Beiträge von bigi

  • DAB Audio degrade and low volume

    I have FL MCA and DAB installed in my preFL Mk4. I know people have problems with DAB volume when CD multichanger is connected.

    So i tried myself - and it is true - it sounds awful!

    Big drop in volume and sound quality decreases a lot - almost like high pass Filter, very dull sound.

    Someone i know has tried to switch L+/R+ only with relay but unless you disconnect L-/R- as well the problem remains.

    Anyone worked out a fix for this? I suspect impedance mismatch but not sure.

    I know of fix using 4 pole relay to disconnect audio, controlled by CD motor - but this is a poor solution and should not be needed!

  • Rückfahrkamera, Teile und Verlegung

    @Go4IT i must make some things clear to you!

    I am NOT a dealer. I help people who can not install Conversmod themselves. I have a full time job, not in car industry, but IT industry:)

    There are about 6 in the UK who are doing this for Ford owners in the UK. The only money we make is when someone comes to us to install the Conversmod. They get charged £ 20-30 once for this; people normally with me about 2 hours while i help you with other problems as well! I do not make any money from the mod. I do this because I wanted to help people who struggled talking to developers.

    I do not control what Conversmod sell, I only know how to build a gateway box - not even how to write code; I was going to help with building in UK because of problems people were having - but now a new version i being made to replace.

    This is for my own own car - NOT to sell! This is my own project because i want to understand CAN and how this works to make other FL parts talk to PreFL too. If it works I can share with others - like apollogary who asked about this some time ago - and it is not for profit.

    I am very active on Talkford forum - if you look at my comments in conversmod threads - and thus the people i have helped with problems.

    I am not very active on this because I am from England and so it is difficult to write what i mean on here (this message has taken 30 minutes!)

    I hope you understand what i am saying :)

    If you want to talk to me, what is PM better than public forum?

  • Rückfahrkamera, Teile und Verlegung

    I have now fitted MCA plus to PreFL Mondeo (2009). I also fit FL Parking module - which makes MCA mute when parking sensors on.

    I have subloom for camera modules and all cables. when connected and enabled in CCC the camera works, and distance shows on screen, but lines do not bend - very annoying!

    @Go4IT have you progressed with gateway yet? I would be happy to help with testing. I have some CAN gateway devices that I build for Conversmod in the UK so spares to play around with:)

  • DAB module dead after update

    The UCDS adapter does have three interfaces from what I have been told:

    HS-CAN: 6 & 14

    MS-CAN: 3 & 11

    MM-CAN: 1 & 8

    I was connected to MS-CAN, with a 120R resistor across High and Low and repeated attempts forcing MM-CAN failed to get a response. I am not 100% sure that i rememebered to select MM-CAN in upgrade wizard the last time it worked!

    From other info I have been told, it does not matter which bus pins you are connected to on the bench MS or MM because apparently the Mk4 has 125kbit bus speed on both; UCDS is told what speed to use when you select the car type. - so technically it should work on either bus.

  • DAB module dead after update

    thats is incredibly interesting info go4fit - wish i knew half of what you do....!

    I've had an interesting evening myself - after speaking to Alexey (Conversmod), he suggested a direct connection to MM-CAN on UCDS adapter and power the module on the bench to try force flash - and be patient as timing is everything.

    With this in mind i tried about 20-30 times, forcing through MM-CAN - ws just about to give up when it suddenly caught and the SBL loaded. interestingly, it flashed the module and verified it in under a minute.

    Now installed and working again :)

  • DAB module dead after update

    So - I am the friend who managed to brick the DAB module!

    I tried using UCDS and Upgrade Wizard to update DABM from AF to AH - it erased successfully and started flashing VERY slowly. got to 20% and failed.

    Subsequent attempts have failed and DAB module is not even detected in module scan now. i have tried force flash through upgrade wizard, and by loading the SBL and update files into the VBF loader to force program, each time is reports back that force Programming request failed.

    I think my mistake at the start (apart from updating the module!) is that i did not select to flash via MM-CAN - and when you load the vbf files into vbf loader in UCDS it reports that they operate on the MS-CAN bus, not the MM-CAN bus - something that entered my mind when it was crawling through the flash process! I have since tried to flash in forced MM-CAN mode and through normal MS-CAN mode, but with no success. interestingly when i attempted a forced flash without selecting MM-CAN, i got a DTC from the ACM simply saying "MS-Can bus" - which cleared and didn't come back.

    So...it seems you are correct, the FBL is not in place and therefore i cannot get the SBL to load to try and get the software back on there. So the next question is - is there a way to push the Primary bootloader back onto it?