ECU Failures

[kinetic]

I am considering buying another Noble to do some track day stuff with. BUT I originally had an (02) 2.5L that suffered ECU failure and I personally knew of at least two other people who had the same problem at the time.

I need to know whether this problem is still an issue with Nobles at all because it obviously can prove very expensive if the cars out of warranty.

Has this problem been resolved? have any of you with later model cars suffered ECU problems at all?

[V6GTO]

I certainly havn't. ('04 3R)

Martin.

[m12_nathan]

I believe any car with an MBE ecu will be fine.

[DanH]

Get one with the new ECU if going for a 2.5 imho!

[joust]

The original ECU's suffered from the company making them going bust and hence any issues required a new one.

The later MBE units are used in a huge amount of cars worldwide and are of significantly better design than the originals.

You'll be fine therefore with any "new" car.

J

[obes]

I had an ECU fail on mine (early 2.5) and AFAIK the problem affected 2.5's and early 3's. The problem units are Magnetti Marelli ones. If its got MBE it will be OK.

[m12_nathan]

I have one of the early 3L cars and it has an MBE ecu, I don't think any 3L car has the MM ecu.

[Siban]

I've got a late 2.5 (52) and it's got the MBE ECU installed. Not sure what date the swap happened from Magnetti to MBE, but there certainly are 2.5's with the revised ECU's.

I'm sure I've read several threads on this subject so a search of the archives will dig up the answer.

Cheers,

Simon.