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

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.