replaced ECM meant i am to pay for it.....

dealer told me ECM is only under warranty for 50,000 miles...

i got a call just to say "**** ****!" from my dealer. they asked if there was any way possible to put anything else on that truck....

but what they don't know...is that i already took lots of stuff OFF of the truck!!!!

 

ecm should be covered under the 100k engine warranty

 

thats what i thought too....but not what dealer said. Depending on the location of the short, i may not have to pay for anything.

 

Any updates?

 

 

Yep.

ECM replaced, at my cost ($2300 installed). Same problems still exists.

Dealer tells me there must be a short somewhere......so they check all the wires they can find. The find that somewhere in the 46 wires between the PCM and the BCM theres a short. They supposedly looked for 5 hours straight....couldn't find it. So, they ordered the 8 ft strand of 46 wires for $830. They ordered that on Wednesday...supposed to be in Friday from a dealer in Houston. Friday i get a call that the dealer in Houston didn't really have it and its been ordered from California and expected to be in Tuesday.

but now.....since A&M starts back up tommorrow, I'm back in College Station in my farm play truck. So Tyler, when you see this truck around this week, be sure to laugh at me. something about dust and water doesn't mix.....so this is what the farm truck looks like


got 10mpg on my way to college station.

 

You call that mud? My lawn mower's muddier than that. Just kidding. That's a healthy bill. Well you know what they say. Better you than me.

 

thats not even mud.....that water puddle and dust.

 

Why is the ECM only warrantied for 50K? seems like thatd be part of the 100K engine warranty........

 

I really don't know. the ECM fried because of a short in a wiring harness. the harness had been tampered with before hand, however i don't think thats what caused the problem.

 

so since they replaced the ecm to the tune of $2300 without fixing the problem, you still having to pay for it? i hate when they throw YOUR money at something.

 

they say now that the wiring harness caused the ECM failure. Im getting everything at dealer cost since the service manager is a good buddy of mine. They aren't doing me wrong.

 

i love how mechs at at dealers jsut throw parts at it until it fixes it.....i could do that and save myself the price of labor!!!!

 

Thats not happening in the case, i assure you!

 

I don't think this dealer is throwing parts at it. The first ecm was fried and so they put a new one on and that didn't work. Ok. How were they to know that it wouldn't work? Phil should have to pay for the ECM since it is a new part (although $2300 does sound high, I dunno bout 3rd gens but changing an ECM on my truck takes all of 15 mins) and he most definately needed one. And if the harness that they now checked has a short in it and they found out for sure that it was the harness then he should have to pay for their diagnostic labor and the harness. Now, with that being said, I'd hate to see the labor cost for this job.