ECU failure and low mileage cars, 1991 mirage Options

[badbu68]

Even if you have a low mileage car, replace the caps on your ecu/tcu!

Example, 1991 mirage, 60K miles.

I had to replace the tcu and just yesterday I had to swap out the ecu. My mom was driving the car home and she got down near krogers on main in bloomington when the car died. What did she do? Coast it into the Risques parking lot. Mom subsequently goes into the porn shop and makes a phone call to me. Car just cranks over and doesn't fire so I pick her up, and on a whim decide to try the spare ecu I have, wich I'm going to replace the capacitors on as soon as I get my desoldering gun in. Pull the ecu, it smelt like burnt electronics when I opened the ecu up. When I went back to replace it the ecu, I could tell the whole car smelled like it too.

Just an fyi to you 1st gen owners.