Aux heating enabled - questions

[ayat]

What scanners do u use to enable aux heating and where to u buy from ?

[jaynana]

[quote=""ayat""]What scanners do u use to enable aux heating and where to u buy from ?[/quote]

scanner 1.4.0.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310249608189? ... 1439.l2649
usually the never never land to order online from with past experience, but i've heard positive stories re. this particular advert so placed the order. waiting for delivery.

read this thread the E53s own wikipedia re. the aux heater: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=445 for all the info u need.

[ayat]

cool thanks alot.

[CondorX5]

Aux Vent I've found generally a complete waste of time so never bother with it even in the hottest weather, its useless. Those of you with diesel cars who didn't have Aux Heating as an optional extra will either have to use the Timer settings or get a remote that works with it - the BMW remote is some crazy price around £200 so I'd pass on that, but I read a thread somewhere about a Maplin Remote that works very well and costs about £20.

The Timers do a once-only routine, so you need to set your desired start time each time you use it. Otherwise you need to remember to point your remote at the window nearest where the car is parked 30 minutes before leaving. The aux heater was great this past icy week, I was going to use my S8 for a week but the X stayed out instead Second Timer useful if leaving the car for hours after the first timer had gone off, returning say evening then second timer can start and warm up those cold leather seats...... The aux heater is one of the nicest options for the petrol X IMO.....the oil burners are lucky they've all got one by default.

[mikem]

Has anyone wired one of the Maplin kits into the boot plug where the OEM kit goes ?

I'm not really keen on having wires trailing under the bonnet and a boot mounted job would be much easier to run the aerial to the window.

Does anyone know if the OEM telestart has a latching function or does it automatically function for the 30 mins once it's triggered once ? I know if wiring it to pin 1 on the Webasto under the bonnet I need a latching relay but as said above I want to do it in the boot.

[dirtymonkey29]

When I get mine working in gonna get a gsm unit to turn it on or off with a phone call, don't need to be anywhere near the car to turn it on then

[jaynana]

[quote=""mikem""]Has anyone wired one of the Maplin kits into the boot plug where the OEM kit goes ?

I'm not really keen on having wires trailing under the bonnet and a boot mounted job would be much easier to run the aerial to the window.

Does anyone know if the OEM telestart has a latching function or does it automatically function for the 30 mins once it's triggered once ? I know if wiring it to pin 1 on the Webasto under the bonnet I need a latching relay but as said above I want to do it in the boot.[/quote]

I haven't got this far unfortunately, my webasto blows cold air, doesn't heat up, my suspision is the glow plug, waiting for the scanner I've ordered to arrive to read the error codes before stripping the webasto apart)

Re latching: My gut feel is that theres no latching function and u have to control the 30min cutout.

[mikem]

I got lucky jaynana mine worked after just a flash.

What I don't understand is wether the OEM Telestart just fires 1 signal which then sets off the cars own 30min timer (like activating auxhillary heat via the OBC) or wether it supplies constant power to pin 1 for a pre set (latched) time like the maplin kits people have fitted under the bonnet.

[ayat]

Just received my scanner, Can anyone give me a quick summary what it can do. Need to get a laptop with xp I have windows7 on everything now.