Have seen it before, vw touareg had to have several ecu's replaced as they had all failed over the course of a couple of days. The car had had a flat battery previously to the ecu faults, I presumed the guy had put the jump leads on wrong and spiked it as the modules all worked to a fashion (he was sure he had done it correctly) but none of them were communicating on the can bus.
Replaced with used units and all was fine, following weekend, same problem with 2 of the 3 units I had replaced the weekend before.
I went through everything with him, turned out he had got a replacement phone charger (carphone warehouse own brand) and that was letting voltage backfeed from the phone into the lighter socket and that was enough to kill the canbus in the ecu's.
I tried the lead in a older basic car and it was pulling enough power back from the phone to light up the radio display and stop the door warning going off!
Fair play, he is really really irritating
I gave up watching 2 mins in.
again, modern cxxp cars.......
had a look at a new VW transporter, same as mine but with a few modern extras to make it plusher........£48,000, sorry no thanks I'll keep my T4.....
I'm agonising at the moment over whether to sell my MkI MX5
I'm agonising at the moment over whether to sell my MkI MX5 because of rubbish like this. Usually my daily is somewhere around the 10-15 year old mark and kept until I get bored of it or the numbers don't add up when something big needs doing but increasingly on that sort of age of car the thing that's going to kill it is some silly electronic or software problem when the rest of the vehicle is fine.
The MX5 does have an ECU to run the engine but it's simple enough and isolated from the rest of the systems so it could be replaced with an aftermarket system if it went pop and I couldn't get a standard replacement. The brakes are simple hydraulics with no ABS "brains" to try and second guess me. There's no central locking or alarm to immobilise me at an inconvenient time (there is an aftermarket immobiliser but I could remove that if it became problematic). The roof is manual and weatherproof. Plus it's popular enough worldwide that even parts that "should" have gone NLA are being re-made as there's sufficient market for it to be profitable.
Plus it's passed it's minimum value and should be appreciating in value nowadays (maybe not massively but it ain't getting cheaper so long as I'm not letting it get rusty).
I'm agonising at the moment over whether to sell my MkI MX5 because of rubbish like this. Usually my daily is somewhere around the 10-15 year old mark and kept until I get bored of it or the numbers don't add up when something big needs doing but increasingly on that sort of age of car the thing that's going to kill it is some silly electronic or software problem when the rest of the vehicle is fine.
The MX5 does have an ECU to run the engine but it's simple enough and isolated from the rest of the systems so it could be replaced with an aftermarket system if it went pop and I couldn't get a standard replacement. The brakes are simple hydraulics with no ABS "brains" to try and second guess me. There's no central locking or alarm to immobilise me at an inconvenient time (there is an aftermarket immobiliser but I could remove that if it became problematic). The roof is manual and weatherproof. Plus it's popular enough worldwide that even parts that "should" have gone NLA are being re-made as there's sufficient market for it to be profitable.
Plus it's passed it's minimum value and should be appreciating in value nowadays (maybe not massively but it ain't getting cheaper so long as I'm not letting it get rusty).