The ignition switched supply comes from fuse 23 which also powers the airbag system so it should wake it up.
The odo sync in the Nanocom forces them to be the same but if you swap another one in, you will get an Odo Error on the message centre every time you start the car.
Mileage is stored in both the cluster and the BeCM. Problem is that they talk to each other and both will take on the mileage of the highest one. So if the spare cluster has higher mileage stored in it than your BeCM, the BeCM will then store that.
The two blacks are ground and the two purples come from Fuse 1, but that is a permanent supply, there is also an ignition switched supply to it to wake it up. Ignition switched is on a Green wire on pin 1 of the connector.
Did you have to do the security learn? Or did it just start without having to do anything? Good news either way.
Every time you open or close a door, the BeCM sees that as a change of state so wakes up. Leave them open and it will go to sleep after 2 minutes but not if you keep opening and closing them. I take it you are doing away with the door amps? I did much the same and upgraded mine from lowline to midline by adding the midrange speakers and the filter caps. Been considering putting crossovers in there instead but don't know if it will be worth pulling all the door panels off for a marginal improvement. With the JBL Stage 600C speakers in all doors and a powered sub under my seat, it sounds pretty damn good as it is.
But the tyre will never stand the 10 bar pressure of the LPG and you won't get much in it either......
How long is a piece of string? If someone has an identical car and wants to convert it, then not much less than new price. If someone wants to buy it to see if they can make it work on a different car, they aren't going to gamble too much and will offer not a lot.
Yes, next page, Security Learn, Ignition off then back on, security then should say Yes.
On GEMS, a click from a relay inside the BeCM is all you hear if sync has been lost, so that, coupled with no Check Engine light, would seem to suggest that is the problem.
What year is the car? If an early car with pre V36 BeCM, it can't connect if the BeCM is in an alarm or immobilised state. Anything unusual on the dash?
Go into GEMS with the Nanocom, go to Diagnostics - Inputs - Engine Others and scroll through the pages until you get to Security Mobilised. If it says Yes, it is in sync, if it says No it needs to be put into Security Learn (on the same menu but it also appears under Utilities), turn the ignition Off then back on again. Security Mobilised should then change to Yes.
Don't forget that the Nanocom will only connect to the BeCM with the ignition OFF and the GEMS ECU with it ON.
When you say it won't start, does the starter spin it over and it doesn't fire or does the starter do nothing too?
Yes, if you look they have 3 pins that are parallel to one another and one that is at 90 degrees to the others. You need to jumper between the one pin that is at 90 degrees and the one opposite it. Pins marked 30 and 87 here https://www.autoelectricsupplies.co.uk/image_uploads/140201-drawing_large.gif
No check engine is, as Gordon says, due to no power to the engine ECU. Usual cause it it having got it's knickers in a knot and lost sync with the BeCM. If you've got a Nanocom its simple enough to sort out but first check that relays 15 (Ignition on relay) and 19 (ECU power relay) are operating when you turn the ignition on.
Brushes, and to a lesser degree regulators, wear out and fail. Rectifiers rarely do, in fact I'd say the bearings are more likely to fail than the rectifiers.. At 450k, mine is on its second regulator and third set of brushes but still the original bearings and rectifiers.
Are they M10? Early heads were Imperial (5/16 UNC I think) while later ones were M8.
Although I said I wouldn't be using P&O again, and in all honesty didn't expect them to start up again, I had 3 pre-paid returns on a season ticket. I asked about a refund but they pointed me towards the T&Cs which clearly stated that they wouldn't refund anything while they still existed (and if they subsequently went bust I'd be unlikely to get anything anyway). Tried to book one crossing with them a couple of weeks ago but as none of their ships had passed the safety inspection they weren't operating so couldn't provide me with a crossing and booked me with DFDS instead. Paid for by P&O from my season ticket, a bit of a result really.
Then I needed a crossing going out on Thursday and coming back today. Initially we were booked on P& O both ways, then they sent e an email saying the outbound crossing had been pushed back by 2.5 hours and if this wasn't suitable they'd transfer me to DFDS. So I said to go for it and used DFDS, but paid for on my pre-paid P&O season ticket. Only problem was, we were coming back with P&O.....
They currently only have the Spirit of Britain running, so there's a crossing every 4 hours. They actually moved our our return back by an hour but we weren't too bothered as it meant we didn't have to get up at stupid o'clock to set off. Driving onto the ferry and parking up we were directed to the correct place by a smiling, not sure what the PC correct expression is these days, dark skinned gentleman who greeted everyone with a wave and a good afternoon. In the lounge it was a different matter. One English guy, who had probably escaped the chop and two others who looked like they'd picked them up from the refugee camp in Calais, put them in an ill fitting suit and told them to got on with it. English was most definitely not their first language, if indeed they actually spoke it and they didn't seem to understand it, they couldn't work the tills and they couldn't count out the change correctly if someone paid with cash (the guy next to me paid in cash, the till said he needed 65p in change and was given four 5p pieces.....). As for speed of service, blimey, the one guy on his own would have been faster without his 'helpers'. Fortunately the skipper sounded English when he came on the tannoy although we did follow a DFDS ferry across the Channel so there was a pretty good chance we wouldn't get lost.....
Not so much as done to it, more what have I done with it. Drove it from Den Haag (The Hague) in the Netherlands back home via Calais-Dover (P&O, another story). Had a little Audi A2 that needed taking to its new owner who was then going to drive it to Latvia and a load of stuff that needed bringing back so flying back, while it would have been a lot quicker, wasn't an option. We set off on Thursday and Dina insisted that she was driving my car while I drove the A2. Her argument was that she hadn't driven a manual for a long time and getting onto the ferry may have involved driving up the ramp. Recently she's used the Ascot quite a bit but only for fairly short journeys and usually only drives mine for a couple of hours at a time when we do our long trans-European trips and I need some kip.
This time we had 3 hours to get to Dover, a ferry crossing, followed by what should have been 4 hours but became 5 due to road works on the Antwerp ring road. She's sitting there quite happy, or as happy as anyone can be while creeping along at 10 mph every couple of minutes, as she's got an auto gearbox and fully functioning air conditioning. Me however, I'm sitting in a car that has a large, sloping, windscreen that makes it like a greenhouse, with an outdoor temperature of 23.5 degrees showing on the dashboard, no AC and a manual gearbox so having to keep exercising my left leg......
But, when we finally arrived she commented that she now understands how I can drive for hours at a time and not get tired. She reckons it's just like driving a sofa.
Yours is the diesel so you don't appear to have many options, https://www.lrdirect.com/stc2227-alternator. Although someone did identify a replacement regulator and brushes assembly for around £20 which might be a better option as you will keep the original Bosch (I believe) innards.
Not quite. I pulled onto the forecourt at Morrisons in Wisbech and saw another 38 filling up on the RH side of the pump so I pulled up to the LH side (having the filler in the centre of the back bumper means I can fill from either side). I'd just connected the hose to start filling and Sam sticks his head around from the other side of the pumps and says, "I think the word is, snap". We had a chat, I asked if he was on any forum (just in case it was someone we already knew) and he said he wasn't, so I told him to find the pub......
Not on Nigel's. It is definitely tappet noise coming from the top end and not an exhaust blow. It's probably one knackered follower but as it has been doing it for years and he maintains it has never got any worse, then it hasn't really been a priority.
Today I checked the tyre pressures, checked the coolant level, topped up the washer fluid and treated it to half a litre of oil (well, it is 8,000 miles since I last changed it). Then took it into the next village for a Romanian car wash and had to go over to Wisbech so filled up with LPG in Morrisons and found another like minded soul in an early Vogue SE. Will top it up on the way to Dover in the morning which will get me to Belgium as I'm doing a quick run over to Amsterdam tomorrow. Back home Friday night, Paris and back on Monday and a real long one to Sweden at the end of the month. How on earth did I ever find time to go to work before I retired?
You found it then. Nice looking car you've got there, good job mine was washed today......