Hi all,
my brother has a 1997 brava td 100 elx with 98000 miles.
I have a marea td elx, so its the same engine as his
About a week ago he was driving it and it stalled and would not start.The code light, the glow plug light and the injector light did not come on.
I checked it over and found the main fuse for the ignition (i think it was 40 amp) had blown.Also the injector fuse held behind the glove box had blew also.After replacing these, the code light came on and went off but no injector or glow plug light.
So he left the car into a local garage who could not fix it, but fitted an override switch to manually put on the glow plugs and if you push this switch for 10 seconds and then turn it over, the engine starts.bloody amateurs!!!!
But its running like a tractor!!
I have checked the ecu and one of the tracks on the circutboard has burnt out
I have a couple of questions, will it harm the car running like that? i suspect the whole engine management system is down.
Also as ive said ,i know the ecu is out and thats why the car is in the state its in.Does anyone have any ideas, and is there any reasons for the ecu blowing? Putting in another ecu might just blow it too, i suspect something has shorted it out but what ???
its a really lovely car and i talked him into buying it,so id like to help sort it for him
my brother has a 1997 brava td 100 elx with 98000 miles.
I have a marea td elx, so its the same engine as his
About a week ago he was driving it and it stalled and would not start.The code light, the glow plug light and the injector light did not come on.
I checked it over and found the main fuse for the ignition (i think it was 40 amp) had blown.Also the injector fuse held behind the glove box had blew also.After replacing these, the code light came on and went off but no injector or glow plug light.
So he left the car into a local garage who could not fix it, but fitted an override switch to manually put on the glow plugs and if you push this switch for 10 seconds and then turn it over, the engine starts.bloody amateurs!!!!
But its running like a tractor!!
I have checked the ecu and one of the tracks on the circutboard has burnt out
I have a couple of questions, will it harm the car running like that? i suspect the whole engine management system is down.
Also as ive said ,i know the ecu is out and thats why the car is in the state its in.Does anyone have any ideas, and is there any reasons for the ecu blowing? Putting in another ecu might just blow it too, i suspect something has shorted it out but what ???
its a really lovely car and i talked him into buying it,so id like to help sort it for him