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ECU and chip
« on: 25 March 2025, 16:53:37 »
Okay looks like I am stuck as chip and code NLA , will try local key person but might end up using after market ECU.
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #1 on: 25 March 2025, 19:25:30 »
More info needed.  Most ECUs are really available 2nd hand, and if you are on about 2.5/3.0 performance chips, they are still fairly available.  If on about key transponders or fobs, loads available.
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #2 on: 25 March 2025, 21:45:54 »
Its the immobilizer chip that I am missing but how do you get one made without the code?
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #3 on: 26 March 2025, 21:10:51 »
Quote from: countrywoman on 25 March 2025, 21:45:54
Its the immobilizer chip that I am missing but how do you get one made without the code?
The transponder in the key fob?  Or the Immobiliser ECU?
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #4 on: 27 March 2025, 09:08:30 »
The one in the key
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #5 on: 27 March 2025, 10:00:54 »
You did install the transponder ring from the donor car...
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #6 on: 27 March 2025, 13:00:06 »
So the transponder chip (in the key) is generic. It is not programmable, but is (semi) unique.

The immobiliser ECU - the ring around the ignition key - needs to be programmed to "learn" each transponder chip in each key, up to a maximum of 5 transponders.  The security code is needed for this.

The immobiliser ECU and engine ECU are paired together with the same security code.

So you need 3 parts to make it work - Engine ECU paired to an immobiliser ECU, with 1 or more transponders learnt by the immobiliser ECU.  Simples.


Or if your donor was from a 1994 or 1995 car, you can get away with just the engine ECU, as the immobiliser was just a simple affair.
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #7 on: 27 March 2025, 13:50:26 »
Does the 2.5/3.0 have a separate immobiliser ECU then?

On the 2.6/3.2 there's the small board in the transponder ring and 3 (iirc), wires to the engine ECU.

The alarm/combined alarm immobiliser is a different system entirely and the donor plod would only ever have had the basic alarm.
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #8 on: 27 March 2025, 14:18:38 »
96 reg (P) and it was a plod estate, can you tell the year build from chassis no 21V 1031075 ?
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #9 on: 27 March 2025, 15:13:42 »
What I need is the security code some how as Vauxhall say they no longer have it. V looks like 97 build.
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #10 on: 27 March 2025, 16:26:51 »
Do you have the car pass?
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #11 on: 27 March 2025, 17:55:35 »
No and only ever had one key that went walkabout.
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #12 on: 27 March 2025, 17:56:52 »
And presumably no V5...
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #13 on: 27 March 2025, 21:24:14 »
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 27 March 2025, 13:50:26
Does the 2.5/3.0 have a separate immobiliser ECU then?

On the 2.6/3.2 there's the small board in the transponder ring and 3 (iirc), wires to the engine ECU.

The alarm/combined alarm immobiliser is a different system entirely and the donor plod would only ever have had the basic alarm.
All post 95 cars have the same setup - Engine ECU paired with immobiliser ECU (the ring around ignition), and the immobiliser ECU is programmed to learn the transponders.

Pre 95 cars have the IR immobiliser system, and I bet none work now, and all have the immobiliser relay bypassed. This is a simpler setup that means with just some wires, you can bypass it.

HTH


This is completely separate to the Central Locking/ATWS where the CL/ATWS behind kick panel is programmed to learn the key fobs, and controls just the CL/ATWS.  This system is not linked to the immobiliser system on post 95 cars (but sort of is on pre 95, due to IR element)
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Re: ECU and chip
« Reply #14 on: 27 March 2025, 21:25:28 »
V is 97 MY.

Try another dealer, but most won't help without logbook.


So engine ECU, immobiliser ring and transponders from a scrappy.
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