Hi there.
I got a Golf mk4 1.8T 150bhp witch i got remaped in the UK.
before i got my car remaped by some known company witch i can´t remember the name of it.
i had bought an ecu off ebay and stupadly i removed my car ecu opened it
opened the one i bough of ebay and with a soldering iron
i removed the chip from my ecu and swoped it with the one from ebay and from there on words
the car used to miss fire and gerk,
but worst of all sometimes it used to drain allmost my batery
just to start the car up and it used to smoke a lot when starting.
thinking that by remaping the ecu on my car it would sort out this problem.
it made my car allmost back to normal.
i came and live in portugal since 2007 and 2 or 3 months after getting here the car
just stoped completly. took it to a garage and had it diagnosed and i was told
the the ecu was gone. phoned up my dad witch still lives in london and him to go to VW and buy me a new ecu witch cost around 600 quid
Cos vw in portugal dont sell the GTI Turbo they quote me allmost a 1000 quid for a new ECU and i wood have to wait a week to 10 days for it.
since then the car has driven like new.
My question is can i plugg my old ecu and try to read the map file of it and write it back on the new ecu or is it too dangerus just in case i blow this one too....
i miss the extra power and response that the car had.
unfortinatly cars sold in portugal are 95% disel and 5% petrol and most petrol cars are only 1.6 tops so any ware i try here i cant get a remap for my car.
can i buy the Map file and upload it my self on my car or what is the best way for me to remap my car again. i have ELM327 if that helps.
sorry if there are some spelling mistakes but im at work and i have to write this quick.....
