Soldering stuff, anywhere in West Yorkshire area
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I have a pair of ECUs that have dodgy data on the flash chips. I have new chips/programmed up with good data but it's just getting them onto the ECUs. Most of the usual places that did some of this stuff don't seem to bother any more preferring to just buy used ECU's and clone data to them from the damaged one (possibly cheaper long run)
Does anyone know of anywhere in the Leeds area I could go with trusted electronics tinkerers/soldering pros (ie, doing it day in day out) who can swap some 29f400 chips over?
Was tempted to just find a well rated xbox/ps3 chipping kinda place as it'll be the same type of work, but even then it's a struggle to find anyone.
As soon as you go near Google with the word [bold]soldering[/bold] piles of job type websites appear and nothing for anywhere that will actual do soldering work hehe!
Any help much appreciated.
Dave
Does anyone know of anywhere in the Leeds area I could go with trusted electronics tinkerers/soldering pros (ie, doing it day in day out) who can swap some 29f400 chips over?
Was tempted to just find a well rated xbox/ps3 chipping kinda place as it'll be the same type of work, but even then it's a struggle to find anyone.
As soon as you go near Google with the word [bold]soldering[/bold] piles of job type websites appear and nothing for anywhere that will actual do soldering work hehe!
Any help much appreciated.
Dave
I needed the spoiler control module on my old 964 repairing and I struggles to find anywhere in Leeds. In the end I found a place tucked away in the back roads off Harehills Road but to be honest I wasn't overly impressed with the work. Try searching for car electrical repairs and see if that helps at all.
I could probably solder better myself with a little refresher/practice as I'd not be rushing if I did them DIY vs someone I paid, I guess...
As soon as you write 'car' in Google you just get people who plug laptops into cars, or most places just know someone they trust if they need soldering work (or send them for re-con)
Might try find a well regarded xbox360/ps3 chipping type place as it's a similar job all considered...
Dave
As soon as you write 'car' in Google you just get people who plug laptops into cars, or most places just know someone they trust if they need soldering work (or send them for re-con)
Might try find a well regarded xbox360/ps3 chipping type place as it's a similar job all considered...
Dave
I'm having a go tonight with a friend so hopefully won't need to resort to soldering.
Sorely tempted to get some kit now just for general repairs/tinkering. It's amazing how much soldering seems to be the preserve of last measure these days, probably because of labour costs and assurance of a working repair that it's cheaper to just replace.
Crazy world!
Fixing stuff for the win... that is more manly than replacing stuff
Dave
Sorely tempted to get some kit now just for general repairs/tinkering. It's amazing how much soldering seems to be the preserve of last measure these days, probably because of labour costs and assurance of a working repair that it's cheaper to just replace.
Crazy world!
Fixing stuff for the win... that is more manly than replacing stuff
Dave
Let us know how you get on with it. This should be easily possible if you have some decent soldering gear and know what your doing. Getting the old chips off cleanly without damaging the ECU PCB is the hard bit.
Im wondering what you were doing so that you would need to do put new chips on? Home remapping perhaps, remapping via ODB??
I am assuming that you want to replace the flash chip on an E85 M54B30/N52B30 ECU PCB? Its important to have good tools and a little experience for this as you wouldnt want to rip up a few tracks and make the ECU unusable.
Anyway, I'm in Leeds and work at a Electronics company (im an electronics design engineer). We do have one person soldering all day everyday, normally soldering surface mount parts. We have hot air rework tools, soldering irons etc...
I might be able to help if you really get stuck.
Im wondering what you were doing so that you would need to do put new chips on? Home remapping perhaps, remapping via ODB??
I am assuming that you want to replace the flash chip on an E85 M54B30/N52B30 ECU PCB? Its important to have good tools and a little experience for this as you wouldnt want to rip up a few tracks and make the ECU unusable.
Anyway, I'm in Leeds and work at a Electronics company (im an electronics design engineer). We do have one person soldering all day everyday, normally soldering surface mount parts. We have hot air rework tools, soldering irons etc...
I might be able to help if you really get stuck.
Edited by BenGismo on Thursday 10th January 21:05
Hi guys, cheers for the replies!
Ben, the fix is on an EDC15C2, the owner remapped via OBD but wrote a zip file... ooopsie.
He had hired a local tuner to help who wasn't any help, so I said I'd help him get the ECU working.
In the end it was just loaded up with the ECU open and boot mode set on the processor, then written via a serial emulation through an MPPS tool.
I did have another to fix too, not sure what is wrong with that one but I have a feeling it's to do with immo coding or OBD access seed key damage (a pro tuner with their fancy £10,000 slave tool appears to have locked all OBD access to the processor except in boot mode over k-line)
Still working on that one haha.
Hopefully still no soldering required at this stage, but great to know of a last resort
As per soldering on the MS45 ECU, yeah, that wouldn't be ideal. I'll be using BDM to make a back up and do read/write work on that, then worst case if something does go awry I can "just" clone the ECU... not sure if that might just be another nightmare or not. It's the EWS stuff on my car that worries me!
Dave
Ben, the fix is on an EDC15C2, the owner remapped via OBD but wrote a zip file... ooopsie.
He had hired a local tuner to help who wasn't any help, so I said I'd help him get the ECU working.
In the end it was just loaded up with the ECU open and boot mode set on the processor, then written via a serial emulation through an MPPS tool.
I did have another to fix too, not sure what is wrong with that one but I have a feeling it's to do with immo coding or OBD access seed key damage (a pro tuner with their fancy £10,000 slave tool appears to have locked all OBD access to the processor except in boot mode over k-line)
Still working on that one haha.
Hopefully still no soldering required at this stage, but great to know of a last resort
As per soldering on the MS45 ECU, yeah, that wouldn't be ideal. I'll be using BDM to make a back up and do read/write work on that, then worst case if something does go awry I can "just" clone the ECU... not sure if that might just be another nightmare or not. It's the EWS stuff on my car that worries me!
Dave
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