photodoug
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First post so I hope a little story is ok. About a week ago the radio in my wife's 2010 500 stopped working. After some searching, it pointed to the fuse. I tried to get it out of the little dash compartment but ended up pulling the under dash shelf out. That's when I noticed the little block on the right (airbag ECU?) was a little loose.
I didn't think anything of it and just tightened the nut. put it all back together and started the car. Airbag warning, fuel cut off unavailable and start/stop unavailable all came on every time the car was started. Nothing else in the car was affected...oh and the radio works now
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This was late on a Sunday night and the car was important for Tuesday. No choice but the dealer. £701 later, new ECU and the car really runs like a top. I don't know if the loose component I found was causing noise on the CAN bus or if it was interacting with other things.
It was painful as it was fine (I guess to a point) before I jacked around with the shelf. I've read on like that you can get one of these for MUCH less but my question is about the syncing it to the rest of the bus. I've heard that purchasing and installing a new one is easy but unless you sync the new one to the other computers, you'll always have problems. Anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? Oh and any idea about what to do with the old ECU I made them give me?
I didn't think anything of it and just tightened the nut. put it all back together and started the car. Airbag warning, fuel cut off unavailable and start/stop unavailable all came on every time the car was started. Nothing else in the car was affected...oh and the radio works now
) This was late on a Sunday night and the car was important for Tuesday. No choice but the dealer. £701 later, new ECU and the car really runs like a top. I don't know if the loose component I found was causing noise on the CAN bus or if it was interacting with other things.
It was painful as it was fine (I guess to a point) before I jacked around with the shelf. I've read on like that you can get one of these for MUCH less but my question is about the syncing it to the rest of the bus. I've heard that purchasing and installing a new one is easy but unless you sync the new one to the other computers, you'll always have problems. Anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? Oh and any idea about what to do with the old ECU I made them give me?
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