Borked 04 WRX ECU (at PTuning)....need help!

saint_foo · Post by **saint_foo** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:00 pm

Idaho (Andrew) on NASIOC took his 04 WRX wagon to PTuning to get OpenSource tuned.

Linky: http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthr ... ?t=1467765

Unfortunately, I got a call wondering if Andrewtech has an 04 WRX ECU.

I talked to Anthony75 and he said they might've encountered something called "bricking". Anyhoo...I know you guys are a lot more "geekier" (read: SMARTER) than a lot of the posters on NASIOC.

Soooo, anyone got some bright ideas?

I tried to tell him to use the UTEC he bought, and use the Open Source to tweak....oh well.

If any kind souls are able/willing to help someone out, here's some #s:

Ed (saint_foo) 301-529-2831 (I'll just ask you to call the next guy anyways):

Andrew : 208-610-6267

thanks in advance, oh gurus.

Idaho · Post by **Idaho** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:07 pm

Yes, any help would be great. I'm still trying to find out what the hell is going on. I haven't really been able to get an update on things.

So, hopefully something can get worked out, if not I have to somehow get a ride home to Alexandria and don't know what will happen from here.

Post by **Sabre** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:08 pm

I helped put in the turbo on Andrews car last Saturday, so I really hope this turns out for the best. I've never actually heard of someone bricking an ECU before. Bricking their motherboard, sure (bad BIOS update and such). My thought is that they should be able to just reflash it and be ok (ECU's are a lot different than motherboards in that respect).

I have an 04 STI ECU, but I don't think that will help him much.

Idaho · Post by **Idaho** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:32 pm

Yeah, once it's bricked I guess there only thing you can do is some sort of backdoor thing mentioned on openecu.org. Unfortunately though this backdoor thing was not included in the latest version of ecuflash, or so the forums say.

Phibs · Post by **Phibs** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:38 pm

You figure out what happened yet?

Post by **complacent** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:37 pm

I remember reading somewhere online about restoring bricked ECUs...

I'm searching teh usual suspects to come up with an answer (openecu, romraider, wrxhackers, etc)

I could have sworn it was a flat rate, mail in service.

Post by **Sabre** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:44 pm

Things worked out very well, but I'll let Andrew tell the story!

spazegun2213 · Post by **spazegun2213** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:00 pm

Sabre wrote:Things worked out very well, but I'll let Andrew tell the story!

he posted up on nasioc about it. Things sound good for the car given it was the first subie PTuning has touched.

Phibs · Post by **Phibs** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:11 pm

Sabre wrote:Things worked out very well, but I'll let Andrew tell the story!

Grats Andrew, glad you didn't have my luck