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Right need to get a repair done on a Mk6 fiesta ecu. Car is a 2005 1.4 petrol and had a coil pack issue that damaged the ecu (a known problem).
ECU testing, ECU Technologies and ECU Solutions Wales all come up with a price of £150 to £235 to get the unit tested and repaired which keeps the coding for the key etc. as opposed to £800 to £1,200 which is nearly what the car is worth for a Ford replacement.
Also does anyone know if it is as plug and play (except for the potential for some diagnostic code clearing afterwards) as the companies indicate? Can anyone with experience of carrying out this procedure advise of any issues to be aware of?
Has any one got any experience of these companies or any others, I have tried looking on line to see reviews?
ECU Testing (has some negative reviews but a lot of positive ones).
ECU Solutions South Wales (has some very bad reviews on Volvo and Benz forums).
ECU Technologies (I cant find any reviews for but the accounts are on line and they appear to have been trading at a good level since being setup in 2001).
Cheers
ECU testing, ECU Technologies and ECU Solutions Wales all come up with a price of £150 to £235 to get the unit tested and repaired which keeps the coding for the key etc. as opposed to £800 to £1,200 which is nearly what the car is worth for a Ford replacement.
Also does anyone know if it is as plug and play (except for the potential for some diagnostic code clearing afterwards) as the companies indicate? Can anyone with experience of carrying out this procedure advise of any issues to be aware of?
Has any one got any experience of these companies or any others, I have tried looking on line to see reviews?
ECU Testing (has some negative reviews but a lot of positive ones).
ECU Solutions South Wales (has some very bad reviews on Volvo and Benz forums).
ECU Technologies (I cant find any reviews for but the accounts are on line and they appear to have been trading at a good level since being setup in 2001).
Cheers
I think I used ECU testing to repair a Ford Fiesta coil pack drivers 3 years ago (same as yours I think). It was about £150.
Simply remove, post, and you'll get it back fixed. You then fit and forget. Absolute piece of piss and saved a fortune.
Simply remove, post, and you'll get it back fixed. You then fit and forget. Absolute piece of piss and saved a fortune.
Edited by Prof Prolapse on Tuesday 3rd January 11:54
Have you priced an ecu set from a breakers. Usually compromise of ecu ignition barrel door barrels and whatever electrical bits needed to get the car running. On the other hand ecu repair is fairly common practice now we trews company in the republic albeit for forktruck ecu repair and have never had an issue with a repaired unit
Bdevo3 said:
Have you priced an ecu set from a breakers. Usually compromise of ecu ignition barrel door barrels and whatever electrical bits needed to get the car running.
Compared to a price of £150 for a plug-and-play guaranteed solution, why are you even suggesting that? Even if I got the complete set for nothing I would still rather pay £150 for an ECU swap than waste a day removing and replacing door cards and steering cowlings as well, with the added hassle that you will still get error messages in the guage display because the mileage in the ECU won't match the number stored in the dials.r11co said:
Bdevo3 said:
Have you priced an ecu set from a breakers. Usually compromise of ecu ignition barrel door barrels and whatever electrical bits needed to get the car running.
Compared to a price of £150 for a plug-and-play guaranteed solution, why are you even suggesting that? Even if I got the complete set for nothing I would still rather pay £150 for an ECU swap than waste a day removing and replacing door cards and steering cowlings as well, with the added hassle that you will still get error messages in the guage display because the mileage in the ECU won't match the number stored in the dials.
Just to finish this topic off, went with ECU Testing who were brilliant, texted every step of the way to advise progress. Had it back within 4 working days, plugged it in and it worked straight away.
Lifetime warranty as long as I replaced the coil pack before fitting and a reminder sticker over the multi plug to ensure I didn't forget.
No diagnostic check required and recognised the key straight away.
Cost: Repair £150 plus VAT, Postage £10 plus VAT and my postage £10,so about £200 all in, compared to an indicative price of £800 to £1000 plus VAT from local garage for a full replacement unit and recode from Ford.
Coli Pack £25 and Battery £50 from local factor so back on the road for £300.
Very Happy Son as car only worth £1500 to £1800 making a £1000 plus VAT repair plus coil pack and battery from the garage not worth while.
Lifetime warranty as long as I replaced the coil pack before fitting and a reminder sticker over the multi plug to ensure I didn't forget.
No diagnostic check required and recognised the key straight away.
Cost: Repair £150 plus VAT, Postage £10 plus VAT and my postage £10,so about £200 all in, compared to an indicative price of £800 to £1000 plus VAT from local garage for a full replacement unit and recode from Ford.
Coli Pack £25 and Battery £50 from local factor so back on the road for £300.
Very Happy Son as car only worth £1500 to £1800 making a £1000 plus VAT repair plus coil pack and battery from the garage not worth while.
.....malfunction in the ECU in my early model MGF, contacted BBA Reman on the advice of the autoelectrian, but they did not have the part number ((Rover) on their system.
I used ECU Technologies who provided excellent service, turned the unit round in 2.5 working days for a total cost of £160 including my postage.....on contacting them through the website they replied within an hour to confirm they could handle the unit, telephoned on receipt the following morning to confirm that could fix and despatched the same day. Plugged in and played.....
A new unit from Rimmer Bros is costed at approx £230, but that comes with the added thrills of reprogramming the unit, sorting the immobiliser and reprogramming key fobs etc etc.
Its a no brainier really and I’m very happy with the service
I used ECU Technologies who provided excellent service, turned the unit round in 2.5 working days for a total cost of £160 including my postage.....on contacting them through the website they replied within an hour to confirm they could handle the unit, telephoned on receipt the following morning to confirm that could fix and despatched the same day. Plugged in and played.....
A new unit from Rimmer Bros is costed at approx £230, but that comes with the added thrills of reprogramming the unit, sorting the immobiliser and reprogramming key fobs etc etc.
Its a no brainier really and I’m very happy with the service
I've had two Merc ECU's fixed by the people on the Isle of Wight (name escapes me but can't be many there to choose from) a good few years ago.
The email address was something like carelect.demon if that gives a clue.
They ain't cheap though, but i learned a valuable lesson with the second ECU.
Trying to save some dosh i looked around and found a bod with an all signing all dancing website, cheaper quote too, so sent it off, next thing message from him that the unit is scrap and should he bin it for me to save me the postage...er no mate send it back, the parts in those older ecus are like rocking horse poo no prizes for guessing what his game was.
Found another place, sent it, they 'tested' it and could find nothing wrong, so it was either beyond them or they make a few quid 'testing'.
So once again resigned myself to contacting the IoW lads, which i should have done in the first place, sent the unit off, it came back fully fixed and is still on the car working fine 15 years later.
Quality work doesn't come cheap, those Merc ecu's ran about £1200 then plus individual to specific car if yopu had the red/green lights in the door and boot handles showing if you've locked or unlocked the car, so no good finding a breaker and i was already a grand down due to the engine wiring loom bio-degrading (they all do that by the way) which caused shorts from the coil packs and spiked the ecu into the bargain.
The email address was something like carelect.demon if that gives a clue.
They ain't cheap though, but i learned a valuable lesson with the second ECU.
Trying to save some dosh i looked around and found a bod with an all signing all dancing website, cheaper quote too, so sent it off, next thing message from him that the unit is scrap and should he bin it for me to save me the postage...er no mate send it back, the parts in those older ecus are like rocking horse poo no prizes for guessing what his game was.
Found another place, sent it, they 'tested' it and could find nothing wrong, so it was either beyond them or they make a few quid 'testing'.
So once again resigned myself to contacting the IoW lads, which i should have done in the first place, sent the unit off, it came back fully fixed and is still on the car working fine 15 years later.
Quality work doesn't come cheap, those Merc ecu's ran about £1200 then plus individual to specific car if yopu had the red/green lights in the door and boot handles showing if you've locked or unlocked the car, so no good finding a breaker and i was already a grand down due to the engine wiring loom bio-degrading (they all do that by the way) which caused shorts from the coil packs and spiked the ecu into the bargain.
Changed their name to Avilec a while ago.
Current website: http://www.avilec.co.uk/
The website seems to have a lot of stuff that doesn't function which begs the question of whether they are still in business.
Their original site had some very good fault finding 'how tos' but that no longer works which is a pity.
Current website: http://www.avilec.co.uk/
The website seems to have a lot of stuff that doesn't function which begs the question of whether they are still in business.
Their original site had some very good fault finding 'how tos' but that no longer works which is a pity.
Avilec are still in business, fixed my rather old ECU at the beginning of the year. Had an intermittent fault which evaded me for a few months. Spoke to a guy called Alan over WhatsApp and said send it in after explaining what was going on, it "hicupped" on their test rig and replaced the components. Car has run fine since, well worth the money I paid which was £312 returned to me.
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