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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #30 on: July 04, 2016, 08:33:48 am »
These is a guy that says he knows how to fix it but won't share the info.
Spacewalker messaged me asking to upload the eeprom from the cluster. Will need to do that in the next few days when i get a chance

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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #31 on: July 04, 2016, 09:48:51 am »

Ah. Okay.

Should I be looking at getting my cluster read? Or should I wait until you have a clear idea what needs changing?

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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #32 on: July 04, 2016, 09:19:37 pm »
These is a guy that says he knows how to fix it but won't share the info.
Sadly Mike people in the know don't like to share the info and it's not just this site but others too. I've asked a good few questions that people have the answer to but ain't letting up.

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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #33 on: July 04, 2016, 10:22:53 pm »
These is a guy that says he knows how to fix it but won't share the info.
Sadly Mike people in the know don't like to share the info and it's not just this site but others too. I've asked a good few questions that people have the answer to but ain't letting up.

I thought the whole idea of these forums was for 'information sharing' purposes with like-minded individuals??? To be honest, I haven't come across anyone like that on this forum. Everyone has been helpful.

I guess when it is business-related/profit involved, then people may be a little apprehensive about sharing 'free' information. Just my thoughts.
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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #34 on: July 04, 2016, 10:30:11 pm »

@RetroRaz  You wouldn't believe it. After 3 years almost of being locked out of my menus, tonight I got back in!

I can only assume it was after doing that adaptation, channel 0, save.  I did it a few times.

What I think triggered it was ignition cycling on / off as today, 1st time using the car, it started working when I got to the Shell station!

Im over the moon, now I can fit Polar Advance!

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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #35 on: July 04, 2016, 10:48:41 pm »
These is a guy that says he knows how to fix it but won't share the info.
Sadly Mike people in the know don't like to share the info and it's not just this site but others too. I've asked a good few questions that people have the answer to but ain't letting up.

I thought the whole idea of these forums was for 'information sharing' purposes with like-minded individuals??? To be honest, I haven't come across anyone like that on this forum. Everyone has been helpful.

I guess when it is business-related/profit involved, then people may be a little apprehensive about sharing 'free' information. Just my thoughts.
Yes that's right Rash but not everyone wants to play ball :doh: , when it comes to profit money is when people don't want to share the info which I think is fair play but who wants to travel 100+miles for a job that could be done locally with the right information from the right people as not everyone will be able to master these techniques or have the ability to reprogram certain things like whoops That was Tfsi_Mike who just pointed out polar blah blah lol I don't even know that it is  :signLOL:.
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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #36 on: July 04, 2016, 10:54:41 pm »

@RetroRaz  You wouldn't believe it. After 3 years almost of being locked out of my menus, tonight I got back in!

I can only assume it was after doing that adaptation, channel 0, save.  I did it a few times.

What I think triggered it was ignition cycling on / off as today, 1st time using the car, it started working when I got to the Shell station!

Im over the moon, now I can fit Polar Advance!
Oh fantastic!

Im going to have to give this a try!

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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #37 on: July 04, 2016, 10:56:27 pm »

Keep us posted! Make sure to cycle the power a couple of times!

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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #38 on: July 05, 2016, 08:55:52 am »
I might try this


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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #39 on: July 05, 2016, 09:23:46 am »
These is a guy that says he knows how to fix it but won't share the info.
Sadly Mike people in the know don't like to share the info and it's not just this site but others too. I've asked a good few questions that people have the answer to but ain't letting up.

I thought the whole idea of these forums was for 'information sharing' purposes with like-minded individuals??? To be honest, I haven't come across anyone like that on this forum. Everyone has been helpful.

I guess when it is business-related/profit involved, then people may be a little apprehensive about sharing 'free' information. Just my thoughts.
Yes that's right Rash but not everyone wants to play ball :doh: , when it comes to profit money is when people don't want to share the info which I think is fair play but who wants to travel 100+miles for a job that could be done locally with the right information from the right people as not everyone will be able to master these techniques or have the ability to reprogram certain things like whoops That was Tfsi_Mike who just pointed out polar blah blah lol I don't even know that it is  :signLOL:.

@r5gtt   Fantastic little mod. http://www.auto-polar.com

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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #40 on: July 05, 2016, 10:10:32 am »
@Tfsi_Mike I couldn't find what it does mate  :doh:

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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #41 on: July 05, 2016, 11:25:16 am »

Everything that you can check on Vcds, you can have displayed on the MFD. boost, misfire detection etc

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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #42 on: July 05, 2016, 01:16:01 pm »
Is that without the need of plugging vcds in lol

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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #43 on: July 05, 2016, 03:35:06 pm »
Is that without the need of plugging vcds in lol

Exactly that. You fit the little polar box and then have access to all the parameters and some extra convenience stuff.

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Re: Retrofit Day Leicester/Nottingham, Saturday 1st July
« Reply #44 on: July 05, 2016, 09:14:41 pm »
Is that without the need of plugging vcds in lol

Exactly that. You fit the little polar box and then have access to all the parameters and some extra convenience stuff.
Sounds awesome but at what cost and is it diyable :signLOL: