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[Badger]

Hi all, hope you had a nice christmas. You may remember my 'scary' fault code list thread. Well vauxhall have diagnosed a stuffed ecu. Personally I don't believe them. They have quoted me 550quid plus vat and fitting for a new one, when I asked them if they were absolutely sure that the ecu has failed they said ' well it looks it's that'. A friend who used to work for vauxhall has told me that the ecus never fail, they have never sold one.
 My question is, would an ecu from a breaker work o.k as I have heard that they cannot be reprogrammed? I am not going to spend 550+vat on a maybe, I reckon they can't be arsed to trace the fault so they always blame the ecu.
 I have more or less given up with this car and have bought a Volvo but I would still like to fix the Omega as it is worthless as it is.
 Happy New Year all.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Send it away for repair.....the charge to test the ECU is quite reasonable.

I still say the ECU will be fine!

[Badger]

Yeah Mark, I agree with you, I reckon the ecu is fine. Partco will test the ecu for 25quid, if it's faulty they can repair them apparently. If the ecu turns out to be fine then I'm completely stuffed, virtually every sensor on the engine has been replaced, I simply don't know what to do next. You said a while ago to check the 0volt connection on the intake manifold, I can't seem to find it. Could you tell me where it is please?
 Thanks.