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Does anyone know ,how I can find the EKA code for my MG F After this time,there is no tag on the keys to show it Len

You will need a obd reader such as Pscan to get the eka code. The cheap obd readers seen online wont provide the eka..
Having said that I have a reader that does provide the eka and allows you to change the code, but I've never managed to get the eka to work...

Judging by the picture of your instrument binnacle, your car is a Mk1 which will require either a T4 or Pscan. There are higher order analytical sets which will give you that & other information but as both Bruce & David have said the standard “£25 eBay offerings” won’t help at all.

I believe you are Birmingham way. There must be someone not too far away with a pscan. If they aren't on The-T-Bar, you could try asking on the Facebook 'MGF and TF Enthusiasts' group. A quick search there with the term "EKA code" reveals a load of helpful comments but none more helpful that I noticed than to check the car with a pscan.

Maybe your local, friendly MG Rover garage can check for you for a few beer tokens. Mine would!

I’ve just had a glance at Bruce’s post on another of your topics & he implies the f had a different connector for diagnostics, they two cars have the same fitting & there are similarities with the pin out but won’t understand each other. It’s a bit like a heavily accented Cornishman & an Australian trying to communicate in Latvian.

Airportable wrote:

I’ve just had a glance at Bruce’s post on another of your topics & he implies the f had a different connector for diagnostics, they two cars have the same fitting & there are similarities with the pin out but won’t understand each other. It’s a bit like a heavily accented Cornishman & an Australian trying to communicate in Latvian.

I am pleased to be corrected

I think I was getting confused by the alternative connection available for connecting pscan to Minis and other older cars.

I think that I am right about OBD2 compliance, though. Or have I got that wrong as well?

OBD2 was mandatory for all petrol cars from January 1st 2000, with 16-pin standard diagnostic connector.

Before that all cars from MG models which used mems 1.9 or 2J used exactly the same 16-pin diagnostic connector but with use of EOBD protocol, which covers all the rest MG F cars.

For EOBD cars additional pins were used to access some of ECUs.

3-pin connector was used for mems 1.6

Yes, later tf’s we’re OBD2 compliant & any competent reader should work, although there’s no substitute for our own favourite electronic interrogator.