10-04-2018, 04:47 PM
So my brother recently passed his test and we're trying to get my old 1.4 Meridian back on the road.
Unfortunately it failed the MOT
![[Image: 39559208850_425f5ee922_b.jpg]](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/803/39559208850_425f5ee922_b.jpg)
During my ownership of the car I paid around £400 for the ECU to be reprogrammed (not that I ever got a receipt or any proof of it being done) to fix an issue (which it did) with the idle dropping completely and stalling the car. This was done after I had bought a new ICV and TPS but before the MOT in 2016 (see picture).
To get it through the MOT in 2016 I bought an 'NGK Oxygen Sensor' and a 'Type Approved BM Cat' (quoted from invoice) costing £269.96 including labour. So all in all spent over £600 getting the car that only cost £600 running. I stopped driving it February 2017 and it's been parked in the drive ever since.
Now as you can see from the photo it failed again due to the same emissions problems as before and the garage is saying its the ECU that's gone, I struggle to believe this but maybe he knows what he's talking about. We only kept the car around after I stopped driving it because of the money spent on it and don't really want to have to spend anything more on it.
So my question is could I buy an identical second hand ECU and stick it in the car? Or is there more too it than this? Does it need to be reprogrammed or anything?
If anyone thinks it's anything other than a faulty ECU I'd love to hear suggestions.
Unfortunately it failed the MOT
During my ownership of the car I paid around £400 for the ECU to be reprogrammed (not that I ever got a receipt or any proof of it being done) to fix an issue (which it did) with the idle dropping completely and stalling the car. This was done after I had bought a new ICV and TPS but before the MOT in 2016 (see picture).
To get it through the MOT in 2016 I bought an 'NGK Oxygen Sensor' and a 'Type Approved BM Cat' (quoted from invoice) costing £269.96 including labour. So all in all spent over £600 getting the car that only cost £600 running. I stopped driving it February 2017 and it's been parked in the drive ever since.
Now as you can see from the photo it failed again due to the same emissions problems as before and the garage is saying its the ECU that's gone, I struggle to believe this but maybe he knows what he's talking about. We only kept the car around after I stopped driving it because of the money spent on it and don't really want to have to spend anything more on it.
So my question is could I buy an identical second hand ECU and stick it in the car? Or is there more too it than this? Does it need to be reprogrammed or anything?
If anyone thinks it's anything other than a faulty ECU I'd love to hear suggestions.