Diagnostic Specialists

ECU Replacement

An ever increasing number of vehicles are referred to us as having ECU failure, in real terms many of these cars while having problems, do not in fact have failed ECU's. Often those unable to find the real fault with a vehicle blame the fault on the ECU.

ECU's do fail, sometimes caused by water damage, being 'spiked' by the use of jump packs and jump leads and also quite often jump leads being connected the wrong way round!

Other relatively common causes of ECU failure are specific to particular makes and models of car, for example Ford Focus and Mondeo and also Fiat Punto loss of spark to one or more cylinders. Vauxhall Astra, Vectra, Corsa and Omega ECU failures often cause rough running and frequently they are unable to start the engine.

These are not the only makes and models of car that suffer from ECU failure though.

We are often able to repair the ECU's on most makes and models of car, however sometimes it is more cost effective to replace the failed ECU with a used or remanufactured ECU, we are happy to offer help and advice and can supply most ECU's quickly and economically. Often saving Hundreds of pounds off the cost of genuine new parts.

Used ECU Problems

We get lots of calls from people who have bought second-hand or used ecu's from online auction sites, scrap yards and breakers yards, they have bought another ecu because the one on their car has failed, but their car wont start with the 'replacement' ecu! The reason is that most ECU's are coded into other components such as the immobiliser, dashboard, body controller or many other possibilities, we can help with this problem by cloning the 'new' ECU to match the 'old' ECU so that everything matches. 

Sometimes the replacement ECU has different versions of the software that is used on the rest of the vehicle or different options fitted, we can often correct these problems by reprogramming the ECU with files directly from the vehicle manufacturers websites in the same way that the dealers would.

ECU Types

We can supply exchange ecu's and recode customer supplied used ecu's for most makes and models of car, we can perform this specialised task on ecu's of the following types :-

1. Engine ECU's
2. Transmission ECU's
3. Body Control Units
4. BSI Units
5. UCH Units
6. Seat Controllers
7. Door Control Units
8. Suspension Control Units
9. Instrument Clusters
10. CIM Modules

And many more, just click on the link below to find out how we can help you with your problem.

Whatever the problem we can usually help.

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