mickcha55
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- vx commodore acclaim v6
Hello members. A belated thankyou to all the members who have helped me over the years in fixing problems with the family's VT, VX and
VY Commodores.
A lead up to this post. My beloved VX V6 Commodore sedan was taken off the road around 3.5 years ago as I had an ongoing fault with the Airbag system.
Before I had time to work further on the car our home was bashed senseless by a severe Hail/Torremtial rainfall.
Ceilings in 3 rooms caved in as water flooded into the ceilings.
Finally after chasing unhelpful insurance our home was finally repaired. This took over 2 years to resolve.
apologies for my prattling... ):
I finally had time to try and resurrect my car about 6 weeks ago.
Many fault light issues later, the main problem was fixed by changing the ABS Module .Thanks to the many who posted info relating to this
I have one fault remaining.
The ABS module rplacement stopped the ALL Warning light on and both fans racing constantly.
Now the car runs light a dream when I can get it started.
When I start the car now, the check phases run through and the different warning lights go out. As they are going through checks, the CHECK engine light comes on and stays on.
The car has dual fuel with an after market LPG system installed.
At this point the car will not start after many attempts, on either petrol or LPG.
I found that if I left the ignition on for 35 seconds up to a couple of minutes, the Engine Fault light will go out.
At this point the car will start. It runs perfectly and will run all day if I wanted it to.
When I park the car for even a few minutes and come back, I have the same Engine fault light issue?
I have had the car scanned and multiple historic faults cleared., except 2 faults could not be deleted.
This was listed twice as Fault 05-Instrument - ID: 16 - DTC-(Current) ABS/ETC Fault Logged. There were 2 entries exactly the same reported.
I had a 2nd scan run again. The scan reported all systems OK except the same 2 faults. The techo could still not delete them?
While the engine fault light is on the car does not communicate with the scanner ?
I had NRMA roadside service come while irt would not start. The mechanic said the same thing, that the 2 different scanners he was using would not talk to the cars computers ?
He suggested that it may be an Imobiliser issue and suggested cleaning the key where the metal pin comes out, and also clean the slipring the key contacts.
I did this, as well as trying a trying a couple of spare keys I have, but the problem still persists.
Is it possible the BCM module could be causing this?
I am just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience, and can shed some light on this ?
Kind Regards
Michael
VY Commodores.
A lead up to this post. My beloved VX V6 Commodore sedan was taken off the road around 3.5 years ago as I had an ongoing fault with the Airbag system.
Before I had time to work further on the car our home was bashed senseless by a severe Hail/Torremtial rainfall.
Ceilings in 3 rooms caved in as water flooded into the ceilings.
Finally after chasing unhelpful insurance our home was finally repaired. This took over 2 years to resolve.
apologies for my prattling... ):
I finally had time to try and resurrect my car about 6 weeks ago.
Many fault light issues later, the main problem was fixed by changing the ABS Module .Thanks to the many who posted info relating to this
I have one fault remaining.
The ABS module rplacement stopped the ALL Warning light on and both fans racing constantly.
Now the car runs light a dream when I can get it started.
When I start the car now, the check phases run through and the different warning lights go out. As they are going through checks, the CHECK engine light comes on and stays on.
The car has dual fuel with an after market LPG system installed.
At this point the car will not start after many attempts, on either petrol or LPG.
I found that if I left the ignition on for 35 seconds up to a couple of minutes, the Engine Fault light will go out.
At this point the car will start. It runs perfectly and will run all day if I wanted it to.
When I park the car for even a few minutes and come back, I have the same Engine fault light issue?
I have had the car scanned and multiple historic faults cleared., except 2 faults could not be deleted.
This was listed twice as Fault 05-Instrument - ID: 16 - DTC-(Current) ABS/ETC Fault Logged. There were 2 entries exactly the same reported.
I had a 2nd scan run again. The scan reported all systems OK except the same 2 faults. The techo could still not delete them?
While the engine fault light is on the car does not communicate with the scanner ?
I had NRMA roadside service come while irt would not start. The mechanic said the same thing, that the 2 different scanners he was using would not talk to the cars computers ?
He suggested that it may be an Imobiliser issue and suggested cleaning the key where the metal pin comes out, and also clean the slipring the key contacts.
I did this, as well as trying a trying a couple of spare keys I have, but the problem still persists.
Is it possible the BCM module could be causing this?
I am just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience, and can shed some light on this ?
Kind Regards
Michael