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[Defcon5]

  I have had this too. I never thought it would be the scangauge causing the miss fire.  

It used to do that on my Cooper S, pretty scary when it first did it!

[christhegasman]

 

 

 

Sweet, will add that to my shopping list,   And I take it doesn't harm the car having it reading live data 24/7? 

Unless you have an NA where it can cause misfires because of ecu.

I have heard of this but not having any issues myself 😄

I did, horrible sudden loss of all power for a split second. I don't leave mine plugged in now.  

  I have had this too. I never thought it would be the scangauge causing the miss fire.  

It's allright to leave it plugged in on a turbo....how come you can't do the same on a NA.?

I do with no issues Think some of the early ecu may have had issues keeping up and resulted in an occasional missfire

[Mangham54]

 

 

 

Sweet, will add that to my shopping list,   And I take it doesn't harm the car having it reading live data 24/7? 

Unless you have an NA where it can cause misfires because of ecu.

I have heard of this but not having any issues myself 😄

I did, horrible sudden loss of all power for a split second. I don't leave mine plugged in now.  

  I have had this too. I never thought it would be the scangauge causing the miss fire.  

It's allright to leave it plugged in on a turbo....how come you can't do the same on a NA.?

I do with no issues Think some of the early ecu may have had issues keeping up and resulted in an occasional missfire

Any NA is vulnerable with the OEM ECU, as it cannot cope with all the data requests. Once it has done it once you won't want it to do it again. Mine coincidentally happened just before I had to replace an engine mount.

[Goosenka]

Make sure the data rate is set to low. Will still happen mind you.

[CocoPops]

Yep the NA has a different ECU that cannot cope with the frequency of data requests.

[christhegasman]

Yep the NA has a different ECU that cannot cope with the frequency of data requests.

I will just cross my fingers then but as a late NA that has had a new ecu and immobiliser at some time could mine be different? I used to have a scangauge for a year or so with no problems and None with my Chinese imposter either as yet Just hope for the best I guess

[scw02102]

Using mine with bno problems although is a turbo so I guessing the turbo ecu is fine

 

Just need to find a better way to keep it stuck to the dash, the cold weather means mine keeps falling off even with the decent double sided Velcro 

[christhegasman]

I ended up with mine below the sill pocket held on with blue tac 😀