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Got a nice quick email reply from Dean as below;

Thanks for your email.

Apologies there isn't much information on the website yet - we've actually
added the products today. The launch had been delayed by some other
projects, but the software is now available.

The software will work fine on your car and will read and clear the engine
fault codes - allowing you to turn off your Check Engine light. The software
provides this on most 1999-2004 petrol and diesel Alfa and Fiat cars with
the 16-pin diagnostic socket (yours will have the 16-pin socket).
The software is £21.95 (inc) and will run with an ELM327 interface. We stock
these interfaces at £49.94 (inc) if you don't already have one.

The details on the website are a little limited at this time, but I am happy
to answer any queries you may have. The product links can be found here:

Software:
http://www.gendan.co.uk/product_ITALCHECK.html
Interface:
http://www.gendan.co.uk/product_ELM327.html

If you click on the interface, when you add to basket you get an option of which software you'd like with it. Click italiacheck and its £69.99 inc VAT and delivery.
If buy seperately its a couple of £ more.

Hope this helps peeps
Thanks Davren for the heads up, any feedback on the software?

Neil
 
Davren said:
@ Philip...... Just for your information Philip, the Gendan ELM327 interface and ItaliaCheck software already does this for the engine ECU.

This is what it showed for mine:

ECU Hardware Number Fiat.............. 55185364
ECU Hardware Number Bosch........... 0 281 010 337
Additional Coding Information........... 0
ECU Software Number.................... 1037366535
Software Version Number................ 41025
Exhaust Regulation Approval Number. 19242
Engine Code................................ -2.045444e+9
Repair Shop Code.......................... BOSCH078
Programming Date.......................... 20020719

Dave.
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Dave,

I purchased a copy of the ItaliaCheck software software from Gendan not really hoping for much but to try and confirm that the ECU identification data that I have obtained from my car ECU is the same as what the Gendan software returns. Unfortunately the Gendan software does not display any ECU identification data, there only seems to be 1 button to read back fault codes.

Incidentally the information you posted above does not seem to match the fiat specification :rolleyes:

ECU Identification specification

ECU_Identification_Info.gif
 
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@... Philip.

In the ItaliaCheck settings tab there's "Hold Connection" and "Reset Connection". I don't remember which one it was but if I selected "Reset Connection" then read the codes, it would show the ECU information and codes (if any) but wouldn't clear codes. If I selected "Hold Connection" it didn't show the ECU information but would clear codes or v.v.

The information available in your list looks the same as in the Gendan list to me, or am I missing something?

Unrelated I suspect but mine doesn't "Auto Detect" the port, I always have to manually select Port 2 before reading codes. I suspect this is something to do with my old ToughBook though. Dean at Gendan says he's working on a fix for this.

Dave.
 
Davren said:
@... Philip.

In the ItaliaCheck settings tab there's "Hold Connection" and "Reset Connection". I don't remember which one it was but if I selected "Reset Connection" then read the codes, it would show the ECU information and codes (if any) but wouldn't clear codes. If I selected "Hold Connection" it didn't show the ECU information but would clear codes or v.v.

The information available in your list looks the same as in the Gendan list to me, or am I missing something?

Unrelated I suspect but mine doesn't "Auto Detect" the port, I always have to manually select Port 2 before reading codes. I suspect this is something to do with my old ToughBook though. Dean at Gendan says he's working on a fix for this.

Dave.
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Dave,

I'll give your suggestion a try tomorrow. The ECU identification does not contain a item called repairs shop code, however I suppose this could actually be Tester Code but then it would be two bytes too short, the software version seems to be 1 byte short than it should, the software version seems to be too long. Once I've finished the coding to read the ECU identification I'll send you a test version to see what information it returns and we'll compare it to the previously posted ECU identification.
 
PhilipB said:
I purchased a copy of the ItaliaCheck software software from Gendan not really hoping for much but to try and confirm that the ECU identification data that I have obtained from my car ECU is the same as what the Gendan software returns. Unfortunately the Gendan software does not display any ECU identification data, there only seems to be 1 button to read back fault codes.
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Have you checked "ItalChk.log" which I think is stored in the root directory?
 
Argonought said:
Have you checked "ItalChk.log" which I think is stored in the root directory?
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Thanks for that Argonought I found the file located in My Documents. I suspect the ItaliaCheck software is using the EOBD J1979 specification where as I am emulating Fiat Examiner and starting a diagnostic session, the raw communication data for the ECU identification was in the log file but I could not get the software to display it.

More surprisingly, when I ran the IaliaCheck software it indicated that there was a pending fault (P0136) on my car, so I decided to run EngineCheck to check the actual readings from the oxygen sensor and EngineCheck indicated there were no fault (see pictures below)





BTW has the image I posted yesterday been removed as its no longer in my gallery and the image is no longer displayed in my previous post :confused:
 
PhilipB said:
More surprisingly, when I ran the IaliaCheck software it indicated that there was a pending fault (P0136) on my car, so I decided to run EngineCheck to check the actual readings from the oxygen sensor and EngineCheck indicated there were no fault.
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That does seem odd although I've yet to see a pending fault code and I'm not sure I know what that is :confused:

BTW has the image I posted yesterday been removed as its no longer in my gallery and the image is no longer displayed in my previous post :confused:
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Seems OK to me.

What was your original post?
 
PhilipB said:
Hi Argonought,

My post with the missing picture is post number 29, it was an extract of a fiat specification for ECU information.
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Philip, I can see the link but the gif image has gone. (not me :confused:)

If you have an external link then I can amend or just enter again as a link and then I'll clean up :)
 
I dont know if im misreading something here but my two penneth worth.

If the data doesnt add up correctly when retrieving the ECU model, tester ID etc, it might be the way Italiacheck is reading the data.

You can issue commands for each part of the data seperately or you can recieve it in one big chunk. With my ELM327 when the data is read in one big chunk it quite often misses the last few bytes and then the ELM loses the connection.

I think you can issue a 01 80 for everything, or 01 81 thru 89 or something. Its all in that Fiat kwp2000 document thats around.

Could this be the issue here perhaps?

From other people I have spoken on another forum to Italiacheck talks to pre-obd cars by doing a ecu init at 16h rather than 33h. That is the main difference.

Dan
 
danhans115 said:
I dont know if im misreading something here but my two penneth worth.

If the data doesnt add up correctly when retrieving the ECU model, tester ID etc, it might be the way Italiacheck is reading the data.

You can issue commands for each part of the data seperately or you can recieve it in one big chunk. With my ELM327 when the data is read in one big chunk it quite often misses the last few bytes and then the ELM loses the connection.

I think you can issue a 01 80 for everything, or 01 81 thru 89 or something. Its all in that Fiat kwp2000 document thats around.

Could this be the issue here perhaps?

From other people I have spoken on another forum to Italiacheck talks to pre-obd cars by doing a ecu init at 16h rather than 33h. That is the main difference.

Dan
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Hi Dan,

I'm doing some further investigation into what the Italiacheck software is doing, I will monitor the serial communications to determine what its actually doing and when I've worked it out I'll post back here.
 
danhans115 said:
I dont know if im misreading something here but my two penneth worth.

If the data doesnt add up correctly when retrieving the ECU model, tester ID etc, it might be the way Italiacheck is reading the data.

You can issue commands for each part of the data seperately or you can recieve it in one big chunk. With my ELM327 when the data is read in one big chunk it quite often misses the last few bytes and then the ELM loses the connection.

I think you can issue a 01 80 for everything, or 01 81 thru 89 or something. Its all in that Fiat kwp2000 document thats around.

Could this be the issue here perhaps?

From other people I have spoken on another forum to Italiacheck talks to pre-obd cars by doing a ecu init at 16h rather than 33h. That is the main difference.

Dan
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Hi Dan,

I have now both logged the communications between ItaliaCheck and had email contact with Dean from Gendan. ItaliaCheck communicates directly with the ECU using protocol ISO 14230-4 KWP, where as EngineCheck uses the EOBD protocol. Dean was very helpful, he suggested that the fault indicated by the ItaliaCheck software might be an issue thats been monitored by the ECU and not yet considered as a fault and so the car is effectively hiding the stored fault code.
 
PhilipB said:
Hi John,

It seems you interface does not support variable length messages, this in theory means that it will be able to send diagnostic messages that are always 8 bytes long but not shorter messages but in reality will probably mean your interface will not work with the software without an updated chip.
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Now aquired a Gendan Elm 327 1.3a interface so will be
trying both interface and your software shortly. (y)

All Gendan units are now being shipped with the newer
1.3a chip.

Regards John
 
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