Well, I'm a step closer with the arrival of the Steve Wong chip. Interestingly, I had the situation where the notched chip end was facing in the opposite direction of the notch in the chip carrier. This is in direct conflict with the written instructions included with the chip and on his website. After a short email exchange he told me it should face the same direction as the original chip did. This was the obvious answer, but as the Porsche Service Center had sent the DME out for testing the previous week and that had also been mentioned by the DME repair Centre I wanted to make sure they hadn't rotated the original chip's orientation.
Anyway, here are some before and after shots as I'm still waiting for the fuse box relay to arrive to complete the elimination of the immobilizer from the start sequence.
Just after opening the DME this is what you see.
Close up of the original chip, note the notch on the left end.
As you can see the chip carrier has a notch facing the other direction(towards the circled 30).
Steve Wong's chip now installed with the notch to the left.
Last shot with the outer clip attached to secure the chip installation.
