well as you know...i got a 93 ae100 sprinter... yep that's a Toyota and no it's not bulletproof :)
Was having starting problems last friday and saturday it just absolutely refused to start...
Towed it to toyota since they are close by and after checking her up fully... they concluded that i have busted/fried my ECU
Toyota doesn't stock parts for older cars and they roughly guessed a new unit to be over 40k plus unknown delivery times
Now i have two options
1. go to delkanda area and find a recon/used ECU for a 5AFE motor
2. get t he ECU "fixed" by one of those ECU experts, one fella stays quite close to my place in wattala
the only nagging thought for me is that even if i buy a used ECU for the exact model, that unit will still be over 10 years old...upto 15 years actually
so there's no guessing when that too will go bust..
If i "repair" the ECU at least the "parts" used will be "newer" and might hold up longer?????
any ideas on which route to go for???????
One of my friends said that i might be able to find a used ECU from 5k-10k+
No idea about repair costs but i'd guess that too will be falling somewhere over 5k
I have an empty parking slot at home previously occupied for 6 years by the starlet and 3 months by an AD wagon -what would be a bang-for-the-buck fun shitbox? Preferably auto as I live in a crowded suburb that has sapped the joy of stick shift out of my system.
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well as you know...i got a 93 ae100 sprinter... yep that's a Toyota and no it's not bulletproof
:)
Was having starting problems last friday and saturday it just absolutely refused to start...
Towed it to toyota since they are close by and after checking her up fully... they concluded that i have busted/fried my ECU
Toyota doesn't stock parts for older cars and they roughly guessed a new unit to be over 40k plus unknown delivery times
Now i have two options
1. go to delkanda area and find a recon/used ECU for a 5AFE motor
2. get t he ECU "fixed" by one of those ECU experts, one fella stays quite close to my place in wattala
the only nagging thought for me is that even if i buy a used ECU for the exact model, that unit will still be over 10 years old...upto 15 years actually
so there's no guessing when that too will go bust..
If i "repair" the ECU at least the "parts" used will be "newer" and might hold up longer?????
any ideas on which route to go for???????
One of my friends said that i might be able to find a used ECU from 5k-10k+
No idea about repair costs but i'd guess that too will be falling somewhere over 5k
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