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Offline barrym381

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #60 on: 27 September 2013, 18:23 »
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
pretty sure you do i did with mine an they are not that expensive its coding them in the was the dearest part  :smiley:

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #61 on: 27 September 2013, 18:28 »
Yea just matched mine up on ebay, and theres 1 there for 17.50, but the man wants 180 just to code it in which i thought was a little expensive but im not clued up on things like this, cheers

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #62 on: 27 September 2013, 18:33 »
Yea just matched mine up on ebay, and theres 1 there for 17.50, but the man wants 180 just to code it in which i thought was a little expensive but im not clued up on things like this, cheers
it cost me 50 quid to have mine done so 180 sounds a bit much maybe some1 else can do it  :smiley:

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #63 on: 27 September 2013, 18:39 »
I thought it was a bit much to just code it in, when im supplying the ecu, but im sure he mentioned something about bypassing something im not sure  :undecided:

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #64 on: 27 September 2013, 18:39 »
What does he think the ecu is gone??

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #65 on: 27 September 2013, 18:42 »
Im not sure mate, he gave no real explanation as to why he thinks its that apart from the water/corrosion damage to it cheers

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #66 on: 27 September 2013, 18:49 »
What does he think the ecu is gone??
are you not near this guy  :undecided:

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #67 on: 27 September 2013, 20:44 »
What does he think the ecu is gone??
are you not near this guy  :undecided:

Yeah and your point??

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #68 on: 27 September 2013, 21:06 »
Im not sure mate, he gave no real explanation as to why he thinks its that apart from the water/corrosion damage to it cheers

Did he tell you if there were any fault codes?

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Re: car wont start?
« Reply #69 on: 27 September 2013, 21:06 »
What fault codes came up?

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