Pcm No Vin

[Tree Monkey]

Trying to get my bitch tuned by my mate at GODZILLA MOTORSPORT with the VCM suite but he is having a little problem cos apparently my PCM(computer) has no vin number in it. It has been flashed via a cappa box and we returned it back to factory tune but still no go.Thoughts????

[ravenhard]

I was just at a workshop looking at my car thru the VCM suite and the tuner simply typed the VIN number in.

[millers]

that's a seperate issue ravenhard. VCM Suite does not auto detect the VIN on the BA Falcons so you need to type it in.

I have the same issue as Tree Monkey (although I havent tried a flash tuner). I have spoken to my local dealer and was told the BA/BF PCM is not meant to have a VIN programmed in it, but that guy also told me I can plug in any other BA ecu and it will work straight up so I doubt him a little.

HP Tuners think they have some ideas for licencing these PCMs, but they arent really interested in doing it because there are only a small number effected so its not really worth thier effort.

if the xcal box works your probably better off going with that.

[Tree Monkey]

The problem is that ALL the tuners in my area SUCK, really they all talk it up about how good they are but I don't know of any, that I haven't herd a complaint about. The only one I haven't herd bad things about are Hi torque but they are a little further south . My mate that owns GODZILLA is doing the tuning for free as a r&d thing he is looking at working on the fords and apparently VCM are trying to fix this problem. I was thinking of taking it to ford and seeing if they can put a vin in to the pcm or something.

Edited 02/06/09 04:50 AM by Tree Monkey

[millers]

good luck with ford. they pretty much called me an idiot and said there isnt meant to be a vin on the ba/bf, then charged me $120 and told me to go away.

maybe have a chat to them first and see if they are going to be useful at all. im not sure if a full paramater reset (like they do when you swap ecu) will write the vin in or not. might be worth a try if you get someone willing to have a go at it.

[neo]

I have a ba and my Vin shows up fine. millers maybe you have a dud

[bentles]

try a parameter reset on the pcm?

also ive heard vcm suite just doesnt work on some cars..... (quoted by chris and theo at bluepower)

didnt work on mine (early xr6t 4sp pcm in a ba futura turbo)

[millers]

only cars I have seen it not work on are ones with corrupt VIN information in the PCM. I have seen this with 2 cars now with this issue and 1 other car that gave an invalid VIN/OS Pair error which was fixed by sending the tune file to HP Tuners to be added to the next release.

Both the cars I have seen with corrupt VIN seem to have been caused by my local Ford dealer flashing them. The latest one was fine before it went in for some work and came back with a corrupt VIN after ford flashed on the stock tune with latest updates. Mine has also been flashed by this dealer before I got it and the VIN is corrupt

[IH8TOADS]

I also know of this happening with a early BA auto recently. Ford tried a few things but in the end were no help to the cars owner. It was tuned with SCT in the end.

[millers]

the latest one was an 03 ba auto and mine is an 05 ba2 manual.

I know ford can fix it, they just either wont or dont know they can do it. I have seen screen shots of the IDS software that shows where the VIN can be set. unfortuantly my local dealer wont even let me speak to the guys that work on the cars, let alone give me access to their software so I can fix it myself