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[Seasidegirl]

Any advice on: ecu location

sometimes you are pushed out of your comfort zone and have to learn new skills due to lack of funds i am now trying to repair my 21 year old sweet Punto. I’m looking forward to learning more.
This forum is a great find.
I have a fiat auto 1.2 2004 gifted to me 8 yrs ago as the owner couldn’t be bothered to repair it has been wonderful.
I currently paid an engineer to come to reroute the immobiliser I need a replacement ecu apparently
I probably stupidly Paid him he went off for a part and he has now gone awol so I’m investigating myself to mend.
Onward and upward folks this car deserves better.

 

[bugsymike]

Any advice on: ecu location

sometimes you are pushed out of your comfort zone and have to learn new skills due to lack of funds i am now trying to repair my 21 year old sweet Punto. I’m looking forward to learning more.
This forum is a great find.
I have a fiat auto 1.2 2004 gifted to me 8 yrs ago as the owner couldn’t be bothered to repair it has been wonderful.
I currently paid an engineer to come to reroute the immobiliser I need a replacement ecu apparently
I probably stupidly Paid him he went off for a part and he has now gone awol so I’m investigating myself to mend.
Onward and upward folks this car deserves better.

This may be a bit of a problem for you re a replacement ECU, unless you buy an expensive brand new one or a "viginised" second hand one from a specialist, even if you locate a correct type of ECU for you model second hand , it will not run as the Immobiliser side, chipped keys etc. will not match the replacement.
It may be a good idea to speak to a professional ECU specialist.
When you say you paid an "engineer" to reroute your immobiliser side, do you mean the car wouldn't start at that point anyway?
Incidentally when you said a fiat auto 1.2, did you mean an automatic car as that ECU will be different from one for a manual gearbox car?
The ECU may look something like this photo below, others on Forum will know exactly re position etc. But on a 2006 Fiat Grande Punto 1.3MJ I worked on for one of my daughters, it was positioned on the drivers side inner wing in the engine compartment and if you say the "engineer" removed it, then you will be looking for a pair of multi pin plugs hanging loose that plugged into the original ECU.
Did he take the keys as well as they would match that missing ECU or anything else from the car?