Me9 tuning and CAN bus hacking

c30c30

Long shot... but are any members tuning their ME9 ECU? Or working on CAN bus mods?

If you are, please drop me a line and lets talk.

timbo

Ive had a bit of a look around at different options but keep coming back to the hilton offerings. Ultimately you would have to be doing something fairly far from the usual p1 upgrades to justify the time/$$$ in custom tuning vs the plethora of off the shelf stuff.

https://hiltontuning.com/product/volvo-self-tuning-flash-software-me9/

Jamest5r_

There was a bloke in the UK that broke the me9 code so they could be tuned i won't mention his name, he then sold the info to Hilton they are the only ones that can do it unless some other clever person has managed it

c30c30

Won't mention or can't mention? :lol:

These days I don't think flashing ME9 is a challenge. Reverse engineering the flash process from Vida is possible and now MPPS, FGtech and others are claiming to flash ME9 via CAN. Besides the real challenge is reverse engineering the ME9 ecu functions (target based, dynamics etc).

I've been in contact with Hilton and he's able to help me with one of my requests. But I've got other things I'd like to see done.

Freematics (freematics.com), and similar projects have caught my eye, but what seems to be the limiting factor is the lack of PUBLIC knowledge regarding Volvo CAN (D2) pids.

Some really cool things are possible if we can open up the ECU and CAN bus on these cars. But what seems to be holding this back is the lack of public information. Any information is tightly held. I've managed to "find" enough to get me started with my project, but I thought it would be worthwhile to reach out and see if anyone else is doing interesting things in this space and are prepared to share their knowledge.

Undoubtedly if I get anywhere with my project I will report back and post everything on Github.com for public consumption.

Jamest5r_

I've explained my reasons in a pm mate

c30c30

Thanks. Appreciate it and totally understand. I presumed naively that it was some Swedish mafia connection. It seems that there is a real clique amongst tuners that keep knowledge tight. But not the case here.