Thread: Nanocom / Hawkeye

Hiya browny

Our main priority with The Nanocom One and the Nanocom Evolution has been to debug it such that everything it does works as flawlessly as possible.

Although we seem to have mainly achieved this already, with no small thanks to the interaction of many members of this board, but as this post indicates, and more so the linked post, it seems we have still to overcome
some aspects of the TD5 flashing functionality that are not quite yet totally as anyone could wish for.

Once we have sorted this last small thing we may well look at Puma EMS flash re-Programming with custom maps etc, which is already possible with our MSV-2 system.

However we will certainly not be looking to provide any Reading capability.

To Colin,

I am trying to work out what I need in a Nanocom but it seems you don't actually have any way I can see of contacting your company via your web site. Is there somewhere around the Central Coast NSW where I can see one of these units via a dealer. Not too keen just forking out 300 odd Euro through a site with no apparent contactability.
Thanks
Grant

Grant
Contact details at the bottom of the page

Blackbox Solutions Ltd - Designers and manufacturers of the best vehicle diagnostic tools.

Not sure what else you want, you cant choose what you want in a Nanocom apart from the vehicle you want it for.

BBS have been pretty good if you buy from them I would be surprised if they did any wrong. Maybe you should look at another forum members unit to see if it does what you want.

Hiya Grant

There was a time when it was almost impossible to contact the sole individual, via a single e-mail address that could supply you with a nanocom. And even if you were lucky enough to actually get one, it would be buggy and there were little to no updates being provided for it.

However things have radically changed in the last year or two. Now there is quite a team of folks supplying and supporting the nanocom through multiple e-mail addresses, and many newere owners will testify that buying one is now a delightful process. Debugging it and supplying regular updates is now also common practice, and there is now even an owners forum for it. Bugs in the system are now really hard to find and are regarded as extremely rare.

You say you think we are hard to contact, but yet here you are posting up on an Australian Based forum and being responded to by the actual owner of a company based in Cyprus.

Just as you happen to know my name, you must also happen to know who i am am and that what i provide compared to what the Nanocom advertises it does is truly beyond any question or doubt.

Thanks Djam1 I have worked out whats going on and why it seems there are no contact details.

I was redirected from the Nanocom.it site to the BBS store which doesn't have any contacts.
https://blackbox-solutions.com/shop/

When you select the home tab it still defaults to the store site hence still no contact details.
The link you sent is the actual home of BBS and hence contact details.

Colin,
I appreciate your prompt reply and can see you have been working hard to get the Nanocom sorted. I just wanted to check that my 2000 D2 TD5 is definately compatible with your system as I keep sseing coments that only 2002 models on are ODBII compliant. Mine has no sticker to that effect and I want to be sure it will definately work on the 2000 model.
Thanks again
Grant

Originally Posted by Scorpion625

Thanks Djam1 I have worked out whats going on and why it seems there are no contact details.

I was redirected from the Nanocom.it site to the BBS store which doesn't have any contacts.
https://blackbox-solutions.com/shop/

When you select the home tab it still defaults to the store site hence still no contact details.
The link you sent is the actual home of BBS and hence contact details.

Colin,
I appreciate your prompt reply and can see you have been working hard to get the Nanocom sorted. I just wanted to check that my 2000 D2 TD5 is definately compatible with your system as I keep sseing coments that only 2002 models on are ODBII compliant. Mine has no sticker to that effect and I want to be sure it will definately work on the 2000 model.
Thanks again
Grant

Grant,

You have no worries on that score. The nanocom was designed from the start to work with the Td5. When the site says "supports td5" there are no qualifiers as to year etc.

None of the Td5s full supports OBDii hence the need for tools like the nanocom to access the ECUs.

Cheers
Paul

Originally Posted by OffTrack

Grant,

You have no worries on that score. The nanocom was designed from the start to work with the Td5. When the site says "supports td5" there are no qualifiers as to year etc.

None of the Td5s full supports OBDii hence the need for tools like the nanocom to access the ECUs.

Cheers
Paul

Thanks Paul,
much appreciated. I think I'll just get one. Seems like it will save many a long hour knowing where to start looking for issues and hopefully picking up on any before they become problems in the middle of no where.
I had a delaminated intercooler hose giving me grief intermittently and I figure as it completely collapsed and blocked the turbo outlet to the intercooler it may have shown an over boost error which would have made it easier to work out where to start looking (maybe). Great rig these TD5's but all my experience was on DISCO 1 V8I which for the most part was pretty straightforward to sort out.
Cheers
Grant

Hi Grant,

Mechanical issues aren't going generate error codes or reporting in any diagnostic tool.

Using your collapsed hose as an example, you won't see an error at all. What you'd need to do is monitor or record the fuelling inputs. The Manifold Absolute Pressure sensor is on the intake manifold so after located after the turbo hoses, and the the output from this sensor is used to calculate the level of boost. If you had collapsed hoses you'd see the MAP reading drop towards ambient pressure or even below due to the blocked hoses.

So while you wouldn't get a fault code, you would see fairly quickly that the engine wasn't making boost.

If you are going down the diagnostic tool path, I'd highly recommend getting a copy of the RAVE CD - I'd go as far as saying it essential if you want to do anything more than clear fault codes. The Description and Operation sections for each subsystem are invaluable and often the best guide to what setting options are available. In particular the Td5 Engine management section will give you a good overview of what each sensor does.

The forum shop sells the cd's here: Dave's Interesting Things - RAVE IIa

cheers
Paul