ECU corrupted

June 4th, 2008 at 14:14 · Filed Under Autos, Blogging 

I had been hearing some knocking sound during acceleration of my Honda City for weeks. Recently the sound had become more audible and the engine power decreased quite much. I sent it to the Honda workshop for inspection.

A very experience technician look at my car and he said my ECU unit had been somehow corrupted or messed up and needed reprogramming. There were many cars waiting for repairing or servicing and the technician told me I had to wait until 2 or 3 pm to have my car fixed. I negotiated with him that I could wait for 2-3 hours because I brought my MacBook so that I could work there while waiting.

He really did it in about 2.5 hours. Programming the ECU wouldn’t take much time but they had too many cars waiting in line. Thanked him for a quick service.

The programming cost me RM60 plus 5% tax. What a good pay for a simple job. To program the ECU is simple. Just plug in the cable to the ECU interface port beneath the dashboard and connect to a notebook computer with Honda’s software. The job will be completed in less than 5 minutes or so with a few clicks.

After the ECU has been reprogrammed, no more knocking sound and the car is more powerful again.

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