Sorry, that wasn't aimed at you at all, apologies if it came across like that. I was calling bullshit at the garage.
I'm just sick of seeing people taken for a ride by unscrupulous traders. They're relying on your lack of in-depth knowledge and feeding you complete nonsense to hide the fact they're charging you for stuff they don't need to, all because they don't know what the problem is. I mean what kind of garage keeps a spare, unlocked, converted ecu around just in case they get a car come in with a dead ecu - which incidentally is about a 1 in 5000 chance - so they can lend it out to customers so they get their car back for one day...? No business works like that, it's not feasible or prudent and it doesn't make business sense. Also, if they had to send it off to be fixed it would have taken at least 3 days to send to the specialist, be fixed, get returned and get refitted, but it only took them one day, so can't be that. So they must be fixing it on site, but then why are they f*cking about fitting another ecu when they could spend the same amount of time fixing your current one and have it back together the same day? None of it adds up, they're taking the piss, simple as. Severely angry on your behalf.
I'm just sick of seeing people taken for a ride by unscrupulous traders. They're relying on your lack of in-depth knowledge and feeding you complete nonsense to hide the fact they're charging you for stuff they don't need to, all because they don't know what the problem is. I mean what kind of garage keeps a spare, unlocked, converted ecu around just in case they get a car come in with a dead ecu - which incidentally is about a 1 in 5000 chance - so they can lend it out to customers so they get their car back for one day...? No business works like that, it's not feasible or prudent and it doesn't make business sense. Also, if they had to send it off to be fixed it would have taken at least 3 days to send to the specialist, be fixed, get returned and get refitted, but it only took them one day, so can't be that. So they must be fixing it on site, but then why are they f*cking about fitting another ecu when they could spend the same amount of time fixing your current one and have it back together the same day? None of it adds up, they're taking the piss, simple as. Severely angry on your behalf.