Breakers yards?

[Nic]

As my VTR is f*cked basically, a few people have hinted that it may be the ECU and have been told to look on ebay an breakers yards for one (in case thats what it is an needs replacing) but there's only one on Ebay an is £500, so does anyone know any sites for breakers yards etc that may be able to help me?

I don't have a clue where to look lol

[Mark]

£500 for an ECU Get a VTS engine for not much more.
There are a few crap yards over here, have a look in the phone book. Shouldnt be too hard to find a crashed Saxo

[Nic]

Well it wasn't just the ECU, it was a whole new engine, there wasn't just an ECU on there

But I got a quote from Eurocars - £601 + VAT (which includes fitting too) hence why i'm looking for a breakers yard

Also are they hard to fit? can it be done by an amateur or will it need to go to a garage to be fitted? ain't got a damn clue about these things lol

[The Mofo]

Try Brian Cartmell's place down hillberry he'll probably have something down there.

Best to get a professional fit the ECU.

[chaz]

Ive never heard of a ecu failing on any saxo.

Have you actually had ur vtr plugged into a diagnostic machine???

whats actually wrong with it???

Does it not start?? stall all the time??

more details please

[Nic]

Yeah i've had it pugged into the diagnostics machine an nothing is showing up, it all started months an months ago the revs started dropping an then sometimes they'd drop so much it'd cut out an other times it wouldnt start unless my foot was on the accelerator so i took it to eurocars an they looked at it an put it on the doagnostics an took it for a drive an said 'nope, nothing wrong with it' an charged me £96 but it still carried on but was bearable, but recently its gotten worse an about 4 weeks ago it cut out coming down towards the Creg an refused to go an basically the rest of the story is on here...

http://www.iomcars.net/forum/phpBB2/vie ... 7&start=60

[The Mofo]

Sounds like the air/fuel mix, Lambda sensor? Map Sensor?

The S2000 has had this problem recently, seems to be in relation to the warmer weather, sometimes it won't tick over properly other times it won't accelerate properly until it hits vtec, in this case it is the MAP sensor.

[gav_link]

my friend has a micra wich is also suffering the same problem, shes had it in the garage loads of times but they dont know whats wrong, the bloke even drove it around for 1000 miles and it never did it to him once but as soon as she got it back it started cutting out again!!

i know this doesnt help you but thought id share the story

[Claridge]

the only time the diagnostic plug wouldnt work on my car is when i have the wrong engine wiring loom and there was no power going to it, have they checked the wiring, might be a dodgy connection or an earth or summit.

[Nic]

Whole thing has been rewired when he had it last week apparently