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[Marks DTM Calib]

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Astra-G was never fitted with the Bosch Motronic 2.8.1/3 ECU though

True!  and apparently Astra G's ECUs do fail.

I've heard of faults on the Siemens ones

What do you expect from Siemens, now there is a shite company thats completely lost its way 

[Andy B]

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Z16XE can suffer an issue (Simtec I think), £300 to get them repaired, the ignition coil driver fails on them

Yes. It was one of them. I think he paid around £150 for his to be repaired  :-/

[TheBoy]

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Astra-G was never fitted with the Bosch Motronic 2.8.1/3 ECU though

True!  and apparently Astra G's ECUs do fail.

I've heard of faults on the Siemens ones

What do you expect from Siemens, now there is a shite company thats completely lost its way 

Is now a good time to mention that OOF runs through Siemens routers

[Andy B]

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Astra-G was never fitted with the Bosch Motronic 2.8.1/3 ECU though

True!  and apparently Astra G's ECUs do fail.

I've heard of faults on the Siemens ones

What do you expect from Siemens, now there is a shite company thats completely lost its way 

Is now a good time to mention that OOF runs through Siemens routers

 

[albitz]

Im fairly sure I saw an ECU with keys etc. on fleabay in the last few days.

[albitz]

not sure if a 3.0 version isany good. :-/
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-OMEGA-3-0-ECU-TRANSPONDER-2-KEYS-BARREL-/220761472612?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item336668be64

[2woody]

I can only echo the earlier views.....

In all of my time working on literally thousands of cars, I have never seen a Bosch engine ECU fail. I would be prepared to put money on this one not having failed, too. I can recall an ecu on one vehicle having remained serviceable even when having been underwater for long enough to the mounts to have rusted off.

what's probably happened here is that the garage have tried to rectify a fault on the vehicle that they can't understand and just blamed the ecu.

for what it's worth, I've worked on maybe twenty cars where the ecu has been reported as broken and have fixed all of them without changing the ecu.

[feeutfo]

What's the original fault/symptoms?

[andyc]

Someones wants an Ar8e kicking. An OE ECU exchange is listed at £1247.00 + £70.00 Old Unit Surcharge and VAT

Andy

[SJKOO01]

Thanks for the advice all 

Just wanted to see if it was true or myth that you needed to swap the software over from one ecu to another.

I've told the chap that next time to call me with a problem, if I can't help I may know one or two with Omega's that maybe able to help    .

Also told him to join here if he wants to as well, though not sure if he will as the way he was chatting he sounded like once the problems sorted he wants to get rid off because of all the hassle (yes I know what you're all going to say about once it's back on the road, etc etc    ) but it's not my car.

I'll try to track down an ECU, key, transponder off someone on here if their breaking a car with it all on, like others have said will be cheaper.

As for the originally problem, I'm not sure.  Amongst the cursing, something about starting problems, but as that's a no go now to sort that out, it could of been anything ? :-? .

[I_want_an_Omega]

I've got a 2.5 ECU with a single chip somewhere if your mate is interested its from a '98 2.5 V6 Auto

[SJKOO01]

Well the story unfolds even more and I must of had a bit of a blonde moment  from the original conversation.

Turns out it isn't a V6, he had a v6.

This car is in fact a 2.2 4cyl petrol, I've just spoken to him regarding the car and it pretty much sounds like the garage mechanics need a kicking (don't know what they’re doing!).  The chap has said that they still have the car and their now saying there's an immobiliser problem (I can see where this story is going  ).

Anyhow if it can’t be fixed the chaps said he's going to scrap it as it owes him too much money now.

All I can say is apologises to all for helping, though it wasn't a v6, the problem of the ecu was still as my originally thread.
Sorry for getting mucking fuddled about the whole issue.

Teach me to lesson more to what people are saying and I feel embarassed about it now  :-/.

[Lazydocker]

Well the story unfolds even more and I must of had a bit of a blonde moment  from the original conversation.

Turns out it isn't a V6, he had a v6.

This car is in fact a 2.2 4cyl petrol, I've just spoken to him regarding the car and it pretty much sounds like the garage mechanics need a kicking (don't know what they’re doing!).  The chap has said that they still have the car and their now saying there's an immobiliser problem (I can see where this story is going  ).

Anyhow if it can’t be fixed the chaps said he's going to scrap it as it owes him too much money now.

All I can say is apologises to all for helping, though it wasn't a v6, the problem of the ecu was still as my originally thread.
Sorry for getting mucking fuddled about the whole issue.

Teach me to lesson more to what people are saying and I feel embarassed about it now  :-/.

Even a 2.2... I doubt the problem was the ECU

Just as a thought... The chip is still in place in the key isn't it?

[SJKOO01]

As the cars still at the garage I'm unfortunately not able to get to see it and check things like this.

If it doesn't get sorted and he ends up having back at his place I can perhaps take a look to see what they've done and check a few things such as the key.

Got a feeling this little story is going to drag on though.

[aaronjb]

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Astra-G was never fitted with the Bosch Motronic 2.8.1/3 ECU though

True!  and apparently Astra G's ECUs do fail.

I've heard of faults on the Siemens ones

What do you expect from Siemens, now there is a shite company thats completely lost its way 

Is now a good time to mention that OOF runs through Siemens routers

Apparently so does the BBC website ..