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[duggs]

Guys ! Need your help..REALLY hope this is a simple fix.

Got a lovely 200 Elite today so haven't had much  time with her BUT...

I noticed the right hand stork ran the wipers fine BUT the end triggers for the computer were missing. Someone had installed the wrong stork and although it had the intermittant wheel...it did nothing...

SO..tonight I swapped it for my 1998 CD stock which seems to be the right one. Wipers work so does the intermittant wipe but it didn't change the on screen computer thing, mpg/constumption, 0-60 etc.

The question at last : Do I need to reset something on the car to get the storks buttons to work the computer. Is there a trick, a rest or anything or should I assume that the computer is fooked.

[hotel21]

Steering wheel controls?

My 2001/2 Elite estate does not have the actuator buttons on the wiper stalk, but done from the steering wheel controls....

[duggs]

Hmmmmmmm...I should add that the "built in" Tape/Radio" has been removed and has now got an aftermarket Radio/CD player.

I WAS going to plonk in a new SonyXplod Bluetooth player.

Is that any reason for the computer not to work from the stork I've fitted ??

[Marks DTM Calib]

Does it have an ncdc nav system....if so the bc is controlled via the radio

[tunnie]

Hmmmmmmm...I should add that the "built in" Tape/Radio" has been removed and has now got an aftermarket Radio/CD player.

I WAS going to plonk in a new SonyXplod Bluetooth player.

Is that any reason for the computer not to work from the stork I've fitted ??

Thats going to loose your Bose sound.

Personally i would source a genuine headunit back in (waits for crys of pain from DaveDND)

Do you still have the Bose Amp in the boot? (big black tray under neath the parcel shelf in boot)

[duggs]

Wow ! Thank you for the quick replies.

She hasn't got SatNav.
In the boot there IS a long tray thing BUT its empty.

Loads of wires, I think with a plug on the end which seems to be loose inside the big box thing.

Have I been short changed and am i buggered regarding the compter controls. ?

[tunnie]

sounds like someone has ripped out the Bose, worth checking if the speakers have been changed too as they are a different type, and normal headunits don't power them so well.

Stalk should control the MID (fuel/stopwatch/temp/range) ect

[duggs]

"Stalk should control the MID (fuel/stopwatch/temp/range) ect"

Even if the radio has been removed ??

The speakers SEEM to be the geniune BOSE.

To be truthfull I don't really mind the stereo being different, especially as I need the Sony Bluetooth fitted for work purposes BUT I really DO want the Computer to be working correctly..but after the quick switch over tonight...it doesn't...hence i was wondering if something needs resetting somewhere and somehow.

[tunnie]

"Stalk should control the MID (fuel/stopwatch/temp/range) ect"

Even if the radio has been removed ??

The speakers SEEM to be the geniune BOSE.

To be truthfull I don't really mind the stereo being different, especially as I need the Sony Bluetooth fitted for work purposes BUT I really DO want the Computer to be working correctly..but after the quick switch over tonight...it doesn't...hence i was wondering if something needs resetting somewhere and somehow.

Of course, the radio has nothing to do with the upper half of the MID.

The speaker grills may say Bose, but depends whats behind the grill.

I have an Alpine headunit in mine, stalk controls still work fine 

[duggs]

Good point tunnie..but the sound is ok to be honest..I'm too old to go "head banging" in my car..PLUS country music doesn't really "do it".

So ! IF the radio controls have nothing to do with the upper half of the mid....how SHOULD I be able to change through the various computer options.

[tunnie]

standard wiper stalk you get on most Omegas, be the same as in your last one. You said you swapped it over? Should work fine...

[Marks DTM Calib]

SO what does the display look like?

[duggs]

he he he...Don't laugh..I'll go and check...I'll be right back.

[Andy H]

SO what does the display look like?

Guessing GID or CID?

[duggs]

okey dokey.  Its about 1.5 inches deep x 4 inches wide and displays in orange.
Currently it sais top left " 13o'c
top right it has the time.
Middle it has the date.

Under that a long Orange line and under that "BOSE"

I've been click steering wheel buttons AND the relocated stork buttons and the display won't change.

Is it possible that a stork from a 1998 CD won't control the display in a 2000 Elite. ?   Could that be the answer guys ?