OBD lock install on Fiat Ducato 2012 but fits from 06 onwards (1 Viewer)

[TheBig1]

Skyway and others
Visit the website https://www.womo-tuning.de/
and click on Shop

Then OBD-spere

Select the parts and add to basket "In den warenkorb"
Go to the basket icon
In the box einlosen, add the discount code MOTORHOMEFUN-UK for 5% off
Anmerkung zur Bestellung is for Order Notes
Then click nachster schrit for next step

Vorname First name
Nachname Surname
strasse Street and number
Adresszusatz additional address
Postleitzahl Post Code
Stadt County
Telefon Phone number
E-mail errrrr?
Land choose Vereinigtes Königreich for Country

Anmerkung annotation not needed

Nachster schrit Next again

Choose to pay by Paypal

From there on it is obvious

Hope that helps

 

[Skyway]

Thank you very kind and helpful

 

[Wombles]

You can get an OBD lock direct from Protectavan for £105

If it's via their website <Broken link removed> their prices are excluding VAT & plus delivery works out at £136.93.

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[Skyway]

Just order it on its way thanks

 

[Wombles]

For anyone ordering from Camper Protect - maybe also have a look at the other security products on there to make the most of the p&p especially if you have a van conversion. We have also bought locks for the sliding door & rear barn doors which are the best versions that we have found so far More info. with our own photos here https://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/foru...ding-accessories-discount-codes.184590/page-7 . For any type of Ducato/Relay/Boxer motorhome If you don't want to fit internal HEOSafe door locks to the cab doors then scroll down here for another chain option & another for the exterior sliding door .What's really good is that all of these are fairly priced & can be removed without trace if selling the motorhome & possibly used on the next one or sold - we are big fans as these are really well made too

 

[Diabalo]

Thanks, been meaning to do something about the OBD port for awhile so have ordered one.

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[Diabalo]

I have tried to fit mine today but it doesn't go close enough leaving the bolt too short, not sure if I have been sent the correct item as mine has a grey 3D printed plastic insert not the green as shown in the bigones photos. I have contacted them so I will have to wait and see.

 

[TheBig1]

It should be the same Dane, the bolt is just long enough. First time I tried the bolt didn't line up with the threaded hole. So I assembled the cover and plastic with the bolt through and lined up that way straight away

Thought it was just me with fingers like sausages

 

[Marmite]

What it needs is a spacer. The new fixing bolt I was supplied was slightly longer than the original, but as there is no spacer behind the port protector, the port cover tips to one side when tightened. Going to fit spacers / shims behind to fill the gap when I next go to the MH to level it up. This should stop somebody just putting a wire cutter in the gap behind and shearing the bolt. Proposing to use a stack of washers as this is thicker and harder to cut....at least that's the theory.

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[Diabalo]

I sent them this photo of my port and they are saying it's not regular, all I did was cut the plastic OBD port cover off to see if the security cover would go closer. I would say the bolt is 10mm too short. I can get round it as others have said with a longer bolt and spacers but it should fit correctly in the first instance. Does the square bit to the right that the bolt goes in look the same as others?

 

[TheBig1]

very strange, yours appears the same as mine, without the extra wires and ali plate. However the OBD port appears to be further forward by a small amount. Is the OBD port loose at all? maybe not seated into the socket?

Otherwise, as you suggest a slightly longer bolt and some extra washers to hold the plate and plastic part flat

 

[Diabalo]

very strange, yours appears the same as mine, without the extra wires and ali plate. However the OBD port appears to be further forward by a small amount. Is the OBD port loose at all? maybe not seated into the socket?

Otherwise, as you suggest a slightly longer bolt and some extra washers to hold the plate and plastic part flat

My OBD port is pushed in from the back of the plate and as it comes through at each end 2 little plastic lugs pop out to lock it in position and stop it dropping back out. To be honest with a good tug on the wires the little holding lugs could probably be broken off. It is seated correctly. What year is your MoHo?

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[TheBig1]

My OBD port is pushed in from the back of the plate and as it comes through at each end 2 little plastic lugs pop out to lock it in position and stop it dropping back out. To be honest with a good tug on the wires the little holding lugs could probably be broken off. It is seated correctly. What year is your MoHo?

2012

 

[Chris51]

Was it on here I read about disconnecting the OBD and fitting a block connecter on the wires and keeping the old OBD ready to connect up when needed?Excuse if a;ready posted!

 

[Deneb]

2012

The socket is detachable and clipped into a bracket on the redesigned BCU/fuse boxes from the facelift 2014 MY.

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[Deneb]

Was it on here I read about disconnecting the OBD and fitting a block connecter on the wires and keeping the old OBD ready to connect up when needed?Excuse if a;ready posted!

Personally, I wouldn't recommend that, but on the facelift vans if you fit the ProtectaVan/TVL OBD lock it relocates the socket to a different location below the lower dashboard panel. You can fit another OBD socket from a scrap van into the original location and run its cables unconnected into the original loom using matching loom tape.

 

[Diabalo]

Personally, I wouldn't recommend that, but on the facelift vans if you fit the ProtectaVan/TVL OBD lock it relocates the socket to a different location below the lower dashboard panel. You can fit another OBD socket from a scrap van into the original location and run its cables unconnected into the original loom using matching loom tape.

Any chance of a photo of the required location? As I can't see anywhere else it can go but I have a 2013 van.

 

[gus-lopez]

I knocked up a port protector from a couple of oddments in the garage, not pretty, but no0one ever sees it. For a Mk7 Transit.

The U clamps bolt round the steering column support bar, but even taking those bolts off does not give access to the port. The idea, as always, is just give the bad guys enough potential hassle so they say "Lets move on to a different vehicle".



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I made a temprary one last year that I have just changed to a complete enclosure with front cover & sliding pin lock.
Trouble with what you have done is that a set of bolt cutters will chop the lock off in seconds ,although anything helps to delay them.

Here is mine.

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[Sandancers]

I made a temprary one last year that I have just changed to a complete enclosure with front cover & sliding pin lock.
Trouble with what you have done is that a set of bolt cutters will chop the lock off in seconds ,although anything helps to delay them.

Here is mine.View attachment 431396

Yes, it was never meant to be Fort Knox. Just want the bad guys to be faced with more hassle so they decide to go elsewhere.

 

[Deneb]

Any chance of a photo of the required location? As I can't see anywhere else it can go but I have a 2013 van.

Have a look on TVL's website under Ducato equipment, there's a photo there. The steel case that encloses the socket is bolted to the dashboards tubular steel frame mounting with a shear bolt, just above the throttle pedal.

 

[Wombles]

Mr Wombles fitted ours today - quick & easy especially after helpful photos on this thread

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[Diabalo]

Wombles, did you like me have to put a spacer where torx screw goes?

 

[Wombles]

Wombles, did you like me have to put a spacer where torx screw goes?

No - it was a perfect fit!

 

[Marmite]

I needed to use a spacer...used a slightly oversized nut.

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[Diabalo]

I needed to use a spacer...used a slightly oversized nut.

I did the same

 

[Stevemc694]

Has anyone fitted the womo-tuning OBD lock to a RHD Ducato X290? Reason I ask is that on their website it states not suitable for right hand drive (UK)

 

[Wombles]

Has anyone fitted the womo-tuning OBD lock to a RHD Ducato X290? Reason I ask is that on their website it states not suitable for right hand drive (UK)

That's an amendment that wasn't on the listing before but thank you for pointing it out. Can confirm it's a perfect fit for 2018 LHD anyway!

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[TheBig1]

Has anyone fitted the womo-tuning OBD lock to a RHD Ducato X290? Reason I ask is that on their website it states not suitable for right hand drive (UK)

at a guess, reading through, the later x290 vans need a spacer to make the cheap lock fit. Or go with the TVL lock that I did a write up on for a transit van

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[Marmite]

fits fine on RHD 2019 Ducato model with spacer .. see my previouscomments above

 

[Stevemc694]

Thanks for replies. Just one query please! Is the bolt that needs to be removed before inserting the torx screw actually holding anything? In other words will anything “drop off” behind it ??

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