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can one of you highly knowledgeable technicians have a look at my DIS-LEXIA at the CX/M/XANT Ralley this weekend at some point,

preferably before the pickled heads whoooops i mean eggs :shock: :twisted: :lol: :wink:
Regards, malcolm.

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yes please do, as yours is the nearest to me Malcolm :)
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Which model Malcolm? The old one?

What's wrong with it?
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naaa Jim hunny

its the DIS LEXIA 3 which seems to me to never have worked properly since purchase,
even with itt being installed on a clean laptop and fresh installation of XP

it reads faults then dosent do anything when click on any of the faults listed as my DIS LEXIA 2 used to
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You can compare it with others at the Rally and see if they do the same sort of things Malcolm.

I find mine is virtually perfect but even though, I still prefer my ELIT on the MK1 Xantias and XMs.

Seems to me the older the car the worse Lexia 3 is. The newer the better... My main observations is mine has great difficulty in reading Xantia Climate ECUs and locks up after doing a 4HP20 reinitialisation... It locks up somewhere else but I can't recall where now.

I do know on say a C5 and a Picasso it is absolutely as good as gold...

Oddly, it does a MK1.5 XM well but I have a sneaky suspicion it finds spurious faults in the Engine and ABS ECUs that the ELIT doesn't.
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mine goes into things just as far on C5's and Pisssscasssooos as it does on the likes of XANT's
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is it fixed Malcolm? :)
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We had a go on my XM with the 30 pin connector and we could get into the detailed fault information on the faults that had it available. As far as I know, he didn't get around to trying it on a Xant.
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as Kev said we used his XM as a guinea pig with the 30 pin plug, and it performed as it should,

whether this was something Kev had altered in the start up???? or not its all a mist-icl science to me :? :oops: :lol: :roll: :wink:
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Malc, I'll have a gander at it when I come over on Thursday to fix my estate's electrics. I could have done a comparison with mine, if the laptop had not got roasted :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: , along with quite a few of the leads! :shock:

John, I should have another Lexia [-o< [-o< soon, so I'll be a bit nearer, if you are still living on the borders.

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thanks Rich.. just wouldnt mind putting it back on C5 for a couple of things..
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Steering angle sensor fault? Radio aerial fault?

Those two are hard coded in at the factory, I reckon. Just like the cat, you boot them out and they come right back at you.
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nah just want the crusie working and maybe somehow check the ride height is changing at speed..

also I have no sidelights, not sure lexia can help with that, but have not had time to check bulbs etc..
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addo wrote:Just like the cat, you boot them out and they come right back at you.
I had that problem with a woman once :evil:
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