T4 / Testbook Diagnostic CDs
maso...@yahoo.com
T4 / Testbook Diagnostic CDs
please let me know
Thanks
Pat
Derek
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http://www.rangerovers.net/repairdetails/scanners.html
but $250 is better than £2k or Rovacom
http://www.rovacomlite.com/navigate.php?to=costsamples
Derek
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Pat
AndyC the WB
masottaus> I can't believe there's no one out there having this
masottaus> stuff... Pat
Even if you have the CDs, you need specialist hardware for it to
communicate with the car. It's not just a case of throwing an RS-232
to OBD-II adaptor on the serial port.
Andy
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"My brother-in-law, the bar owner."
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Pat
Nigel Hewitt
> I know that Andy, I just want the CDs
Yeah. Me too.
The hardware is the easy bit.
I must admit I was surprised that RAVE is bootlegged
so widely and yet never Testbook.
nigelH
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ch...@chrisallmark.com
The hardware is NOT the easy bit. Getting the software to run is
trivial & copies turn up now and then.
Have a look at this MG forum for more info:
http://forums.mg-rover.org/archive/index.php/t-5362.html
Cheers,
Chris.
rads
Yeah Nigel, he's right.
Bet you cant make it work.
<Fx> Wanders off, whistling.
;-)
David
Nigel Hewitt
> On 22 Jan 2007 07:38:24 -0800, ch...@chrisallmark.com wrote:
>> Nigel Hewitt wrote:
>>> maso...@yahoo.com <maso...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I know that Andy, I just want the CDs
>>>
>>> Yeah. Me too.
>>> The hardware is the easy bit.
>>>
>>> I must admit I was surprised that RAVE is bootlegged
>>> so widely and yet never Testbook.
>>
>> trivial & copies turn up now and then.
>>
>> Have a look at this MG forum for more info:
>>
>> http://forums.mg-rover.org/archive/index.php/t-5362.html
>>
>
> Bet you cant make it work.
>
> <Fx> Wanders off, whistling.
>
> ;-)
According to the link it's Ethernet. I though there would be something
nasty and proprietary there but just having to subvert the stack on an
Ethernet controller...
We shall see. The real problem is time. I don't have any.
nigelH
ksale...@stisted.freeserve.co.uk
Hi Troops I have repaired a T1 and recently bought a T4. recreating the
T4 hardware is not a practical option there is a lot of electronics in
there as it is not just an obd interface it incorporates measuring
tools for external and internal use. External for voltage and
resistance checks ega etc and internal for the cable idents built in to
each lead.
It took me months to track down the OS and RDS CD for the T1 as when
the T1-T3 were designed they used dedicated PC and custom hardware so
the OS and RDS were all on one CD but it was a good exercise!
T4 introduced a standard Laptop running Win98 and later XP and a
dedicated separate interface - connected via Ethernet to PC and then
standard Testbook cables to the car.
I use XP on my T4 as you can keep better control over RDS which takes
over as a shell when running. I may eventually set mine up on two
partitions and dual boot it so I can Run RDS 6 for Landrover and RDS
5.06 for MGR Cars although primarily I bought mine for car support
I have a few Landrover leads and data CDs but haven't used them yet.
There is a guy on Ebay that sell the RDS CD for around £99 if you
fancy having a play with it
Rovacom offers better functionality to a degree it seems to be able to
read and change SA GM and VN codes on the fly which is not easy on
Testbook. I find Testbook too idiot proof for my liking unfortunately
Rovacom works out damn expensive if you want to be able to do
everything on a particular vehicle as each ECU requires a seperate cost
software module whereas with Testbook everything is on one CD.
Screen dumps of my Testbook here
http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=1714&highlight=testbook