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Sometimes people who send ecu's to me find they don't work when they put them back in, this is usually the reason, when the connectors are made they have a silicon put on them to waterproof and help the stability of the connector, it tends to wander into the sockets on the harness (car side).
It usually manifests itself in a couple of ways, running problems, starting problems, remove and replace ecu car works, do it again, doesn't. Each time you connect/disconnect a bit more of it gets out and on different pins.
I just got a stock NA ecu back from someone whom i'd lent mine too, i got theirs back and it doesn't work, i'm assuming its this, either that or my collection of dead ecu's is about to grow by 1 , but i thought i'd grab a pic of it before i took care of it.
Look for it each time you reinstall the ecu, it doesn't affect pre 2006 cars.
I just opened up another parcel with a different ecu, this one's the same, same amount of silicon on both connectors.
It usually manifests itself in a couple of ways, running problems, starting problems, remove and replace ecu car works, do it again, doesn't. Each time you connect/disconnect a bit more of it gets out and on different pins.
I just got a stock NA ecu back from someone whom i'd lent mine too, i got theirs back and it doesn't work, i'm assuming its this, either that or my collection of dead ecu's is about to grow by 1 , but i thought i'd grab a pic of it before i took care of it.
Look for it each time you reinstall the ecu, it doesn't affect pre 2006 cars.
I just opened up another parcel with a different ecu, this one's the same, same amount of silicon on both connectors.
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