ecu

Been offered a mk3 cupra with no ECU for a really good price. Thinking about getting it as i may be able to source a remapped ecu. Do you guys think this isa good idea or could a lot of problems erupt? Thecupra has no ecu because it was damaged with water.

hiya recently bought a LCR and joined this site, V. good site and LOVE the car! fitted a forge DV the other day with a pipercross airfilter, all was good for a few days, but today a engine warning light came on..... any ideas how to solve this?????or what has caused it....? could it b due to the...

Hi all, does n e 1 no if u can turn the engine managment light off wid out going to a garage as i have repaired the fault.!!!:(

Hiya, on thursday i had warning light on dash for ECU so managed to drive to independent garage on max 1900 revs. diagnositics stated it was coil on cylinder 2 after showing on 3 originally and garage swapped coil to test in number 2. so replaced coil pack. when i picked the car up on drive...

hey. the garage took my ECU out and never bothered putting it back. i know that there are two large connectors at the front which connect to the ECU. I have also found another cable going around to the back of the ECU holder. its quite thick and has a round connector on the end. I cant see...

As the title says - does anyone know of any companies that supply the units but not at ridiculous SEAT prices???? Ian

hey, i need a new ECU for my car, is there any chance this can be done through VAG-COM? if so, anyone in the Middlesbrough/ Hartlepool area able to do this for me?? they will be doing me a massive favour! and lager/money can be exchanged!!!

right, my ecu is damaged beyond repair. anyone have an idea on where and how much it will cost to get a new one?

hey. car was perfectly fine last night, no problems at all this morning started her up first time, but the radiator fan came on for about 3 seconds, then went off, then came on etc etc for over half an hour whilst i was driving! my MPG according to the computer was stuck at 5mpg, and my...

had engine fitted/ no spark no pulse or somethin to fuel rail. could they of locked the ecu.:help:

Well here goes after the garage fixed my sump they called to say it wont start it keeps stalling all the time but it did this to me about a month ago and i replaced the Key coil reader which goes around the barrel and it worked but now its doing it all over again the garage think it might have...

Just bought a Leon T cupra 52 plate and the ecu light was on when i went to look at it, the dealer said it was because it had been jump started but it came on again 5 miles down the road from garage. It also had a miss fire but only once in 3rd gear. If any one knows whats wrong it would...

Apparantly the ECU on my car is nackered!? Its a 02 plate 1.4 75bhp AMF engine. Now here goes, Seat want £1200 to replace the ECU and labour. I obv dont want to fork that out on a car thats worth £2 - 2.4K. Now has anyone ever had this problem before? Did you get a recon ECU or know anywhere...

ive had a search and it may be a stupid question but how do you do it, ive just replace the maf on the little ladys golf and read its worth resetting the ecu. cheers

Hi im not actually a Seat owner, I have a 306 gti-6, but my brother has a 2000 mk3 (i think) ibiza 3 door 1.4 cool, I have searched but cant find anything, if he bought a new ecu from the breakers would it be a bolt on and go job, or would it have problems with the imoberliser/key etc any help...

Hi. Wit so many on the market, I havn't a clue which to go for or works well with the 1.8T. I like the features of the Emerald. What have others used?

Hi guys, I was wondering if there was anybody out there that can help. I was looking to get the ECU remapped on my car, but the few people around northampton that do the remapping, have told me that they cant as "Seat have already done it as thats the reason to why there's an 85ps and 100ps 1.4...

hi all, strange problem with my car. i logged bloack 115 with my vag-com today. my car is leon cupra 180bhp auq engine,. I saw a strange thing, even at 4000rpm the max requested boost is 1300mbar and the turbo was giving 1380. now the thing is, when i deduct 1000mbar it means my ecu is...

Got a 2002 Cupra 180 bhp standard with 98k on it Had the excess pollution/diagnosis light come on the car last week, pulled over and restarted the car and it idled at 2000 rpm. It drove normally with no difference so I took it to my garage who checked it out and found a pipe between the...

hi. i have been offered a swap on my ecu for my mates whos is mapped up. his engine code and mine are different as the cars are different age and also does the ecu need to be coded to the car or anything llike that.. its not goin to be as easy as just swapping them over is it?