Hi All New Member Here

[eckybell]

hi all i have a 2003 1.4 c3 petrol lx model stopped running one day sent it to a  garage (silly me ) he said he changed ecu and bsi now my car runs but a lot of my other parts don`t work like my electric windows have stopped working my abs light is on I don`t have abs my radio not working wothout it beeping every 10 seconds  can anybody help me i dont know what he has done to my car worst bit is it a friend so don`t really want to fall out with him thanks for any help 

[Rookie2]

Welcome to the forum, it sounds to me like whoever changed the ECU and BSI did not exactly match them up with the cars original equipment or he did not initialise the ECU correctly.

Friend or not, the obvious solution would be to take it back to the guy and ask him to put it right, unless of course he did not have the Lexia to initialise the ECU anyway and he was just lucky enough to find a second hand one that fired the car up.

 

Need more infor from the guy who did the job.

 

Cheers

[paul.h]

On Citroens the radio is coded to the ecu as a theft prevention measure. Your existing radio will need coding to the replacement ecu so it will work properly or obtain the radio from the car that the ecu came from. I think you will also be using the keys from the donor car so the imobiliser works.

 

As Rookie2 has said, you need a diagnostic using a Lexia to configure the ecu to match your car and get the abs and electric windows to work and to match your radio to it. I suspect the ecu/bsi have come from a more basic C3 than yours which might also mean the bsi will not be able to handle the abs/electric windows even if it is configured.

 

If the abs can not be got to work, you will need to tell your insurance company since a safety feature on which they have based the insurance does not work.

 

Something else you may have noticed, the car mileage may have changed since the car will adopt the higher of the speedo or bsi when one is changed. If so you will need to explain this to your insurance company if it takes you over your annual mileage limit.

 

So if this does not go well, then some friend.

[Seagull36]

my horn keeps going off every so often for about 30 seconds until i could get key in the ignition and engine started, even then its still blaring. If I leave it without starting it up it beeps a single beep every minute.It's had a new battery I've tried the bsi reset, but nothing's changed, also tried a battery drain test and only uses 10milli amps. Anyone came across this before?

[Seagull36]

Sorry forgot to mention its a berlingo 1.6 hdi 2012 plate with 32k on clock

[Rookie2]

Not come across your problem before but you could try the following..........

 

Remove both leads from the car battery.

Touch the red positive lead and the black negative lead together for about 30 seconds. Then re connect the leads to the battery

 

Remember !!!!! you are touching the battery leads (The wires to the battery) together  and NOT the battery terminals.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

This has the effect of dumping the ecu's temporary throw away memmory which may or may not help your problem.

The only problem I have know this action to cause is to lose the radio code on older models.

 

cheers

[paul.h]

Does the Berlingo have an alarm ? It might be a problem with the wiring in the steering mechanism - does the horn work normally when tested ?