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Urgent Help Elm327 Car Won't Start

wilto
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In the process of adding cruise to my focus and we had an error message ATL 0 first now we can't write the old PCM file back to car HELP

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    try disconecting the battery for 30 min make sure you've the radio code

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    Phew, sorted now, no cruise but my car is running, looks like another faulty ELM327. Looks like I'll have to borrow Lenny's.

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    what went wrong

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    http://www.spanglefish.com/TunnelratElectronics/

    get it from these guys.

    you must make sure you follow the steps exactly as it says on elm 327, including the turning off the car for a while, when I did mine I turned the ignition off but didn't take the key out and leave it, just assumed because it wasn't on position 2 it was fine.

    it came up with the error, car was dead.

    turned car off for a while and did it again, sorted.

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    what went wrong

    Don't know exactly, from what I've read, seems like a dodgy ELM adaptor, kept getting error messages saying "AT L0 error or something like that.

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    theirs a lot of dodgy ELM around i made my own they work great :)

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    http://www.spanglefish.com/TunnelratElectronics/get it from these guys.

    Are the ones they sell 100% going to work, they seem to know what they're on about though.

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    http://www.spanglefish.com/TunnelratElectronics/get it from these guys.

    Are the ones they sell 100% going to work, they seem to know what they're on about though.

    yes

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    Cheers Dez, think I'll get one of theirs then.

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    http://www.spanglefish.com/TunnelratElectronics/

    get it from these guys.

    you must make sure you follow the steps exactly as it says on elm 327, including the turning off the car for a while, when I did mine I turned the ignition off but didn't take the key out and leave it, just assumed because it wasn't on position 2 it was fine.

    it came up with the error, car was dead.

    turned car off for a while and did it again, sorted.

    Darren do you have a copy of the user instructions that came with yours? I just got the cable and driver disc and nothing more when I bought mine.

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    Darren do you have a copy of the user instructions that came with yours? I just got the cable and driver disc and nothing more when I bought mine.

    Sorry I don't, but its pretty much all detailed here

    http://www.spanglefish.com/TunnelratElectronics/index.asp?pageid=520030

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    http://www.spanglefish.com/TunnelratElectronics/get it from these guys

    Ordered this afternoon, cheers guys, thanks for all your help

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    Sorry I don't, but its pretty much all detailed here

    http://www.spanglefish.com/TunnelratElectronics/index.asp?pageid=520030

    No worries fella, I will have a read through that page later. Thanks :)

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