well i bought this off ebay and this is how he shipped it. no newspaper no nothing. from florida to CA. my car was running crappy(old ecu messed up I think) now I put the new ecu it still running crappy so I cant tell if the ECU is good or not. from florida to CA it got banged up by the mailman what are the chances there was any damage done? thanks

 

if it's running the same way on both ecu's chances are they are both good. The odds of both ecu's having the same problem is very slim. Usually a bad ecu throws a solid engine light...

Vince

 

I was taking an ECU out once and I dropped it from 5 feet up onto the concrete, it landed flat on the LCD side and i thought it was toast. Plugged it in and it was still fine. Im gonna say they are fairly tough. How does your car run crappy? Its probly somethin really simple.

 

well i am imagining it getting tossed from loading dock to truck to truck about 5000 times from florida to my house thats why

 

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Why would you think its messed up ? Usually when you have a problem, I would say 10 times out of thousand it will be the ecu. Its not common. I don't know about shipping an ecu over state with no wraping, but if you had a problem with your old ecu, and you still having the same problem, its not the ecu's. By the way, if the ecu is ever messed up internal, bad enough, I don't even think the car would start. The ecu would throw the bad ecu code. ECU's are not like brakes, they don't wear down. Either 1 day there gonna be working, or the next day there totally gonna be dead.

 

ecu's are pretty durable..... i doubt the ecu is the problem especially as you say you still have the same problem

 

Why don't you try it and see?

 

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Reread what he put

 

i seriously doubt the ecu is to blame, just like the others who posted previously.
the ecu in my b16 hatch has been beat all to hell and still works fine. i should show you pics of it, b/c it looks worse than the pic you posted, but is still A+ functionally.

 

i dropped a p28 si ecu i my pond its about 15 feet deep it took me every bit of 20 mins to swim down an get it i pluged it up after it dryed out and it worked

 

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LOL... i don't know why i think thats funny but it is. its amazing that its still working so well!!

 

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why did you have a ecu out at your pond?

 

No moving parts on an ecu, they are really durable. Unless you hit it hard enough to crack the wafer board inside the case or microwave the sucker it should be fine. If you get them wet, just make sure you let it dry out completely before plugging it back in.

 

I would say it is more durable than a nintendo64 game and I used to chuck those ******* across the room and they always worked fine

 

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nintendo, super netendo and nintendo64

those were the days

yeah pretty durable

 

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Why would you think its messed up ? Usually when you have a problem, I would say 10 times out of thousand it will be the ecu. </TD></TR></TABLE>

That made me laugh because I'm a nerd and you could have said 1 in a hundred would be broken.

Anyways, I doubt it's the ECU. You people say running crappy it can be a lot of different things. A bad fuel filter, bad plugs or wires, bad compression, intermittent injector. Tell us exactly what the car is doing and we could probably help you more.

 

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That made me laugh because I'm a nerd and you could have said 1 in a hundred would be broken.
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I wanted to get the point accross .

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Anyways, I doubt it's the ECU. You people say running crappy it can be a lot of different things. A bad fuel filter, bad plugs or wires, bad compression, intermittent injector. Tell us exactly what the car is doing and we could probably help you more. </TD></TR></TABLE>

A lot of people will blame things that its not when you can't find the problem, stop shotgunning the problem and figure out whats really wrong.

 

hahaha u guys used to throw them across the room too, man the good old nintengo games