Our vehicle history
Like many of us, we’ve been invloved with cars quite some time. Here’s our list of records (aka Dougies Car Collection) which serves as a history were we come from: (just click on the link)
Correcting the Lotus Elise S1 STACK Coolant Temp Design Fault!
EVERY Lotus Elise S1 has the same design fault when it comes to the STACK coolant temp display. All owners know that the displayed value isn’t reliable as it seems to randomly jump from one value to another, causing false alarms in the face of the driver. Only few know why this happens, so we…
Making a TD5 MSB EU2 ECU programmable!
Many Defender TD5 Owners like the idea having their engine modified or tuned, however this is limited to the P15 Engines with the famous EU3 TD5 ECUs. Those ECUs can easily be identified by the Type number starting with a NNN prefix.These ECUs are equipped with a flash memory chip which can be re-programmed with…
Replacing a faulty Range Rover Sport BCM
One of the significant problems of modern cars is the amount of electronic control units which are depending on each other in one or multiple ways. Failiure of a single unit can ground the car reliably, where the dealer will ask you thousands of $ getting it fixed. In this case we were facing a…
Coverting a TD5 Auto ECU to Manual
As the availability for TD5 ECUs seems to get lower over time, it might be good to know you can convert a TD5 Automatic ECU form a Discovery into a Manual one for a Defender. However, some small issues need to be taken care of.The Auto ECU from the Disco has a CAN Bus Chip…