Miss Fire. Need Help

[Woz]

I bet they don't do as much but I read a lot of good and dealing with my year it was hard to find even a used ecu under 500 so 260 is a lot better and I have had no problems

[stealthee]

Considering their "rebuild" consists of four 10 cent resistors, you are getting ripped. Also considering they don't have a way to actually test the ECU's then you don't know if its going to be fixed.

I have an extreme hate for them after they didn't fix my ECU in my TSI. Not only was I out the $270, but I had to drop $1000 off the price of the car when I was selling it.

[Roybatty]

I went with toddrs93, he is a vendor here, Auto Velocity, for ECS and ECU refurbishing. I was happy with it, took a little longer than I expected, but prices seemed reasonable, and I would do business with him again.

I agree with other posts regarding checking your spark. When the PTU is going it will fail occasionally after warmed up.

Also, there is a web link to manuals through 3SX, you do not need to buy them. Someone else has them available for download for free, but I don't have the link readily available.

[Woz]

i agree, but how much are resistors and caps suppose to cost? they aren't expensive at all. i guess it is hit and miss with them. they fixed my no spark so i can't say i had a bad experience with them. also how do i know that the used ecu im getting won't go in a month. its can go both ways. there is a downside to everything. you can even buy new things that are factory broken so if you bought something from somewhere once would you automatically say no to them?

i bet they don't have some proper equipment to test it in and i knew a little about circuit boards when it first happened, but all you really need is a volt meter to check for any broken connections then resolder new wire in. i changed my caps on mine because they were all leaking, it didn't fix it and i didn't want to ruin mine more when i could pay someone else to do it. also not everything is savable on a circuit board, you take a chance to get it fixed, if it doesnt work then it doesnt work. also even if it is fixed, from my experience with boards, even if they are fixed, it could only be fixed for a month then go again. nothing is guaranteed in this world

[speedy16]

Well I think the easiest thing for me to do is pull the ecu and have someone around me test it in there car. And then go from there I do have an ecu ready 2 be looked at

[stealthee]

Wrong.

Yes you DO get a gaurantee when done by a "pro"
Unfortunately when it comes to cars , there aren't many real "pros", just uneducated, unqualified, unskilled wannabes.

Steve

Hah, you're telling me when someone else does the same job and can also offer a guarantee for $100 less that $260 isnt a ripoff? How about when they charge you $260 and they don't even fix it and don't have the means to truely test it? Yeah, thought so.