Thread: M and S lights, turns over but no start

Originally Posted by AK83

I saw one on marketplace for $880!!! the chap is in Ballarat. Read through description etc, and it looks like they are a reseller, kind'a sort'a ... they have products and services, but they don't have any products, nor any services available!

Not sure if scam, or new website for new business, or what.

Gunna pay that, might as well get one from the source. $730, ++ And you will get the correct lead, as one size does not fit all. And a warranty, FWIW.

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Originally Posted by AK83

I dunno what the communication protocol is, but my mid-high end Autel 906 can communicate with the TD5 in some respects.

Haven't fully tested it, and it does give some live tests and live data recording type stuff. I suppose it would as it may be related to BCU rather than ECU, and you'd expect some commonality between V8 BCUs and TD5 BCUs.

But the Autel was twice the price of the nanocom(I needed it for my Puegeots) and I wouldn't consider a cheaper one(yet) as an alternative to a nanocom for a TD5.

If I ever have any TD5 specific issues, I'm going to try to use the Autel and nanocom on it and compare their respective outputs.

Only things I have tested with the Autel is ABS and key programming. ABS does most, if not all, of the nanocom functions that I can find(bleed, tests, and live data) and both nanocom and Autel both had a lot of difficulty getting the key I tried to program for the D2a to stick.
They both stated that the key was synced, but the key just wouldn't work. Original key was crappy as hell, and only one, so I wanted the secutrity of having a spare.

I tried briefly on the D2 to program another key too, and again, both nanocom and Autel both gave the same grief, and I didn't have the 30mins of patience again to got through that. Brother still has his spare on that one, so no rush.

The Autel stuff is fine. My local has one, but for a busy shop, $13K, and licensing of manufactures tech resources. And It won't work with a TD5 D2. Sure, does a few things, but we need to remember that the D2 and P38 were in some sense orphans. P38 security systems spring to mind. Shop keeps a Nanocom...

Coding a key on a Nano is a snap. It's navigating the menus, and remembering that you haven't actually finished when you think you have that's the issue. There is one last step that most, me included, miss , until you have done it a few times, and recently. Which reminds me, I need to check mine. The car does not respond to it anymore, and yet the RF test detects it. Car is currently immobilised , and the sequence of events leading up to this could have triggered it to forget the key. Hope so, cos that would be the easiest fix.... So, it won't have...