Coulda, shoulda, woulda! I decided to save a couple of bucks and try out the Usolute tuning since I had several people tell me it was great on their cars. My car won't run now! I start it, and after a minute or so it just dies! I drove it down the road and when I wrapped out second it shut down and threw the PSM light and the ABS light. Any idea what might be wrong? I tried resetting the throttle body, and disconnecting the battery, but niether helped. This sucks!

 

Before you chase down too many roads, find someone with the PST, read out specifics on those codes, and find out the times and frequency that the codes have faulted since the tuning was done and the light illuminated. The system will continue to record fault times until the system is cleared.

 

GET RID OF THE TUNING!!!!!!!!!!!GO BACK STOCK AND RESEARCH THE OTHER TUNERS.GOOD LUCK.

 

I love it , afterall you were the expert on the subject of Ruf , GIAC etc are "rip off's", lol , at least there ECU's run ..........

 

Hey Pole - You referring to Big Carrot dissn' my GIAC brothers? Sorry to hear your car is broke Carrot. What are you going to do now?

 

Sorry your car is broken, NOOB.
Then again, you mouthed off to me (and other's) complaining about how much of a rip off RUF, GAIC and others are.
It's all about treading softly and learning eh?
Steve

 

My guess would be poor soldering Hence a bad connection and cutting out... Just a guess but I've seen some poor soldering in my time Hopefully you don't need a new ECU.....

 

Thanks for the help, **** smack! I said Ruf was overpriced, and that hasn't changed since last week. If I can get my ECU to run as much as your diarrhea of the mouth infested yapper, I'll be in great shape.

 

Please read the first line of your signature. I never said ANYTHING about GAIC, and I never bashed GIAC either. I just thought if I could get my car tuned locally for 25% of what GIAC charges and end up with similar results, it was worth a shot. I'm sure they'll fix the problem and give me a nice discount. Hopefully I'll end up with 70 or 80 hp for about what you paid for that fake gold tooth that you wear. Tread softly? Nah, it looks like I'll be learning the hard way. Thanks for the advice, sport!

 

I'm hoping that's what the problem is. It seems to cut out intermittently. Hopefully it won't be a big deal.

 

Let's all chill out a bit. It sucks when a fellow P-car owner is having troubles. It sounds like a connection problem somewhere (chip or ECU). Hope it works out. If you learn anything, let us know.

 

Go to Autozone (if it runs) and get the codes read. It may be an unreleated issue such as MAF, fuel pump/filter, loose hose, etc.

 

Thanks for the USEFUL replies, guys. My guess is that Sharkster has is right. The Upsolute guy is picking my PCM up tomorrow to check it out. Curbside service isn't bad.

 

Actually I thought of something else. A bad contact of bent pin on the backside of the ECU. This can happen when you physically take the ECU out and plug it back in. These things can be so touchy... On the other side, soldering those things used to be such a chore so I'm glad these days you don't need to take the ECU out anymore and can flash through the OBDII port.

If I think of anything else I'll let you know but that's all I can think of...

 

Sounds more like a cold solder joint. The joint doesn't solder all the way to the board and gives a small airline crack. The ECU gets hot, the joint expands and the connection is lost. This is often an issue when the soldered is dragged across the connections rather than individually solder. Alex has witness right and wrong way when I was in San Jose doing his several years ago. We no longer have to solder anything. This as been a reoccurring issue with some other brands.