David:)

[IndusD4]

The first time you plug in your IIDTool, it saves all settings from the car including height settings (see section 1.8.4 from the GAP manual). Then you do a "restore - original" (section 3.12.3 from the GAP manual) to go back to when you first plugged in your IIDTool.

Ron

[letherm]

If you're only looking at height settings. this is from the GAP manual for Bluetooth version.

"4.4.4 App : The Default value is the original backup up value upon
first connection of the tool to a vehicle and cannot be edited."

You can press Default to reset heights values to as they were when you first started.

Martin

[GregMilner]

Thank you gentlemen, much appreciated. Will go through that process tomorrow!

[ATH]

Good thread this as I've yet to play with my tool........:)
I have got it all unlocked etc. and downloaded the manual and am now looking forward to never having to use it.
AlanH.

[IndusD4]

You should play with it, just because you can. Read the ECU faults, email them to yourself, clear them. It is a great tool!

Ron

[GregMilner]

Got the wheel alignment done (again).
Having had one alignment done at a local shop ("Mate, we've done lots of these, no problem") it clearly was a botched job, the car obviously still pulling to the left, so I rang around and found a bigger shop (Tyrepower, in Busselton) which also professed to be experienced with air-suspended Land Rovers. I explained carefully that it would need to be set to tight tolerance mode, but no, they didn't have a diagnostic tool to do that, so I said I'd bring my own.

Even as the young technician was putting the car on the hoist, he was insisting he'd done alignments on "more than a hundred of these" and had never heard of TTM, but I insisted, and went through the procedure as described in the Gap manual.

Result: he found the readouts from the original alignment were severely awry, camber and toe-in all over the place. The car now drives much better, and only pulls a little bit to to the left on an obviously left-cambered road.

For those who have a Gap tool and haven't yet used it for this, here are the steps from the home menu page, in order:

First, choose "service test" on the home menu.
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Once the alignment is done, go back to the app and select 'set normal tolerance':

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Note that prior to the procedure, the car has to be on level ground with the ignition on (not running though) and suspension set in normal mode.

Hope that's as clear as mud.

[eddomak]

Good thread this as I've yet to play with my tool........:)
I have got it all unlocked etc. and downloaded the manual and am now looking forward to never having to use it.
AlanH.

I hope to never need to use it for a proper fault either.

But meanwhile it has been useful for:
1) Enabling Global Close for windows (ie hold Lock button on remote and all the windows will close)
2) Tight Tolerance Mode for wheel alignment (as well documented above[thumbsupbig])

3) Changing suspension heights for more clearance offroad

[BobD]

Greg, I've never used mine to change suspension settings. I have Llams for that on both my "new" L405 (actually 2013 model) and my D4.

Glad you got it sorted out. It's a bit scary when you change settings and wonder whether you have mucked something up.

[letherm]

Greg, I've never used mine to change suspension settings. I have Llams for that on both my "new" L405 (actually 2013 model) and my D4.

Glad you got it sorted out. It's a bit scary when you change settings and wonder whether you have mucked something up.

I tossed up whether to get LLAMS but decided that the GAPIID tool did what I mainly needed which was lower the suspension as low as possible to help swmbo get into the car. With it you can lower to bump stops which is way lower than access height. It only takes a few taps on the phone to do and you have the advantage of having the diagnostic tool as well. Not for everyone but it made sense to me. I would use this several times every week.

Martin

[ATH]

The tool is definitely a wonderful bit of necessary gadgetry but I wonder if apart from suspension height and fault finding, if it can be used to turn off that awful noise when reversing.
Drives both the Cook and I nuts (nuttier?) as it even picks up the cars shadow as an obstruction and is really just so annoying and un-necessary.
Please please tell me it can do this little thing for me. :)
AlanH.

[Ean Austral]

Isnt there a switch on the panel that has the hazards on it , that turns off the rear sensors .. Has the letter P plus some sound wave thingys

Cheers Ean

[letherm]

Isnt there a switch on the panel that has the hazards on it , that turns off the rear sensors .. Has the letter P plus some sound wave thingys

Cheers Ean

My MY13 HSE has this switch but from previous threads I've read not all cars have it. It's very handy though as my front sensors, now in a bullbar, do not like wet weather sometimes and go off for no reason.

Martin

[Tombie]

The tool is definitely a wonderful bit of necessary gadgetry but I wonder if apart from suspension height and fault finding, if it can be used to turn off that awful noise when reversing.
Drives both the Cook and I nuts (nuttier?) as it even picks up the cars shadow as an obstruction and is really just so annoying and un-necessary.
Please please tell me it can do this little thing for me. :)
AlanH.

Yes you can!

[discomatt69]

I would pay well to have my reverse sensors turned off when the camper is on the back. Not sure if its a wiring fault but the rear sensors pick up the camper even though the car knows that its there, the indicators show the trailer symbol

[ATH]

Encouraging words Tombie but now you have to tell me how. :) Drives me mad with it's constant noise. Well, actually I'm a bit mad anyway according to many people so this just makes me madder.
Drives me to drink.....
AlanH.

[GregMilner]

I would pay well to have my reverse sensors turned off when the camper is on the back. Not sure if its a wiring fault but the rear sensors pick up the camper even though the car knows that its there, the indicators show the trailer symbol

Matt when Autospark wired my spotlights and Anderson plug and various other bits and pieces they installed a switch near the two 12 volt sockets in the back that turns off the parking sensors when a trailer's attached. I just leave it switched all the time now, so no parking sensor noises.

[discomatt69]

I have the same switch, with it turned off the trailer lights don't work, with it on they do but it makes no change to the reverse sensors

[Djilani]

Thanks GregMilner
alot you save me with suspension problem