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sharky

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abs ecu repairs
« on: 29 July 2009, 15:32:34 »
Hi ;D

Can anyone recommend a decent abs ecu repair company please, be taking mine off soon, found a company in London called ecu-repairs.com, anyone used them? or seen another called 'bba reman'

Cheers :y
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Re: abs ecu repairs
« Reply #1 on: 29 July 2009, 17:58:18 »
As posted on numerous occasions .. I used bba-reman and was very happy with them...

tel : 01634 687222
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Re: abs ecu repairs
« Reply #2 on: 29 July 2009, 22:23:24 »
there is a thread here on bba-reman -

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1246738987/0
« Last Edit: 29 July 2009, 22:25:21 by tuckshop »
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Re: abs ecu repairs
« Reply #3 on: 21 August 2009, 14:57:05 »
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As posted on numerous occasions .. I used bba-reman and was very happy with them...

tel : 01634 687222

My local garage just phoned to say BBA reman quoted £140 (including postage) to repair ecu, so garage should get in Monday to refit, will update when refitted (fingers crossed no more probs) :y
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Re: abs ecu repairs
« Reply #4 on: 21 August 2009, 18:05:51 »
i had problems with mine last week.Took it to BBA and got it back in less than 2 working days..but I do live within walking distance of them...cost me £100=00 + vat so hope yours is done as quick..curious to know how much your garage charged to remove and refit,as mine had to remove the entire pump assembly and rebleed brakes as plug would not slide across.
Best of luck with it and post up the results.
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Re: abs ecu repairs
« Reply #5 on: 25 August 2009, 15:29:25 »
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i had problems with mine last week.Took it to BBA and got it back in less than 2 working days..but I do live within walking distance of them...cost me £100=00 + vat so hope yours is done as quick..curious to know how much your garage charged to remove and refit,as mine had to remove the entire pump assembly and rebleed brakes as plug would not slide across.
Best of luck with it and post up the results.

Car is now done, picking it up tonight, garage said all the lights are now off and speedo working.....
Costs: £138 + vat ecu repair, inc carriage (BBA reman), *Labour to remove and re fit £80 + vat (2hrs total) + brake fluid, Ellis motors, Burgess Hill , west sussex.
*that was taking off pump and ecu.

All in all a good price ;D, but not counting chickens yet until I drive it for a week or so as have read on some posts of some problems occuring even after repair!!!!! :-?
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Re: abs ecu repairs
« Reply #6 on: 25 August 2009, 15:41:54 »
Lets hope it all works as new.Mine has been on now for just a week and hasn,t missed a beat...that is a very good deal for the labour...2 hours total,so they only charged an hour to remove and an hour to refit ?did you use the car in between repairs then ,as my garage charged me 3 hours to remove and refit pump without ecu..then another 3 hours to remove ecu when repaired and refit,but I did have the entire brake system bleed through 2 times and coolant so accept a bit more.Yours was a very good deal then .
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Re: abs ecu repairs
« Reply #7 on: 25 August 2009, 15:47:07 »
I wonder how much remanufacturing BBA need to do to resurect the ECU?

My wife bought a 10 year old / 100K miles Golf a couple of months ago. The central locking had a mind of its own. After reading up on VW enthusiasts sites I took the door locks apart and resoldered half a dozen fractured joints on the pcb's. As well restoring the door locking all sorts of courtesy lights started working that we didn't realise were there.

The theory is that lead free solder is less tolerant of stresses and strains than traditional solder. Maybe this is the problem with the ABS ECU?
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Re: abs ecu repairs
« Reply #8 on: 25 August 2009, 16:12:34 »
The failure is known: failure of a very small wire from the connector to the substrate containing the electronics. I guess BBA don't have to do much for their money but having the equipment required to make the repair (it's not a "soldering iron from Maplins" job), test the ECU and seal it up again is worth the cost.

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Re: abs ecu repairs
« Reply #9 on: 25 August 2009, 16:26:31 »
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Lets hope it all works as new.Mine has been on now for just a week and hasn,t missed a beat...that is a very good deal for the labour...2 hours total,so they only charged an hour to remove and an hour to refit ?did you use the car in between repairs then ,as my garage charged me 3 hours to remove and refit pump without ecu..then another 3 hours to remove ecu when repaired and refit,but I did have the entire brake system bleed through 2 times and coolant so accept a bit more.Yours was a very good deal then .

Thats right 1hr to remove 1hr to refit!!!! ;D
No I didn't drive it as I had a work van I could use, so garage keeped for the entire time. :y
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Re: abs ecu repairs
« Reply #10 on: 28 August 2009, 12:02:24 »
Right, so far so good, had no problems, so nice to have full power steering back and my speedo!!!! ;D (although I got quite good/lucky at judging speed past speed camera's :D ;)
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Re: abs ecu repairs
« Reply #11 on: 28 August 2009, 14:23:21 »
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The failure is known: failure of a very small wire from the connector to the substrate containing the electronics. I guess BBA don't have to do much for their money but having the equipment required to make the repair (it's not a "soldering iron from Maplins" job), test the ECU and seal it up again is worth the cost.

Kevin
The ECU on the mid eighties GPZ1100 used to suffer from exactly the same problem, brought about once the rubber mounts became hard.
Fortunately, fixing them was a soldering iron job (although not a "Maplin's cheap chinese crap" one costing £9.99).
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Re: abs ecu repairs
« Reply #12 on: 29 August 2009, 04:49:55 »
the cruise control computer on the senators and carltons used to stop working or drop out of cruise for no reason, it was nothing more than dry joints. all you had to do was open it up look for the big capacitors at the front, warm up both legs of each one till the solder melted. and refit. done. worked happily everafter. just to be sure can do every joint in there! the new stuff is more complicated but if i were going to try it i would use a heatsink to protect chips etc
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Re: abs ecu repairs
« Reply #13 on: 29 August 2009, 13:54:03 »
 i used these recently found them really good and they seem to have a great turn around and where helpful on the phone to :) :)
ECU Testing LTD.
23A Church Street
Eastwood
Nottingham
NG16 3HP
United Kingdom

Tel: ++44(0)1773535638
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