What is a 'Reflash'? when people mention it at their service?
05-19-2005, 05:37 PM
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As you've been told in another thread, aa, do a search before you ask questions. At the top of the screen in the line under the red car you will find the word "Search". Click on it and enter 'flash' or 'reflash' and you will have enough reading to keep you busy for the rest of the day (or two days if you are not a fast reader). 
05-19-2005, 07:29 PM
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Don't be mean Bean....
Searching is fine if you don't mind wading through dozens of posts that mention the word but don't give an explanation of precisely what it is.
A flash is an update to your car's computer.
It's similar to reflashing the BIOS on your home computer. In other words updating the lines of instruction code.
It might relate to any of the functions that the computer controls - for instance making a variation to the fuel map at start-up.
Searching is fine if you don't mind wading through dozens of posts that mention the word but don't give an explanation of precisely what it is.
A flash is an update to your car's computer.
It's similar to reflashing the BIOS on your home computer. In other words updating the lines of instruction code.
It might relate to any of the functions that the computer controls - for instance making a variation to the fuel map at start-up.
05-19-2005, 07:53 PM
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It is done by Mazda using a thing called a WDS and it is supposed to happen automatically according to the "blurb" handed out by my dealer at the first service.. Unfortunately (or fortunately for SCO and Hymee) you can't tell what flash you have unless you have an after market tool like Scanalyser (available when they finish crossing Ts and dotting Is - which is interesting as there are no Ts or Is in the word Scanalyser)!
05-20-2005, 01:51 AM
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Didn't mean to be mean (sounds like a song), BVD -- just trying to encourage a good habit. It seems to me that there are at least two benefits to doing a search before starting a question thread:
-- for the newbie, you get the accumulated wisdom of a couple of years instantaneously without waiting a day or two for a couple of answers. It might be information overload sometimes, but what you want to know is most probably there, plus a lot of other interesting stuff that you didn't know to ask about
-- for the rest of us, the forum retains the interest of the more experienced and knowledgable members who might well disappear if they become bored with a place where the same elememtary things are raised over and over again.
I was just trying to be helpful. You get some amazing rewards by searching this site.
-- for the newbie, you get the accumulated wisdom of a couple of years instantaneously without waiting a day or two for a couple of answers. It might be information overload sometimes, but what you want to know is most probably there, plus a lot of other interesting stuff that you didn't know to ask about
-- for the rest of us, the forum retains the interest of the more experienced and knowledgable members who might well disappear if they become bored with a place where the same elememtary things are raised over and over again.
I was just trying to be helpful. You get some amazing rewards by searching this site.
05-20-2005, 06:43 AM
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Fully understood what U were saying Jellybean n thankyou XXUP for explaination.. :p sorry for being stupid.. as i am new around here and confused..
Anyway, I've had my 10k service this afteroon and they had done a 'reflash' without asking for it..
Anyway, I've had my 10k service this afteroon and they had done a 'reflash' without asking for it..
05-21-2005, 05:43 AM
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There is no stupid question 
It is up to flash with a ZK CalID. CalID can be copied or written down by the WDS at the dealer. Or you can get someone with sCANalyser in your local area...
It is up to flash with a ZK CalID. CalID can be copied or written down by the WDS at the dealer. Or you can get someone with sCANalyser in your local area...
05-21-2005, 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by takahashi
There is no stupid question
It is up to flash with a ZK CalID. CalID can be copied or written down by the WDS at the dealer. Or you can get someone with sCANalyser in your local area...
It is up to flash with a ZK CalID. CalID can be copied or written down by the WDS at the dealer. Or you can get someone with sCANalyser in your local area...
05-21-2005, 02:01 PM
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CalID is the OBDII acronym for Calibration ID. It is basically an identifier for the version of the software in the cars computer.
Don't you like that - Explaining one acronym with another. Lucky neither of them are a TLA. :p
OBDII = On Board Diagnostics "2"
Different service departments probably call them different things. ANd then the people behind the desk probably have a different term for it than the mechacics. I know the boys at Grand Prix call it a "download".
Cheers,
Hymee.
edit: Fixed as per Beans note.
Don't you like that - Explaining one acronym with another. Lucky neither of them are a TLA. :p
OBDII = On Board Diagnostics "2"
Different service departments probably call them different things. ANd then the people behind the desk probably have a different term for it than the mechacics. I know the boys at Grand Prix call it a "download".
Cheers,
Hymee.
edit: Fixed as per Beans note.
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