Johnnys mods and CarConfig changes on a 2012 V70

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jp_swe

Discussion Starter · 10 mo ago

I have sucessfully retrofitted Electric tailgate on my 2012 V70

A while ago I wrote a small program that lets me edit my own CarConfig with a DiCE interface. No more need to pay * for every single change and I can edit any part of the config.

In my car I changed parameter #177 to 0x05.

Here is the wiring brought to me by a very good friend that spends to much time at the junkyard

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Separated the wiring only for POT and removed lots of sticky tape

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Finding the correct location and place the wiring up to the roof.

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My car didn't have a 12V feed to fuse #5, added a new 12V rail. Cut a rail from an old 2002 CEM

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Lots of wiring and realizing the interior roof has to come down...

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Mounted the new door hinges and installing the single electric motor. New wiring in place..

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Time to replace the rear hatch wiring and a new lock with closing motor.

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Finally replaced.. sticky sticky tape everywhere! Lock with closing motor installed.

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Cleaning up the wiring.. have two wires left, they are for keyless cars. Maybe some time they can be useful?

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Make CarConfig change!

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Simple youtube video with the result:

Then I realized that you cannot close the hatch with the key!! So I had to build a circuit for that to:

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wagonswede

· #2 · 10 mo ago (Edited)

Sorry if I spoil your cover but I see that this can be no other than Johnnype, legend in the Volvo community. Wonderfull to see you found your way into this board. Wellcome!

Nice mod. I know once you cracked car config, you won't stop there. But as an amateur as I am on the electrical side of things, did you need to do the same style "decode" as VDASH needs to do before being able to Edit? [/EDIT] Just found the answer.

As a side note, Im thinking you have the electrical boot lid switch. The earlier years had a hydraulic powergate accompanying two normal pressure cylinders same as on the non-power type, with the old style mechanical handle.

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Olli.Bolli

· #3 · 10 mo ago

That is absolutely awesome to see all this research and work on car electronics with this P3tool on top of it.

I do own an early V70III and would love to retrofit as much parts as possible including

original webasto parking heater,
BLIS,
rear mirror with compass,
tail lights,
original parking camera for RTI

...just to name a few things

I am a programmer myself and would like to learn a lot more about the hardware of the P3 platform.

Unfortunately information are hard to find.

Are there any plans to make your P3tool available to public one day?

Keep up the great work

Oliver

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jp_swe

Discussion Starter · #4 · 10 mo ago

wagonswede said:
Sorry if I spoil your cover but I see that this can be no other than Johnnype, legend in the Volvo community. Wonderfull to see you found your way into this board. Wellcome!

Nice mod. I know once you cracked car config, you won't stop there. But as an amateur as I am on the electrical side of things, did you need to do the same style "decode" as VDASH needs to do before being able to Edit? [/EDIT] Just found the answer.

As a side note, Im thinking you have the electrical boot lid switch. The earlier years had a hydraulic powergate accompanying two normal pressure cylinders same as on the non-power type, with the old style mechanical handle.

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Haha! I am not much of a legend

Yes I have to find the PIN by trial and error. I startade at 0x0 counting up at first but found it to work better (but not faster) counting from 0xFFFFFFFF and down. About 270pin/second can be tested with a good Win10 computer and USB-connected DiCE. The time it takes depends mostly on where your first correct PIN response is located. Some PINs have taken an hour or less and others more than eight hours..

The electric system replaced hydraulic somewhere around 2010-2011 maybe? I have heard it is very hard to find parts to this system.

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jp_swe

Discussion Starter · #5 · 10 mo ago

Olli.Bolli said:
That is absolutely awesome to see all this research and work on car electronics with this P3tool on top of it.

I do own an early V70III and would love to retrofit as much parts as possible including

original webasto parking heater,
BLIS,
rear mirror with compass,
tail lights,
original parking camera for RTI

...just to name a few things

I am a programmer myself and would like to learn a lot more about the hardware of the P3 platform.

Unfortunately information are hard to find.

Are there any plans to make your P3tool available to public one day?

Keep up the great work

Yes of course, you can activate lots of things in your car! Make it more Premium

Send me an PM and we will make it happen!

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wagonswede

· #6 · 10 mo ago

jp_swe said:
Haha! I am not much of a legend

.....

The electric system replaced hydraulic somewhere around 2010-2011 maybe? I have heard it is very hard to find parts to this system.

Yah... something like that. I was able to source the complete hydraulic setup to keep as a spare, just in case I have problems with mine but the biggest flaw with the old design is probably the rusting pin to the handle, and that one cannot mod it to open from the remote, I guess.

Anyway, stil have that CANbox i bought from you years ago but never got to work, still in the P2 car disconnected. Don't know of you remember but as soon as I connected it, I couldnt lock or start the car

. But it doesnt matter. I am happy to contribute to someone who has done so much for the Volvo community so I just left it there and manually push my comfort light and mirror folding buttons instead.

Anyway I would also be happy to have access to that software. I have a P3 project going on and there are some bits where I think I could use your help in the future. Here are a couple of things I have in mind:

Reconfigure the window auto close from the PCC remote to include the sunroof.

Reconfigure foglight to DRL function on pre facelift, same as on the facelift models.

Don't know if you know what is the reason why VEA engines can be configured to remote start but not non VEA.

Also if webasto remote start is possible with PCC only on older P3s. The volvo configuration list suggests this can only be remote started with the remote. Is the TC91 module or some other ODB device needed for this? Is that something you have an insight?

Anyway, I assume you are using a China DICE with your tool and not the genuine volvo DICE?

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jp_swe

Discussion Starter · #7 · 10 mo ago

wagonswede said:
Yah... something like that. I was able to source the complete hydraulic setup to keep as a spare, just in case I have problems with mine but the biggest flaw with the old design is probably the rusting pin to the handle, and that one cannot mod it to open from the remote, I guess.

Anyway, stil have that CANbox i bought from you years ago but never got to work, still in the P2 car disconnected. Don't know of you remember but as soon as I connected it, I couldnt lock or start the car . But it doesnt matter. I am happy to contribute to someone who has done so much for the Volvo community so I just left it there and manually push my comfort light and mirror folding buttons instead.

Anyway I would also be happy to have access to that software. I have a P3 project going on and there are some bits where I think I could use your help in the future. Here are a couple of things I have in mind:

Reconfigure the window auto close from the PCC remote to include the sunroof.

Reconfigure foglight to DRL function on pre facelift, same as on the facelift models.

Don't know if you know what is the reason why VEA engines can be configured to remote start but not non VEA.

Also if webasto remote start is possible with PCC only on older P3s. The volvo configuration list suggests this can only be remote started with the remote. Is the TC91 module or some other ODB device needed for this? Is that something you have an insight?

Anyway, I assume you are using a China DICE with your tool and not the genuine volvo DICE?

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I don't know why but the non VEA ECMs are missing the software needed to remote start. Not much to be done about that. There is a list of working engines: B4204x or D4204x or B6304T4 or B6324Sx or B5254T12 or B5254T14 or B5204T8 or B5204T9 or B4164Tx or B4162Tx all 4-cyl and VEA.

I have also retrofitted ACC - Adaptive Cruise Control, Stop and Go. on my 2012 V70 with B5254T10 engine. My ECM did not have support for ACC at all but managed to find an XC60 with same engine and could transplant ECM software into my car. Now it works 100%! Maybe the same could be done to solve remote start but in my case the T10 engine is not on the list anyway.

you have PM!

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moyni

· #8 · 10 mo ago

Do you have any way to try that software? I have been using VDASH for a while but I would love to check it out!

jp_swe

Discussion Starter · #9 · 10 mo ago (Edited)

moyni said:
Do you have any way to try that software? I have been using VDASH for a while but I would love to check it out!

Yes, please send me a PM and include your email.

Keep time differences in mind, I will answer but it can take some time

We are + six to nine hours from US, it's time to sleep here! Going back to work after a very long 6 week vacation

Jimac

· #10 · 10 mo ago

jp_swe said:
Yes, please send me a PM and include your email.

Keep time differences in mind, I will answer but it can take some time
We are + six to nine hours from US, it's time to sleep here! Going back to work after a very long 6 week vacation

Hi,

Its seems like amazing software. Any chance to I´ve try it out too?
I´m new on this forum and so I can't send PM to you.

For your needs, my email is: [email protected]

Thank you very much

jp_swe

Discussion Starter · #11 · 10 mo ago (Edited)

I'll take this opportunity to explain a few things.

The reason I started writing the p3tool application was mostly for myself (+ friends) and the fact that *****h charges to much money for simple carconfig edits. I knew from the P1/P2 Volvos how carconfig works and by reading flash memory from P3 CEM I understood that it works much in the same way. It is easy to find the config area and PIN code.

#1 My first steps, I wrote an Arduino sketch to read M23C/R32C MCU and EEPROM on the older P3 CEM.

Here it is, working on my 2012 CEM that uses R5F64524KFD / Renesas R32C 768KB Version. Immo data is in the E2PROM area and not external EEPROM like the older P3 CEM.

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Here is the windows application I wrote to Read/Write the different memory areas of M32/R32 MCU.

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It is to much work disconnecting CEM every time you want to make an config change!

#2 Next step, write application to work over OBD and CAN.

And here we are!

Now that you easily can change any part of the config from Parameter 1 - 255. Set any value you like, the car is finally yours.

For example:

Parameter #054 Heated Front Seats
0x01 = No
0x02 = Yes.
This is simple binary data being changed from 01 to 02. There is no "software" being loaded.
You do need to change seats or install heating elements, of course!

Parameter #120 Centre Speaker, Dashboard
0x01 = No
0x02 = Small
0x03 = Large
Again, simple data change. This is not more "advanced" than any other change.

Do you have a 2014- car with IHU but not full navigation? Then you do this:
Parameter #127 Navigation System
0x07 = Yes (and turn off Internet map in P#078)
Why would this be much more expensive with some other program? There is no new software, simple binary edit!

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moyni

· #12 · 10 mo ago

jp_swe said:
Why would this be much more expensive with some other program? There is no new software, simple binary edit!

Ill be interested to test it on my own car shortly, there is a V70 in the junkyard with power mirrors + BLIS that I am hoping to retrofit onto mine. Do you have any idea if this will change the CCM to know that the blis button is installed? I do see the options for both the power mirrors and BLIS in the software.

moyni

· #13 · 10 mo ago

One thing I know some of us with early spec 3.2 US models would love to have is the ability to enable Sport mode on our transmissions similar to the newer model P3s. Unforatuntely the P3 V70s we got here in the US are all the same spec; 3.2 FWD Automatic and with them being the first model years of the P3 we lost out on a lot of nice changes made later on in the chassis life. I dont know if its something that can be done with the tool, but certainly something I would be very interested in!

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jp_swe

Discussion Starter · #14 · 10 mo ago

moyni said:
Ill be interested to test it on my own car shortly, there is a V70 in the junkyard with power mirrors + BLIS that I am hoping to retrofit onto mine. Do you have any idea if this will change the CCM to know that the blis button is installed? I do see the options for both the power mirrors and BLIS in the software.

I would say BLIS is on P#037 and Retractable mirrors on P#085. Memory function on P#086.

jp_swe

Discussion Starter · #15 · 10 mo ago

moyni said:
One thing I know some of us with early spec 3.2 US models would love to have is the ability to enable Sport mode on our transmissions similar to the newer model P3s. Unforatuntely the P3 V70s we got here in the US are all the same spec; 3.2 FWD Automatic and with them being the first model years of the P3 we lost out on a lot of nice changes made later on in the chassis life. I dont know if its something that can be done with the tool, but certainly something I would be very interested in!

DSTC Sport mode?

I am not sure if it is a Config-able option. It might be built into the software of TCM/ECM.

moyni

· #16 · 10 mo ago

jp_swe said:
DSTC Sport mode?

I am not sure if it is a Config-able option. It might be built into the software of TCM/ECM.

I believe its a TCM option, and no not the DTSC Sport Mode. Let me try to explain;

So on my previous car my 2012 S60 R-Design (and all later model P3s) when the shifter is moved over to the side mode

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The cars gear display shows as "S" and the thottle respose is sharpened, etc.

On the early P3s, when the shifter is moved over to this position you are only able to select gears 1-6, it does not have an S mode where the car stays in automatic but is more responsive. There was a previous thread about this here:

www.swedespeed.com

Loading a s/xc60 TCM update on a xc70 for sport mode

There have been discussions on the P3 v/xc70 board about the geartronic sport mode. Apparently sometime in MY2011 the s/xc60 models started to include sport mode on the t6 models, there have been reports that, for some earlier '11 models that didn't come with it from the factory, it appeared...

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www.swedespeed.com

but since then there has not been much progress. If it is in the TCM I understand it might not be addable, just wanted to get your input as someone with more knowdlege of the systems 🙂

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jp_swe

Discussion Starter · #17 · 10 mo ago

moyni said:
but since then there has not been much progress. If it is in the TCM I understand it might not be addable, just wanted to get your input as someone with more knowledge of the systems 🙂

In P#009 Gearbox I have only found these options (P3 2013-)

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I have not seen an option to configure With/Without Sport mode.

Also, in the P3's unlike P1 and P2 generation there is no parameter for ABS/STC/DSTC as it was all an option on the older cars. It seems BCM with DSTC is standard and non-optional. Therefore there is no parameter to change BCM behaviour either.

But I have not found or tested everything, it is a work in progress

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zircular

· #18 · 10 mo ago

I don’t think the 3.2 cars got sport transmission programming in any model year, only auto and manual. That was a T6 thing until the Drive-E cars came along with the 8AT. (My S60 T5 had it but not this car.)

wagonswede

· #19 · 10 mo ago

jp_swe said:
In P#009 Gearbox I have only found these options (P3 2013-)
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I have not seen an option to configure With/Without Sport mode.

The thing a few would like to know from this, swapping the aut transmission for a manual is therefore no longer a problem?

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wagonswede

· #20 · 10 mo ago (Edited)

Its a bit odd most Volvos with the aut transmission did not have on "S" mode untill that late. I believe that even an 2.6l Opel Omega from the early 90s had that. My Audi S4 from 2004 also had it, including paddle shifters.

If it would be possible to manually tweak the shifting behaviour and the four-C modes damping characteristics, that would really be something.

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