Careful where you stick that probe!

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    What's a $700 mistake that only takes a half a second to make? Accidentally jumping 2 prongs together that go to the ECU that's what. In an effort to hunt down my EVAP CEL 457, I was poking my multimeter probe around and blew my ECU. Those with a happy probe finger beware. NOT EVERY CIRCUIT IS FUSED. And my EVAP CEL was only a dirty connection around the charcoal canister.

    dang.
     
    Andrew, Dec 21, 2007
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    ouch, that sucks.
     
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    owie...........
     
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    glad we could sort out your problems
     
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    :eek3:.....just wow! sorry to hear that
     
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    There are '05's for under $200 and '04's for less than $150 on www.car-part.com
     
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    could have saved $300, good site to know about.

    dang.
     
    Andrew, Dec 22, 2007
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    indeed! Car-part = victory

    also, most circuits are fused, but it doesn't take much juice in the wrong place to fry things.....
     
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    is there any value in a broken ecu? i'll throw it on ebay for a dollar with no reserve and see what happens.
     
    Andrew, Dec 22, 2007
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    you never know. might be worth it just to cannibalize the plugs.
     
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