Thread: TD5 Disco Chip

[quote=DEFENDERZOOK]<span style="color:blue">has anyone priced a second hand ecu.....?</span>

They come up on ebay.co.uk fairly often, someone was bidding for one off the forum, I think it ended up going for between 100-150 pounds
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Land-Rover-Discovery...1QQcmdZViewItem

80 pounds - that was td5 auto.

Cheers
Simon

[quote=DEFENDERZOOK]<span style="color:blue">has anyone priced a second hand ecu.....?</span>

New ECU is $1100.00 better to do this than get one which is full of crud or stuffed. Testbook cannot reset an old ECU for a new vehicle.

As for Upgrades, Yes, your LR dealer can flash over your nice program so be sure to request they dont or your dollars are gone.

Otherwise. Pre 02 are hard programmed eg. chip resoldered in and cannot be flashed over. If you have one of these your laughing!

Cheers
Mike

<span style="color:blue">i was just thinking of swapping ecus before sending the car to the dealer....

no chance of them stuffing up your settings then....</span>

Hi all ,

DEFENDERZOOK , good idea on swapping ECU before sending to dealer .

Did some search on the net and found that some flashing / remapping / upgrading of the ECU work can have the original file chq sum still stay the same and therefore the T4 testbook cannot detect it .

While others , like Tombraider said , the dealer can flash over your remapped work or causes ECU faults to show in diagnostic page at service time ie, too much fuel .

Ta