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Paddy - 30 Nov 2003 22:03 GMT

Does anyone known if or how you can disable the immobiliser on a mini (1997
mini cooper sport) using the EKA code like you can on other rovers? On my
rover 400, which uses the same type of key fob you insert the key in the
door
and open and close it in a sequence and the number of times to be the same
as the code you are supplied. My mini came with such a code but obviously
has no central locking. In the handbook there is no option other than visit
you Rover dealer.

Regards

Pad

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The Muffin Man - 01 Dec 2003 22:01 GMT

How do you visit the rover dealer in a car that is immobilised?

Answers on a postcard to the usual address...

The Muffin Man

> Does anyone known if or how you can disable the immobiliser on a mini (1997
> mini cooper sport) using the EKA code like you can on other rovers? On my
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Paddy - 01 Dec 2003 23:00 GMT

That's true. But they have a vast number of cars they can visit your home
in, for a vast amount of cash. The dealer I spoke to was just not that
responsive. Calling them on the Saturday, the service department said they
could not fit me in till the following Thursday. It is just not that good is
it? Especially for something like this. Lucky I don't use the mini as my
everyday car.

Anyway. The ECU is the same as the other Rovers of the period and has the
facility to interface with central locking, like the Wood and pickett or
other central locking kits available. If one of these was fitted would we
then be able to disarm the immobiliser the doors with the key using the
code? Just a thought, not looked into it bbut it would be good to have a
backup plan as these early Rover remotes are, by all accounts not that
reliable.

I am going to buy 2 new remotes and have them programmed independantly of
Rover. (sadly).

P.

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Dan Baker - 03 Dec 2003 13:17 GMT

> That's true. But they have a vast number of cars they can visit your home
> in, for a vast amount of cash. The dealer I spoke to was just not that
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Paddy,
Not sure exactly of the way in which the Rover ECU hooks up to the
central locking, but in MOST central locking systems, the locks are
both motors and switches (on the front door of a 4-door car, anyway).
When you lock or unlock a door using the key, it triggers a switch
which usually grounds one of the wires going to the lock mechanism(one
for lock, one for unlock) This then triggers the other doors to do the
same. The ECU would presumably be hooked up to these two trigger
wires, which is how it knows when the key is being turned in the lock.
If you could find out the colour code or the pins of these two wires
on the ecu, then you could use a short piece of wire to ground them in
the sequence like you would with locking/unlocking the doors.

Sorry if I didn't explain that very well. It all makes sense in my
head!

Dan

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