20-05-2014, 05:32 PM
I wouldn't go as far as saying an MPPS will "never" fail - NO clone I'd go as far as trusting - end of the day, if you buy a clone, expect to have your ECU bricked, they are made from parts that cost *PENNIES* using crap quality, cheap aluminium cable, most I've seen aren't even copper...
Far as I can see - if it doesn't nail your ECU then hooray!!
Worst case is you need to send it away to be fixed and the prom be flashed in programmer - it'll still be less than buying the genuine item... For people who's livelihood is flashing ECUs, then they will happily spend the money on a genuine tool - if I was going to flash paying punters cars for my bread and butter, there's no way I'd be using a £4.99 KWP clone off ebay. But for us individuals flashing our own <£2k cars - what's the point, take the usual precautions, don't be stupid, expect it to break, if it doesn't, head to the pub.
In my experience of flashing similar EEPROM (29fxxx series) in a Willem programmer, I've had probably a 90% hit rate... And that's on the bench using a proper Programmer, not sat outside in a car with a dodgy USB connection through a dusty OBDII port, on battery... Lol!
Far as I can see - if it doesn't nail your ECU then hooray!!
Worst case is you need to send it away to be fixed and the prom be flashed in programmer - it'll still be less than buying the genuine item... For people who's livelihood is flashing ECUs, then they will happily spend the money on a genuine tool - if I was going to flash paying punters cars for my bread and butter, there's no way I'd be using a £4.99 KWP clone off ebay. But for us individuals flashing our own <£2k cars - what's the point, take the usual precautions, don't be stupid, expect it to break, if it doesn't, head to the pub.
In my experience of flashing similar EEPROM (29fxxx series) in a Willem programmer, I've had probably a 90% hit rate... And that's on the bench using a proper Programmer, not sat outside in a car with a dodgy USB connection through a dusty OBDII port, on battery... Lol!
