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EmpingSaab
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 Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:18 pm |
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| Light Pressure Turbo |
Joined: Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:17 pm
Posts: 303
Location: Peterborough
Car Models: Saab 9000s
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My Tech 2 beeps then shows the message "establishing communications" for about 5 secs, every 30 secs or so. It works fine otherwise. I've heard it can be caused by a faulty part or can be fixed somehow. Any advice or recommendations welcome since it is really frustrating (and worrying when using it for reprogramming!). Many thanks,
Mods please move to Tech 2 thread. My bad.
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EmpingSaab
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:37 pm |
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| Light Pressure Turbo |
Joined: Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:17 pm
Posts: 303
Location: Peterborough
Car Models: Saab 9000s
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Fixed! Turns out to be a bad VCI unit. Ordered a replacement clone VCI and it works fine now. Wish I'd have done this ages ago since been putting it with it for some time. Hope this is useful info for anyone else who gets the same problem.
As an aside, I bought this off a reseller on UKSaabs (I can provide his details if anyone is thinking of getting one{Edit: just checked - he either no longer resides on UKS or has changed his user name]) at a large premium over the internet prices since he said his were "carefully checked" to avoid the lottery of Chinese clones. Turns out it has never worked properly since new! So much for my trust......
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munchcorp
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:08 pm |
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Joined: Wed Apr 15, 2015 9:22 pm
Posts: 1280
Location: East Dorset
Car Models: 9-5 9-3SSx2 Sonett T16S 9000
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I would add here that I bought one, probably from the same seller and I had a problem when I got it with a faulty plug. He sent me a CANDI, cable and plug to try and couldn't have been more helpful. It was the plug in the end so the other bits got returned.
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EmpingSaab
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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 4:38 pm |
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| Light Pressure Turbo |
Joined: Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:17 pm
Posts: 303
Location: Peterborough
Car Models: Saab 9000s
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Goes to show how different experiences can be.. When I started asking about the issue, it all went very quiet after a while and I never got a proper response. It is possible that events elsewhere took over, so prepared to give benefit of the doubt..
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