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@ARFA: You own a lovely 1st series Ghibli II. I think you're a brave man having such an amount of work tackled all at once. There are very few people around nowadays who are still prepared to invest in these underrated Maserati's. Please continue to take good care of her! --- All wiring in...

For sure the 3200GT(A) was available with a navy blue and a much brighter blue leather interior. The navy blue variant may often appear to be black on pictures depending on the image quality and whether a flash was used. Personally I am not a big fan of the lighter variant, the navy blue...

At least on the 3200GT(A) one should be careful NOT to turn the ignition on with the instruments disconnected. This might be tempting for various reasons (eg. to drive the car into the garage when the evening falls), but it will lead to the airbag warning light being switched on. When the...

@arananollie: The rev counter in the Jaeger dashboard unit of the 3200GT(A) tends to blow up quite easily. I had this happen on my car as well and located a company that could fix it without too much hassle (for a figure of about 150 quid). Some time later I had a friend with the same...

The description Maserati provides for P1554 is 'CAMSHAFT POSITION ACTUATOR, INLET (BANK 2) : OPEN'. In this case the 'open' refers to a wire on which no resistance is measured which could either be what it suggests (ie. a cut wire) or a dodgy connection. It is an error which is thrown in the...

Please find attached a little overview of the desciptions Maserati provides for the DTCs mentioned in this topic: DTC 0226 --> this code is not present in the SD2 software for the 3200GT/GTA! DTC 0353 --> COIL 3 CONTROL DTC 0356 --> COIL 6 CONTROL DTC 0357 --> COIL 7 CONTROL...

@Fat Arnie: P0331 is caused by a knock sensor problem. It is the knock sensor for cylinders 3-4-5-6 and the fault points to a wrong reading WITH THE IGNITION KEY TURNED ON (and NOT while running, since this would cause error P0330). For cylinders 1-2-7-8 the error codes are P0326...

@rotorheadcase: Good to hear! Fortunately it is a cheap part. But if you first want to give it a try with your current one, just clean it thoroughly. Possibly your problem can be fixed by pulling out the moving part just a bit. Hopefully soon I will have further details on the specific...

@rotorheadcase: 0x1665 should be the brake pedal switch. If I am not mistaken the switch contains two circuits which work in the opposite way (eg. one is open if the pedal is depressed, the other one if it is pressed) . As far as 0x1171 is concerned, I am unable to help at this moment.

@javier: To my knowledge the ABS/ASR ECU and airbag ECU's do not work with the ELM32x series. Today I received the latest ELM327 based interface from Gendan. I will have a try with it as it does support the slow init mentioned by you. The slow init was only introduced in version 1.4 (which...

@dunnah01: I am curious what you find when you connect to the airbag ECU. This weekend I had a go at this ECU but for some reason it does not allow me to read bytes from its memory, despite the fact that it confirms successful receipt of the command (after a while it returns a message...

@dunnah01: Thanks a lot for the excellent diagram! It matches exactly with what I have measured on the ODB-II to 3 pin cable and what I found within the blue USB interface that I have. To which ECU's have you been able to connect? And what baud rate did you use for both the interface and...

@Ledlights: In order to connect to your engine ECU, did you use one of Sander's modified cables or did you use a standard one bought on eBay? By the way, is it correct that all ECU's in the pre-OBD 3200GT's each have their own diagnostics connector and that only two wires run up to each of...

@Emtee: No, this does not have anyhing to do with either ST2 or Leonardo (to mention another tool). The software is the official SD2 diagnostics software as supplied to the dealers by the Maserati factory. It was not developed in-house by Maserati but they outsourced this to Digitek. To my...

@Emtee: I recently bought both the Maserati SD2 system software (SW BASE) and the CD's for the 4200 Spyder and Ferrari 575M Maranello on eBay. What do you mean with 'write as well as read'? I just copied the contents of the CD onto my local hard drive and have been experimenting modifying the...