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Offline lee1989

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #50 on: 26 September 2013, 19:07 »
No not far 5mins from him, i have spoken to him and he said that it might not be any codes there as the garage had deleted them, hopefully ill no more tomorrow as i have diagnostics coming out, as im lost without her  :cry: so with a bit of luck it will be up and running tomorrow or i will atleast no whats wrong  :smiley:

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #51 on: 26 September 2013, 19:49 »
No not far 5mins from him, i have spoken to him and he said that it might not be any codes there as the garage had deleted them, hopefully ill no more tomorrow as i have diagnostics coming out, as im lost without her  :cry: so with a bit of luck it will be up and running tomorrow or i will atleast no whats wrong  :smiley:

Where are you then? I thought you said Cardiff  :undecided:

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #52 on: 26 September 2013, 19:52 »
I live in rhymney mate  :smiley:

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« Reply #53 on: 26 September 2013, 19:54 »
I live in rhymney mate  :smiley:

Oops  :embarrassed:

If the bloke cant help you out give me a shout  :smiley:

Which garage did you take it too out of interest?  :huh:

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #54 on: 26 September 2013, 19:56 »
Ok cheers mate will do and i took it to a1 autos  :smiley:

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #55 on: 26 September 2013, 20:33 »
it doesn't have to run, you can sometimes learn enough from the codes generated just by switching the ignition on or cranking the engine.

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #56 on: 27 September 2013, 17:42 »
Just had diagnostics out and he seems to think my ecu has gone, What do u guys think? It did have some water damage/corrosion under the plugs as it was green if so how much to get another 1 coded in cheers

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #57 on: 27 September 2013, 18:13 »
Just had diagnostics out and he seems to think my ecu has gone, What do u guys think? It did have some water damage/corrosion under the plugs as it was green if so how much to get another 1 coded in cheers
this happened to my car got a spare ecu off a mate but seen loads on ebay for sale or find a car breaking near you  :smiley:

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #58 on: 27 September 2013, 18:18 »
Yea seen a few on ebay, just making sure it sounds like an ecu failure as ive spent alot on it the last few weeks with no results, do i need to match the part number, cheers

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #59 on: 27 September 2013, 18:22 »
Yes your part number needs to match exactly. They are fairly easy to code in, I'm sure even Rhys could do it


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