RocksteadyEddie

I am based in kent, tunbridge wells. I just went to the Mechanex trade show in Sandown Park on Tuesday, and there was lots of handheld devices there, but no-one had anything than can do a P38 DT. They said they were all concentrating on new models and they are all busy as new models make the money. I got the impression they could not give a damn about older Land Rover. How heavy is the autoboss, I would love to try it - can it be sent? I would pay postage both ways. I want to take some pictures of what one can see on a P38 DT as it is easy on petrol models and maybe post it on the P38 forums so people can see what figres are shown. There is nothing wrong with mine but if I can see what data is available I might make the investment in a blackbox solution. Thanks Marty. Eddie

Agree with you on this, but I only have a P38a DT manual so no frills here, no climate control, no air flappers,no auto box, no sat nav, so really the only thing to go wrong is the EAS which I already made the cable for. The blackbox is good but a bit pricey for just looking at engine and EAS, hence why I wanted to try the open shareware route. If I had a 4.0 or 6 petrol with all toys, then I would go down this expensive route.

Little leaks introduce more air, making the gas leaner. So the lambda richens it all up thinking the engine is running lean. This of course makes it too rich which is why the car failed. Check manifold flanges, you have to take them off to do this. A big job. This May I had mine off, angle ground a nice clean join., and welded all the cracks I found. Job done. Good luck, it's a two day job ( unless you have a ramp)

Range Rover P38a 2.5 DT BOSCH EDC 1.3.1 with OBDII Diag plug. 1998 Model, based UK, 69.000 miles VIN not to hand I want to be able to interrogate my EDC 1.3.1 controller. A look at this site shows someone posted MWscan460.jpg which appears to be a propriety cable and interface. ( under 300tdi EDC 1.3.1 google search) I have bought an OBDII cable and EAS cable and software solution. The car bonnet sticker does not say OBDII compliant, so I know the engine and gearbox solution will only work with petrol P38a- if I were to get one) However my P38DT is pre-OBDII even though it has an OBDII plug. This is common to many vehicles in that they look OBDII even when they are not. I think the protocol is ISO9141 and it would appear that my OBD cable is wired to allow ISO9141. Given that faultmate and autologic and others can read this protocol I would like to be able to do the same if possible with software such as Scantool, OBDiag etc which are all shareware. However they all say they only do OBDII I don't want to be on Hawkeye or anything else handheld as I am a PC professional of 20 years abnd don;t wawnt to go down thehandheld route. So- Anyone know how to read engine data and temps etc on a P38 DT 1998 era thanks I am happy to chop my cable if required and change pins if required, or place an interface box in the middle, just as long as I can read the figures on a PC screen Thanks anyone PS I did also find ve169 program which appears to be very full and even has choices for ISO9141 and old Land Rover CAN but it does not work - see screenprint attached. Although it says ISO-9141-2 I know this is backwards compatible so it should work.