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David Ferry - 23 Oct 2004 22:05 GMT

Thank you one and all for the help and advice you gave me about our
forthcoming trip to St Pete's. Fuel filters, bog roll and diesel. Got
that.

Next question. Even I can break into a Defender TD5 and the immobiliser
fills me with little confidence. Is there a bit, a small engine part, that
can be removed and that will render the car undriveable? In our old V8 I
would simply have removed the rotor arm each night (A car I much regret
selling by the way , if you own F250 KDV then tell me how she's going).
Without the rotor arm it ain't going nowhere!

Any equivalent bit an the TD5 motor?

Clues please!

D&P

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Hirsty's - 23 Oct 2004 22:15 GMT

> Next question. Even I can break into a Defender TD5 and the immobiliser
> fills me with little confidence. Is there a bit, a small engine part, that
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> Any equivalent bit an the TD5 motor?

Watch the resourceful Ruskies don't simply crane it onto a low loader or
somesuch.
The perceived wisdom in Africa is try to park near or in a police compound
(hoping they are'nt too corrupt).

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Mother - 24 Oct 2004 20:33 GMT

>Any equivalent bit an the TD5 motor?

Take the fuses out.

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Martin Lewis - 24 Oct 2004 22:26 GMT

> Even I can break into a Defender TD5 and the immobiliser fills me with
> little confidence.

What about the immobiliser doesn't fill you with confidence?

Unless you somehow 'unlock' the immobiliser without using the remote blip,
the engine can't be started (even if you bypass the starter motor relay feed
from the immobiliser) as the ECU hasn't had the correct code from the alarm
ECU. It will run for about 3 seconds, then die, and cut the fuel supply
until the ignition is switched off again.

Obviously there are ways round it by cloning the radio signal, but apart
from that I don't know how you would, unless you mimicked the alarm ECU?

But for extra peace-of-mind you could remove the fuses for or put an inline
switch of some sort in the ECU 12v ignition feed/fuel pump or fuel pump
relay feed/crankshaft sensor 12v feed.

Martin

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