My Son is at school over 500 mi. away, and now the RSX won't run. Cranks, sputters, dies.
Also battery had died at this time, and was replaced by the son.
No tools with him and limited mechanical experience, apartments with rules against vehicle maintenance... So ******* Yay! Tow it to Honda dealership in Lubbock.
I've only had a chance to speak with a service advisor so far, and first he says when they try to connect the HDS or another acronym scanner I forget, "it just shuts down" ?
I say, "You understand that's a pretty vague description, right? What do you mean shuts down?" ..wait for tech to return from lunch, and mind you I have customers all day myself to attend to.. so, he calls back all breathless and **** at closing time Friday to tell me he needs another ECU, that this one won't communicate.
It's delicate dealing with people like this when you're at their mercy. I have very limited funds and those ******* think nothing of it.
I need to verify that they've considered the possibility of a non-functioning OBD port (bad fuse?) etc, so this will be fun when I call back Monday.
I know nobody likes an ******* trying to do their job, so you have to coddle their egos, but my kid says he was chatting with the tech and the guy was telling him he needed the ecu and harness to go with the block,(we swapped a nicer K20a from an identical running RSX we own, (both '02 Type S's) wrecked) for the immobilizer to function.
The car was running for over a month after the swap, this was a sudden failure.
That worries me that he thinks the ECU knows it's a different engine.
The tech bragged about some swap he did during that converstion, but didn't know what a KPro was when asked about possibility of immobilizer elimination?...
So anyway, I have the ECU from the shell, but was wanting it for a future swap, now I have to send it to these "parts replacers" in Lubbock.
When I get back the one they say "shuts down" lol...is their a way I can test it later to see if it's salvageable? I will swap into a non-immobilizer-equipped car anyway, and have a friend here at a dealership with access to an HDS.
I understand the ECU must be plugged into a car to reprogram or use the HDS, etc, and we will have the RSX, albeit on a different program by then, immobilizer changed, etc.
I don't want to trash this ECU if at all possible.
Man, I hate paying people to work on my ****.