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Ford Focus 1.4 ZETEC - possibly ECU problem?

I don't own a car with an immobilizer in it, but as I understand how they work, there is a code that must be entered, somewhere, to get the car to start if the battery was disconnected or gone flat. T …
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How does the car's ECU detect a misfire?

This comes directly from this web site: http://www.obdii.com/articles/Onboard_Diagnostics_Demystified.html What it says, is that early OBD-II systems could not detect misfires, but since then a few …
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Is there a way to use a PC as an ECU for testing CANBUS Sniffer devices?

Sadly you are not going to be able to do what you want simply connecting CAN-H and CAN-L to a serial port. Here is a pointer to the physical interface layer for CANBUS. CANBUS Physical layer ISO 1189 …
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Keep Alive Memory (KAM)

From what I have seen, "Keep Alive Memory" can be cleared by removing power from the car by disconnecting the battery. ROM is "Read Only Memory" and is permanent at the chip level. Yes there are vario …
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