Tonyphotoplus
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I have asked here the other week, but progress has not been great. The car broke down and wouldn't start and yes the management light came up. When it was cooled down it did start for a while then wouldn't start when heated up.
Garage one thought it was the crankshaft sensor and found it wasn't, sent the ECU to Nottingham to see if they could sort it out and they found nothing wrong and that garage just wanted me to fit a new ECU unit even though it came up negative and they seemed not really wanting to get tothe bottom of the problem. So we took it to our own garage
After leaving with Danny for 10 minutes it stopped runnig and after that it didn't want to start at all. I have no idea why he did it, but he put the ECU into the freezer and it started. When heated up it stopped and this happened every time. He sent the unit back to Notts and they again could not find anything wrong with it. It came back and Danny checked all the sensors (not having changed any but checked them all), but since the ECU unit was back it was running fine and no problem all afternoon. It was behaving itself. He couldn't get it to anything wrong
We got the car ventured out over the weekend and all has been ok no problems at all. We covered about 90 to 100 miles.
This morning the car won't start. The management light is on again, the car turns over and thats it.
So we really are in the dark here. Is there a car these days that doesn't have one of these horrible units in, as I seem to be hearing loads of horror stories and expensive stories with these units!!
Also I live in the countryside no near neighbours and live on morphine, need to get to the docs and NEED the car. :bang:
Can anyone assist here please
Thanks
Garage one thought it was the crankshaft sensor and found it wasn't, sent the ECU to Nottingham to see if they could sort it out and they found nothing wrong and that garage just wanted me to fit a new ECU unit even though it came up negative and they seemed not really wanting to get tothe bottom of the problem. So we took it to our own garage
After leaving with Danny for 10 minutes it stopped runnig and after that it didn't want to start at all. I have no idea why he did it, but he put the ECU into the freezer and it started. When heated up it stopped and this happened every time. He sent the unit back to Notts and they again could not find anything wrong with it. It came back and Danny checked all the sensors (not having changed any but checked them all), but since the ECU unit was back it was running fine and no problem all afternoon. It was behaving itself. He couldn't get it to anything wrong
We got the car ventured out over the weekend and all has been ok no problems at all. We covered about 90 to 100 miles.
This morning the car won't start. The management light is on again, the car turns over and thats it.
So we really are in the dark here. Is there a car these days that doesn't have one of these horrible units in, as I seem to be hearing loads of horror stories and expensive stories with these units!!
Also I live in the countryside no near neighbours and live on morphine, need to get to the docs and NEED the car. :bang:
Can anyone assist here please
Thanks