Well,

Reached a verdict as to whats wrong with the car (posted on another thread), yep ecu blown. Now skoda have never had one of these blow on a Fabia vRS before so my garage has been requested to send the unit to them.

Initially they think that it may be the Head Unit or my Bluetooth Hands Free. Dont think that this is the case as its been fitted for 6 months. 600+ for the ecu from Skoda:eek:

Nightmare!!!!!!!

Has your ECU been remapped?

Not heard of a ECU just going. Heard of them being damaged when uploading a map. Think Jason had a problem sometime ago but think it was fixed with a reflash of the map. Not sure.

Electronic devices breakdown all the time. Just think of how many millions of transistors there are in the average CPU (a Pentium 4 processor has around 55 million individual transistors inside it :eek:). And then consider the fact that you're always just one transistor away from a breakdown...

A number of us 4X4 owners have had Haldex ECUs develop checksum errors, and the central control unit for the convenience system has proved troublesome for some members. The engine ECU is yet another ECU which can play up, although fortunately for the rest of us engine ECU failures of your magnitude are rare.

Ive also seen quite a few ABS ecus come up with check sum errors.

I just had an EEPROM die on a board I am working on, worked fine yesterday, dead this morning, no reason at all. It's at a stat safe bench and everything.

Anyway changed the EE and all is fine, these things happen with electronics sometimes.

Jabbasport mapped it for me, but i gave them a call and told them what Skoda said and their on the way down to pick the car up for me.

Super Jabba to the rescue.

Just to add the ecu has been mapped for a while before it blew (suposadly) and i dont hold jabba responsible at all, in fact I waldnt use anyone else.

Fair enough, good customer service there then.

Well Jabba arrived, and i took a look at the car for the first time.:eek:

Skoda engineer has broken most of the plastic cover that he'd taken off, and left the car in bits (wasnt a proper skoda garage was a saab with skoda service/repair). Hadnt even disconnected the battery to remove the ecu.

Anyhow, the issue would sem to be a hardware failure in the ecu, from what i heard the bit that controls the fuel pump.

So Jabba are putting a standard map back on the ECU so Skoda will replace it under warranty? :confused:

Chris

So Jabba are putting a standard map back on the ECU so Skoda will replace it under warranty? :confused:

Chris

No, Jabba are fixing the car full stop! ECU and the Map.

The current ecu cannot be contacted through the diagnostics port and Jabba have a spare ECU