J.nguyen

Lately,.. iono why.. when my car is on and then all of a sudden it starts counting down on me.. even though my key is in ignition, and never touched it, juss driving and all sudden it starts to count down, then when it reaches Zero, TT just shuts off and turns back on, and sometimes starts count down again within few secs.. i guess it goes away sometimes but then again i sometimes gotta unclick key one click then reclick it and it will stop doing it.. why outta no where did it start doing this? did a wire get loose or something? please help. ( i did not intsall the turbo timer ) its an HKS turbo timer.

no2unenolife

im sure its probably just a wiring issue

urbansi

Bad power or ground, i can almost say that with 100% confidence. Mine did the same thing till i soldered everything and made sure all my connections were perfect.

lakai_19

i have that turbotimer and that happend to me the problem with mine was one of the wires were conceted backwords

J.nguyen

ic, well it ws working perfectly until a random *** day it just did it.. ill go check ground / power etc on all the wires htough.

J.nguyen

ok, its getting ridiculous, its counting down EVERY damn second evertime i drive it counts down non stop, i just keep turning it off, and it turns back on then counts down... now today it got even Worse... it counts down, does wierd stuff, Turns off, stays off, then turns on randomly, and now when i turned off my car and removed my key, the TT was still ON.. and it didnt even count down for me... i cheked all the wires looked to be Plugged in and good, ground wire was on but it was sharing ground wires with other applications.. is that the problem? other then that ALl the wires look good and secure... HOw can this randomly happen !!

lakai_19

if everything elts looks good i would try making its own ground worth a shot

J.nguyen

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by lakai_19 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">if everything elts looks good i would try making its own ground worth a shot</TD></TR></TABLE>

just tried to turn on car , and now my Turbo timer doesnt even turn on... help

B18EG6

where does it get its 12v constant from? Also, where does it see 12v ignition and accessory?

Where is it grounded?

Is the parking brake function used, or does that wire just ground out permanently to negate that feature?

edited.

Also - if I had to guess I would say its a bad connection at the 12v ign (aka green wire) Either that or maybe the relay inside of it has pewped out on you.

J.nguyen

ok so i made its own seperate ground and now its working fine.. i guess i cant use 3-4 stuff as the same ground =X

SiKid86

lol my greddy one would count down, turn the car off. Then I'd come back out from work 8 hours later and the ******* radio would still be playing. I turned that mother ****** off and just sit in my car the extra 20-30 sec now. I'm replacing that ******* thing with a profec b now

J.nguyen

just wondering. what is the GREY wire for? i believe its grey with little brown spots / horizintal lines.. i think its leading to my ECU but isnt really connected to it...

B18EG6

you sure you arent referencing the brown wire?

The <FONT COLOR="gray">gray</FONT> is for the parking brake.
The <FONT COLOR="brown">brown</FONT> wire is for the RPM signal from the ECU

J.nguyen

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B18EG6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you sure you arent referencing the brown wire?

The <FONT COLOR="gray">gray</FONT> is for the parking brake.
The <FONT COLOR="brown">brown</FONT> wire is for the RPM signal from the ECU</TD></TR></TABLE>


parking brake wire? whats that do?? Brown.. hmmm i dont think its brown.. but what does the RPM signal from ECU do? makes it so it turns off at 3krpm or something lol?

B18EG6

The parking brake wire is a safety feature. The light that goes on in your dash for the parking brake is a result of connection to ground.

If you choose to use the gray wire for the parking brake feature, the timer will only count down when the parking brake is up (providing the ground). If you want to disable this feature, simply permanently provide ground to the gray wire.

I dont quite know why the timer references the RPM wire... on the type1 models you can view the engine RPM so it might be an artifact of down compatibility... using the same board for all of their models maybe? Do you have the type0 or type1?

J.nguyen

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B18EG6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The parking brake wire is a safety feature. The light that goes on in your dash for the parking brake is a result of connection to ground.

If you choose to use the gray wire for the parking brake feature, the timer will only count down when the parking brake is up (providing the ground). If you want to disable this feature, simply permanently provide ground to the gray wire.

I dont quite know why the timer references the RPM wire... on the type1 models you can view the engine RPM so it might be an artifact of down compatibility... using the same board for all of their models maybe? Do you have the type0 or type1?</TD></TR></TABLE>

how do i check? i just see teh menus in the timer, it shows the voltage, some 16.00 10.00 iono wtf that is and the timer. i dont think it can show RPM .?

B18EG6

yeh I dont think the one you have has RPM

the 10 and 16 volts are more than likely the values to which you will get a warning for, dunno if they are variable... they might be?

Lol I havent touched my TT in a few years so I dont know the menus