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| excossack Member Since: 22 Feb 2012 Location: North West Posts: 5874   
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Maybe depending on the age does the ECU look likes it been opened and resealed with sealant?
Or the turbo has extra turns/threads showing on the pushrod? 1999 Defender TD5 110 Regards John M0VAZ Econet Station 48 no clock |
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8th Oct 2019 4:35pm |
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| BaronDefenders Member Since: 28 Jun 2019 Location: London/Cotswolds Posts: 903 
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I suppose you could get one of these GPS apps that calculates your 0-60mph time? If it’s noticeably below what a stock Td5 is capable of, then yours will have some form of remap! Charlie
1949 Series 1 80 (SOLD) 2002 Td5 90 (SOLD) 2008 Freelander 2 (SOLD) 1958 Series 2 88 Pastel Green (2019 LR Legends Best Restored) 1983 V8 110 Limestone (Previously owned by Tom Sheppard MBE) 2004 Td5 90 Santorini Black (Td5INSIDE Powered & Rebuilt by CSK) 2012 Puma 110 Zermatt Silver (Overlanding Build) Instagram: @BaronDefenders |
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8th Oct 2019 4:38pm |
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| Zed Member Since: 07 Oct 2017 Location: In the woods Posts: 3345 
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Get in touch with Jose @ Inside and ask him if he remapped it.
If not then ask him to and then it will really fly! |
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8th Oct 2019 4:57pm |
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| diesel_jim Member Since: 13 Oct 2008 Location: hiding Posts: 6112 
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You could plug in a nanocom or other ECU reader, and see what the file map name is,
Chances are if it's been re-mapped then the new programmer would have called it something else other than "sthle022-sttlp010.map" (this is one of the ones for a defender) But.. they could have kept the name a factory name to make it harder to trace if it was mapped when under LR's warranty, so a dealer couldn't tell... |
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8th Oct 2019 6:27pm |
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| AJC Member Since: 30 Nov 2015 Location: Lancashire Posts: 1364
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Thanks chaps, I did think about looking at it to see if seal had been broken.
a friend has a nanocom so i'll try that and see if it helps |
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9th Oct 2019 5:52am |
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| MadTom Member Since: 10 Sep 2013 Location: Olomouc Posts: 636  
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In older typ engine ECUs marked MSBxxxxxx (x is a number) the remap was only possible by exchange the memory chip inside. Mostly the new chip is in a socket. The ECU had to be opened for remap.
Newer ECUs marked NNNxxxxxx (like NNN00120) can be remaped with diagnostics equipment. You can download the map from ECU with Nanocom and compare the file with original map file. Or ask someone for this comparsion. Often remap file in ECU is encrypted, standard file is not encrypted. It is possible do decrypt these files. "Drobek" = The Small One - Discovery 2, "Blufínek" = The Blue Thing - Defender 130, and for me at least Ford Mondeo  |
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9th Oct 2019 8:29am |
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| Waka56 Member Since: 08 Nov 2023 Location: Hamburg Posts: 166 
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I know that this thread is old, but since I have the same question, I bring it up.
To download the map, you need a nanocom or forscan can do it also? I wanna find out if my EGR as been mapped out before I replace it. G'day Y'all Making my Defender great again. (Or trying to at least xD) |
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