13 replies to this topic

[Kane_GSR]

$385 is that the normal price for getting your ecu socketed?

Also will a vr4 run with a 055 or 609 wired up but no chip only the stock ecu?

[GVR40]

that seems a little high to me, I think brisvr4 got his socketed for $50

[andy's-galant]

Thats what meek charged me, he sends it away to brisbane to get repaired, isnt your car aspec? it should have the socket there already

[bazeng]

I guess if your going to socket, you should do the caps also.

[CLuTZ]

I'm pulling out the ECU in my EVO today to get it socketed- is it really that expensive to replace the capacitors?

[Entaran]

Mine cost me like 30 dollars
caps were an extra 20

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Shop's here in ballarat?

[CLuTZ]

Woohoo I pulled my ECU out today and its already been socketed!

[Kane_GSR]

Aspec arent factory socketed andy??... have you already got yours back or is it the one still in the office?? lol

My caps have been done.

[bazeng]

Make sure the caps are changed though guys... Just in case it leaks all over your board..

caps are dirt cheap compared to repairing the board

[andy's-galant]

My bad i thought i remembered they were socketed, mine must of got socketed previously.
I got mine back after 2weeks with meek back 4-5months ago, not my ecu.

[dafurn]

Just if anyone is intersted I can socket ecu s in Adelaide. pm me for details.

[milkandoj]

You really shouldnt pay much to get it done, 385 bucks it crazy!
Its an easy job to a someone who does this for a living, just a bit fiddley to de-solder a chip with 28 pins so it lets go and the new connections need to be perfect. Its worth getting someone to do it even if your good at normal soldering.

The parts aren't worth stuff all, shitty chip holders are a few cents and good ones more around a dollar. Capacitors are a few cents each. Your really paying for labour.

To do the job; they heat up each of the 28 pins with the iron, suck the hot solder up. It takes a few seconds for each pin.
Then solder the new holder. Same with each capacitor. Theres only a few of them to.

My girl friends father owns a business that makes circuit boards, and to him it wasn't worth the 6 pack i ended up giving him.

[Entaran]

^^ This

This is why i was like 385 bucks?

Dude I took mine to a (good) TV repairshop and they did it for like 30. I think the apprentice did it too.

[dafurn]

When i socket an ECU It normally takes me around 15 min. I use a desoldering station to remove the majority of the solder on pins from the bottom of the board then I use solder wick on the eprom side of the board to completely free every pin.

If you do not free every pin from the board properly when you remove the eprom you will pull the threw plates out of the board and the circuit board will need to be repaired.

It should take a good electronics technician no more than half an hour to socket an ECU.

$385 is way overpriced and I would be going elsewhere.