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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

My car is in for service and Mot today.

Just been told it needs a new ecu and a radiator

Ok so it's 17 years old on Monday but it only has 90k on it.

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By *aughty_Smooth_OperatorMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

I had a fiesta and it needed a ECU was to expensive to get one so I sold for parts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Happy birthday to your car on Monday.

They do say that the teenage years are the most expensive.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I can afford the work but couldn't afford to replace the car out right so it's the rock and a hard place thing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Are you having cake?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Are you having cake?"

I may need to

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Take the radiator out of the hallway as it's pointless no one ever uses it.

Get the hosepipe and spray underneath the car as a ECU is technically a extreme clean underneath

Or alternatively you could buy Ebay parts to fix it x

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

ECU can be reset sometimes, or old civic ours went.

They took it into garage and plugged it in overnight and basically fooled the computer into thinking it was new.

We got ten more years and another 100k out of it!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"ECU can be reset sometimes, or old civic ours went.

They took it into garage and plugged it in overnight and basically fooled the computer into thinking it was new.

We got ten more years and another 100k out of it!!"

They did that for the mot last year. Not working this time though

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By *alldarksurreyMan
over a year ago

surrey

Was there a problem with the ecu when it went to the garage and did you have any warning lights on the dashboard?

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

What car it is?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How come it needs an ECU Wonko? The radiator is a "make peace and deal with it" type of thing unfortunately but the ECU seems bit drastic

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By *lex46TV/TS
over a year ago

Near Wells

Cars are a right pain. Half of my meets get cancelled because of car problems.

I thought modern cars were reliable, even old modern cars, If that's a thing?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Was there a problem with the ecu when it went to the garage and did you have any warning lights on the dashboard?"

On going issue with the steering sensor. Replaced a couple of times and no different sensors test ok off the car so it looks like the ecu input is at fault

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"What car it is?"

04 plate Audi A3

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By *alldarksurreyMan
over a year ago

surrey


"Was there a problem with the ecu when it went to the garage and did you have any warning lights on the dashboard?

On going issue with the steering sensor. Replaced a couple of times and no different sensors test ok off the car so it looks like the ecu input is at fault "

Has the wiring been checked between the ecu and sensor?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Was there a problem with the ecu when it went to the garage and did you have any warning lights on the dashboard?

On going issue with the steering sensor. Replaced a couple of times and no different sensors test ok off the car so it looks like the ecu input is at fault

Has the wiring been checked between the ecu and sensor?"

Yes

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Was there a problem with the ecu when it went to the garage and did you have any warning lights on the dashboard?

On going issue with the steering sensor. Replaced a couple of times and no different sensors test ok off the car so it looks like the ecu input is at fault

Has the wiring been checked between the ecu and sensor?"

Garage has and I have (electrical engineer)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Was there a problem with the ecu when it went to the garage and did you have any warning lights on the dashboard?

On going issue with the steering sensor. Replaced a couple of times and no different sensors test ok off the car so it looks like the ecu input is at fault

Has the wiring been checked between the ecu and sensor?

Yes "

My car had abs fault light on the dash and they plugged it in to a computer and it went off.Then it came back days later.Three times that happened and the car was only about a month old at the time.

That turned out to be some type of wired plug thing.

He said he basically just unplugged something and plugged it back in as it wasn't seated in the socket properly.Its been fine since x

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Was there a problem with the ecu when it went to the garage and did you have any warning lights on the dashboard?

On going issue with the steering sensor. Replaced a couple of times and no different sensors test ok off the car so it looks like the ecu input is at fault

Has the wiring been checked between the ecu and sensor?

Yes

My car had abs fault light on the dash and they plugged it in to a computer and it went off.Then it came back days later.Three times that happened and the car was only about a month old at the time.

That turned out to be some type of wired plug thing.

He said he basically just unplugged something and plugged it back in as it wasn't seated in the socket properly.Its been fine since x "

Been done

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is it at a dealership? I'm not knocking the garage if it isn't but, from being in the trade, sometimes there are things a dealership can do that independents just can't.

I've never had any instances of changing an ECU due to this problem. You've probably already done it all but research steering sensor calibrations for your car and go through every different procedure a few times (it might be the winning procedure but need doing a few times to take, stuff like that can be very fickle).

Failing that I'd book it in at a dealership/VAG specialist and get their take on it before you put an ECU on it. It might cost around £100 (at a dealership) for a diagnostic but at least you'll know what it needs or at the very least have the peace of mind that the ECU is the right way to go.

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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago

Chippenham Malmesbury area

My 25 year old VOLVO had an ABS warning light fault and it just scraped through the previous 3 MOTs by my getting it to work long enough for the tester to pass it on the re-test. It had a plastic mechanical locking device on the main connector; this was showing signs of wear so I made a clamping device for it out of metal and now the light goes out and stays out.

Seems a really costly way to rectify a fault with a single system. Prefer there really only cars, no electronics, they could be repaired by repair not by replacement.

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts


"What car it is?

04 plate Audi A3"

and here's me thinking Audi are invincible and un breakable, well you live & learn

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

It is a wolksvagen/Audi specialist that it's with

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"What car it is?

04 plate Audi A3

and here's me thinking Audi are invincible and un breakable, well you live & learn"

It's the only thing that has gone wrong with it so far. Still has the original Audi battery

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"What car it is?

04 plate Audi A3

and here's me thinking Audi are invincible and un breakable, well you live & learn"

Theyre definitely not. Our garage the most common cars with problems are vw/audi/seat/skoda & vauxhall.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But in all fairness audi do suffer from the solder on the boards flaking. Weve seen it so so many times with 'audi TT'. 'Ecu doctor' repair them quite reasonably. The issue with using a second hand one is theyre coded so useless unless you have the whole lot re-synced which is very costly

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