Recently, sometimes when she goes over speed bumps, or turns sharp left, the Bermuda Triangle lights up followed by the klaxon of doom, the gearbox selects any gear it wants and the whole thing grinds to a halt. Garages are flummoxed, which is not in itself unusual, but does leave us adrift.
As she is a disabled person I can’t let her out in a car that is not reliable.
Initially I thought that the gearbox module would be the likely candidate, as it’s cleverly positioned by the left front wheel to catch as much sludge as possible before the water and grit can escape down the drainholes.
After a toasting and cleaning nothing changed, so I had to look further.
My search lead me to Amazon, and the eager purchase of a do all diagbox thingy, that apparently wakes you up with a cup of tea before it goes off to fix your car for you. Can’t wait!!
Well, wait I did, and wait some more, and waited till just after eternity. Finally I got upto version 7.57. That seemed long enough so I pulled the plug so I could insert the plug.
Everything dawdled into life at a suitably sedentary pace. This was going to be a piece of cake.
Modules,
BSI, no dialogue.
Main ECU EDC16C34.
ABS ABS81
Gearbox BVMP.
Everything else, no dialogue
WTF!!
There was this little diagram that showed 2 can systems, C_Can from BSI to ABS to Gearbox to Main all good.
Another, B-Can, also from BSI, that showed a break between airbags and Main. All those other ‘modules’ are greyed out.
But the faults register on the C-Can not the B-Can
Now, the wiring diagram, Sadre I think it said it was, is very poor for the Bipper, and only shows a few bits. Now I know, thanks to Marc, that the Bipper is not like all the other proper Peugeots. Anyway, it shows a picture of the diagnostic socket that has C-Can on pins 6 and 14 and B-Can on pins 1 and 9.
Out with the osmelloscope and ‘no information’ passing on pin 1.
Yippee, cracked it.
Not so fast, it seems it only fires up when something is activated, like me squirming on the seat setting of the seatbelt light.
The difficulty for me is that it is an intermittent fault, which cancels out a permanent break in the wiring like the Diagbox shows. Or maybe not if B-Can is a true 2 wire Canbus, but then it would show the other modules unless both wires are broken. Hmmm.
Dear long suffering readers what am I to make of this, where do I turn now? Is this Peugeot in the history of all saintly things the only one that has duff signal to scanner wiring? Are these ‘spammer scanners’ any good? I don’t mind doing some detecting but I need something that works dependably.
It seems the first mistake I’ve made is assumed that test equipment has been tested. I realise, also, there is an s1279 adapter needed, and I do have that adapter as well. Is that what's wrong?
Oh, before I lose your interest completely I found a little wheeze where with a program from AOMEI(free version) you can put a bootable copy of any version of windows on a usb stick to fire up your lappy and install Diagbox on that. You will need a licenced key for the windows, and change the boot order in bios, but beats vm for speed. Plus, it leaves your puter unfrigged. It’s called ‘Windows to Go’. Now I can have different car scanners on different USB flash drives to use the same lappy…..result.
Sorry if you all already knew that
If anybody can point me in the right direction I will be eternally grateful.
Jimmy.
What about winter starts though, IDI's don't like the cold especially on veg oil? Simples, the Russians have got by lighting fires under the sump/holding a burning rag to the intake for decades, I'm sure it's a skill I could master 
