Super Shadow

So, today i went to my local dealer(Toms River, NJ) because i recently replced my MAF. The bulletin said to get the ECU reprogrammed. I bring the car in and 45 mins later they tell me they cant do the re-flash because the vin in the ECU doesn't match the vin of the car. They said if it is running fine it might not need it. You might have a different ECU or performance ECU installed. The only way to fix that little "problem" would be to buy a new ECU and have us program it correctly. Now the car does run fine but is this mismatched vin thing anything i should worry about? I bought the car like that and the guy made mention of any ecu replacement that he knew of.

TallTom

If it runs fine, I would just leave it alone. The original ECU could have shorted out and the guy swapped one out from a junkyard.

Gemner

iTrader: (4)

you dont need to reprogram your car for a new MAF. Just do an ECU reset and follow the relearn procedures.

Also, there is no reason they cant do an ECU reprogram on a car that has a not matching ECU. They are FOS

tosheto

iTrader: (5)

Leave it alone if the car runs fine. I put new ECU in my 00 I30 because the old one was having issues. The dealer programmed the new one and the car ran great again.

Super Shadow

I wonder why they would give me the "vins don't match" bs then, if certain one will do it anyway. I even put my OEM air box in just in case they wanted to complain about that too lol

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ChrisMan287

iTrader: (34)

You have nothing to worry about. What probably happened is that the ECU fried (it does happen) and the previous owner swapped in another. No biggie.

Max_Gator

What a load of crap.