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Default Engine Management Units

On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:54:23 -0800, wrote:

Best of luck with it - and, if you have "auto recycling yards" in your
neck of the woods, you might try getting an experimental unit there. It
will be cheap.


This is an issue I personally have with modern cars. If you pick up a
replacement unit from a junk yard and try to swap it out, it won't work
even if it's in perfect condition 'cos the EMU is coded to the injectors
(and god knows what else) so you need one of those fancy communication
tools (for big bucks) to re-set the codes so they match. It's a serious
PITA. Then you find the next time you need to do the same thing with a
different model or make, 99 times out of a 100 you need a different comms
tool for that. It's a costly nightmare.