Check Engine Light - Code Readers

**101RRS** · 7th June 2012, 04:32 PM

I drove down to Melbourne and back from Canberra yesterday - the 1350km went perfectly with the car preforming great.

I arrived home last night and parked the car and left it until this afternoon. I started it to move it and the check engine light came on immediately on start (never went off from when the ignition went on). It was not on when I switched off last night. The car drives OK and I have gone through both soft and hard resets with no success.

Any ideas? I guess the answer will be anything so that leads to code readers.

What is a cost effective machine that will read and clear codes - the local stealer will probably want somewhere near $100 just to put it on the computer.

FaultMate FCR - cost? Suppliers in Aust? Overseas - Blackbox Solutions?

Nanocom - cost, suppliers etc

Scangauge - I had one until lightning struck next to the car and fried the scangauge - $160 - and will read basic codes and clear them.

Other options??

Thanks

Garry

**Gords** · 7th June 2012, 08:23 PM

Hey mate,

I was only emailing blackbox about the fault mate FCR the other day, unit
Was $308 AU and delivery to Aus was between $38 and $69 AUD depending on postage times.

Can't answer the rest unfortunately!

**101RRS** · 8th June 2012, 12:20 AM

Thanks - have sent them an email as well.

Garry

**kiwirich** · 8th June 2012, 07:24 AM

Hi Gary,

IID Tool from Black box will read the whole car.

Cost was about $350 Aud landed

Richard

**oldsalt** · 8th June 2012, 09:21 AM

I think you'll find the IID Tool is from someone else - not Black Box - here's the link, IIDTool for Land Rover - GAP Diagnostic - cheers.

**101RRS** · 9th June 2012, 09:34 AM

Ordered a Faultmate so we see what codes are in the system. I expect it will be the left EGR. I had this code (and check engine light) last year and was diagnosed by the Scangauge. The fault was not the EGR itself but the connector - pulling it apart and cleaning etc fixed it up and the Scangauge was able to clear the codes and extinguish the check engine light.

Hopefully I just have the same issue and the faultmate will clear the codes.

Garry

**oldsalt** · 9th June 2012, 05:34 PM

Good luck with your Faultmate Gary - and I should add that if anybody decides on the IID tool they will have to contend with the very slow (and disinterested) "service" from Britparts....must be a really good business that can ignore e-mails from people who clearly want to spend their money with them !!!
cheers

**101RRS** · 9th June 2012, 05:41 PM

BBS has been great - immediate response to emails and provided plenty of information to base decisions on.

Garry

**gghaggis** · 9th June 2012, 06:57 PM

Originally Posted by garrycol

BBS has been great - immediate response to emails and provided plenty of information to base decisions on.

Garry

Been my experience too - they seem to have got their act together in terms of purchase and delivery. Hopefully the after-sales service is as good.

Cheers,

Gordon

**101RRS** · 9th June 2012, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by gghaggis

Hopefully the after-sales service is as good.

Cheers,

Gordon

I expect it will - they said they could not send the unit off until Monday as they have to test it first to make sure it was serviceable - being optimistic I took that to mean it was the stage of the QC process prior to sending off - though a pessimist might think they had a bad run and this just make sure the one they are sending was not a dud.

In either case it should be serviceable when delivered.

Check engine light - with no engine performance issue is annoying though.

Garry

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