Thread: Discovery 2 ecu

First question... a bit more detail about your discovery would help eg year, petrol or diesel, manual or auto.

Secondly and I may stand corrected by those more knowledgeable, it is possible, depending on the ECU to put in a new one in, but you will need diagnostic equipment like a nanocom to program it.

Thirdly, I would be digging deeper into the car to determine what caused the ecu to fry before putting another in. Sounds like a decent short somewhere.

Forthly welcome to the forum.

Cheers

Steve

Originally Posted by Peakey

Hi just after some info on the ecu in my discovery it has just died and was smoking it's burnt out how would I go about replacing it without having to put a $950 ECU and take the car 400km from where it is to get it done? Any info would be grateful

Whereabouts are you?

$950 is a fair bit for an ecu I would have thought

even mine didnt cost that much,,

show us pics of the burnt ecm,,,
isnt failure usually from water?

Have you tried searching up the part number from your ECU on eBay?

I have a 99 discovery 2 td5 diesel auto. The ecu I got told had the upgrades so the performance stuff done to it

That's definitely cooked. I'm guessing it's an MSB ECU. You can get a later model NNN ECU which can be remapped by a nanocom. Shouldn't cost you more then $400 to buy the later model ECU. But first you might need to figure out why your ECU cooked like that!

I had an ECU cook after a earth lead wasn't attached to engine and it used the handbrake cable as an earth that nearly caused a fire, the smoldering hand brake short cooked my ECU. V8 D2 that was

Ok thanks guys yer my ecu is a MSB not sure why it cooked. Might have been all the oil in the plug but will have to look in to it a bit more and make sure the wires are good thanks again been a grate help