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[RichardH]

The GM Red anti-freeze is €8 a litre here at Irish dealers.  Like everything else, it's a rip off compared to the UK.

[Rog the Dodge]

Blimey, thats not good, i can confirm that the GM anti freeze,93165162 is indeed £12.30 plus the vat .
But my joy was soon short lived!!!
I had to price up a new ECU............!
£882 plus the vat., oh Dear

[Andy B]

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I had to price up a new ECU............!
£882 plus the vat., oh Dear

Why? Which?
ECU's rarely die ....... though Vx wil tell you do.  :-/

[Rog the Dodge]

I had to get towed back as the engine just died on me while going up a hill,so next day i had a closer look ,all that was happening was when i turnned the key the throttle housing was just clicking, sounded like it could not find its position.
So i called out a chap with his magic box,only to find that it would not read or even talk to the ECU.
He suggested that the throttle housing maybe faulty, so i managed to get another one and fitted it, same thing happened,just clicking.
Car will only start with the throttle disconnected.
Any ideas?

[TheBoy]

doubt thats an ecu fault.  needs to go on a code reader, and have an operator who knows what he is doing

[Rog the Dodge]

The tech guy is an ex Vauxhall auto technician,his diagnostic gear would not look at my ecu.So while he was here he fitted a new one just to test the car(coils etc were fine befor we switched on).Car fired up first click, with a workin throttle .So its lookin like i just was a little un lucky then.
I did check with him to see what had caused the fault, but he could only give me ,it was bad luck, they do go once in a while !!!!(vauxhall trainned maybe?)

[Big_Roger]

Hi,
I think you need to start a new thread here, more aligned to ECU problem than which anti freeze.

If it is so sure it's an ECU problem, then I would be contacting someone like BB Reman for a repair quote before I paid out over £1000 for new ECU.

HTH

Roger

[Rog the Dodge]

Yeah i did go of track a little,no need to start new thread on the ECU,new one fitted to night and up and running.