ECU repair

[mh3kgt]

Know any reputable places that will repair an ecu right?

[steve]

My DSM customers I'm sending to Dave at ECMTuning but I don't think they do 3S ECUs since they had been sending people to me. I haven't found anybody doing 3S repairs that I would send my own ECU to and that's the criteria I use.
There is is a void right now for somebody with the right skill set and tools that takes pride in their work to fill. It's likely going to be a 3S owner like perhaps Levhard but I haven't see his work yet.

[steve]

Well I've been fixing ECUs for 10 years, The only thing that goes wrong with them is the capacitors that leak.
When they leak , the electrolyte goes all over the board and the tracks get eaten away.
Once that's happened some of them are repairable, some are not.

I've seen many problems that weren't caused by the capacitors leaking so I'm not sure what your trying to say.
Some are caused by other parts failing, ISC drivers are a good example and others by user error, blown sensor grounds from miswiring MAFs and universal O2 sensors, Blown transistors from miswired turbo timers and not counting the pins correctly when installing something and just blown ECUS from people reversing the power polarity. There is a smaller cluster of problems that just seem to happen normally because the environment, electrical or physical.

The caps leak or will leak on every 1G ECU, TCU, ECS, A/C digital display but that's not the only thing that goes wrong.

[toddrs93]

Know any reputable places that will repair an ecu right?

My guy is set-up to actually bench test the ecu's in house. There is NO charge if we can't fix them. Alot of people think cap replacement is easy and it isn't that bad, but the issue is the clean up/prep work of the board since it is a multilayer, most people fail to do that properly, INCLUDING AVPro. I don't know how many AVPro ecu's we have had to repair. I will guarantee the repairs we do. And we are cheaper than AVPro.

http://www.3sgto.org/showthread.php?920-ECU-Rebuilds