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

Maybe there is a dry joint or failing component on the ECU circuit board? This would affect things as the temperature changes.

If you can get to the board, I'd go over all the joints with a soldering iron and try it again.

synchro said:

Maybe there is a dry joint or failing component on the ECU circuit board? This would affect things as the temperature changes.

If you can get to the board, I'd go over all the joints with a soldering iron and try it again.

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Actually the ECU has been stripped and tested so many times it is unbelievable, so we know its not the ECU, but it, what ever it is, is effecting the ECU as I have just read this out to our garage guys. Thanks

Tony

When i used to test computer motherboards then send them to manufacturer for repair. On the odd one they would say no fault found but you could see a repair had physicaly been done.

Maybe they get repaired on the sly for one reason or another.

If the management light is on you can get a error code out of the ECU

just sounds like a dry solder joint on the ECU somewhere to me. suggest sending it elsewhere to be tested if you're no confident in repairing it yourself

If the car worked after the ECU had been cooled, it would point to the ECU? Either that or the connector to the ECU. Have you given this a good clean? Try a light grade emery cloth on the terminal if they can be got at?

I could check the ECU for bad joints and components by return of post if you cover my postage?

synchro said:

If the car worked after the ECU had been cooled, it would point to the ECU? Either that or the connector to the ECU. Have you given this a good clean? Try a light grade emery cloth on the terminal if they can be got at?

I could check the ECU for bad joints and components by return of post if you cover my postage?

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Thanks for your kindness there synchro but I know Danny has done that. He has now taken it away as he does like a challenge.

Thank you

Tony

No problem. I'd like to know the solution too when you discover it. I've got the same model as you and the same year too!

synchro said:

No problem. I'd like to know the solution too when you discover it. I've got the same model as you and the same year too!

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As soon as I know I will let you know