T4 / Testbook Diagnostic CDs

sadly the best links don't work

I can't believe there's no one out there having this stuff...

Pat

masottaus> I can't believe there's no one out there having this masottaus> stuff... Pat

Even if you have the CDs, you need specialist hardware for it to communicate with the car. It's not just a case of throwing an RS-232 to OBD-II adaptor on the serial port.

Andy

I know that Andy, I just want the CDs

Pat

Yeah. Me too. The hardware is the easy bit.

I must admit I was surprised that RAVE is bootlegged so widely and yet never Testbook.

nigelH

The hardware is NOT the easy bit. Getting the software to run is trivial & copies turn up now and then.

Have a look at this MG forum for more info:

Yeah Nigel, he's right.

Bet you cant make it work.

Wanders off, whistling.

;-)

David

According to the link it's Ethernet. I though there would be something nasty and proprietary there but just having to subvert the stack on an Ethernet controller...

We shall see. The real problem is time. I don't have any.

nigelH

Hi Troops I have repaired a T1 and recently bought a T4. recreating the T4 hardware is not a practical option there is a lot of electronics in there as it is not just an obd interface it incorporates measuring tools for external and internal use. External for voltage and resistance checks ega etc and internal for the cable idents built in to each lead.

It took me months to track down the OS and RDS CD for the T1 as when the T1-T3 were designed they used dedicated PC and custom hardware so the OS and RDS were all on one CD but it was a good exercise!

T4 introduced a standard Laptop running Win98 and later XP and a dedicated separate interface - connected via Ethernet to PC and then standard Testbook cables to the car.

I use XP on my T4 as you can keep better control over RDS which takes over as a shell when running. I may eventually set mine up on two partitions and dual boot it so I can Run RDS 6 for Landrover and RDS

I have a few Landrover leads and data CDs but haven't used them yet.

There is a guy on Ebay that sell the RDS CD for around =A399 if you fancy having a play with it

Rovacom offers better functionality to a degree it seems to be able to read and change SA GM and VN codes on the fly which is not easy on Testbook. I find Testbook too idiot proof for my liking unfortunately Rovacom works out damn expensive if you want to be able to do everything on a particular vehicle as each ECU requires a seperate cost software module whereas with Testbook everything is on one CD.

Screen dumps of my Testbook here