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Old 06-22-2009, 08:41 PM   #26 (permalink)
charliex
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Well since i know who you mean, i think it was more a communication problem, i don't speak french and his english wasn't great, but regardless the ecu was physically damaged which isn't anything to do with me or my reflashes, and unfortunately there isn't much i can do with as the parts to repair it aren't readily available but i did what i could, i just don't see how that translates into me only helping out personal friends, if anything my friends get less of my time.

I do repair the ecu's for people if i have the parts, and i don't charge for it, but in that instance i had no parts to fix it.

I did actually get that ecu you sold him back too,i think, it'd been tampered with and 'investigated' as well , but i agreed to reflash what he needed on to it as well, i usually do, last week i reflashed an ecu for a customer that i don't know, and didn't sell a flash too, but he had some emissions problems with the readiness codes (which turned out was a decat) so it couldn't pass the test for registration, as it had been flashed by me with a previous owner, so i even look after the people that don't directly buy from me.

I think i've been pretty good about helping people out by and large, i can't please everyone all the time, and i'm just one guy, but its not for want of trying.

I have ended my other companies to work full time on the car stuff, i have some backup from a busy few months but i'll start getting on top of it soon. I'm usually flying out to do tuning for a few hours and end up staying up til 4am working on cars with pre existing faults, even staying extra days which makes me even less available, but its just part of the business. However even with that , i think i'm doing, i have been hard to get hold of recently, but i've either been at the dyno, travelling on a plane, or getting the little sleep i have been able too. As i said i maintain a calendar, and a GPS system to let people know where i am, i post my cell phone number and if you can get through to me (as i'm often on the phone with other people, you can get me 7 days a week, i doubt you can say that of many companies), people don't seem to realise though that i do spend most of my day on the phone as it is, i'l help anyone i can, even if its not a problem, related to me, if its a cluster reset issue, a decat problem, need to diagnose an obd ii ,circuit diagrams etc.


But it seems you yourself didn't have any issues with me or the reflash i did for you, and this is a comparison on the efi standalaone and my reflash ?
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