Hannah's brother owns a throughly bland ford focus- W reg. It stopped starting (or failed to start..?) the other day and AA man spotted a loose wire- which was meant to have a home.
Joe, her brother, fiddled with this and that and reinstalled wire. I think in the process he may have let the smoke out of something that he shouldn't have.
It now fails to start. He took it to local mechanic and he reckons it the ecu. So ECU was posted to ECU testing in Derbyshire. They have just sent it back with a cover note basically they cannot reinstall the smoke into which ever important thing the shouldnt have let it out of.
So I think a 'known to be good' \ECU is needed.
My questions today are..
Where would i find a good second hand unit and what price to pay for one?
Whats involved with getting it recoded and how much to expect tp pay at local ford branch?
Anything else i should try?
cheers all.
alex
Joe, her brother, fiddled with this and that and reinstalled wire. I think in the process he may have let the smoke out of something that he shouldn't have.
It now fails to start. He took it to local mechanic and he reckons it the ecu. So ECU was posted to ECU testing in Derbyshire. They have just sent it back with a cover note basically they cannot reinstall the smoke into which ever important thing the shouldnt have let it out of.So I think a 'known to be good' \ECU is needed.
My questions today are..
Where would i find a good second hand unit and what price to pay for one?
Whats involved with getting it recoded and how much to expect tp pay at local ford branch?
Anything else i should try?
cheers all.
alex
I have warned him in the past 
