Need advice right now, PLEASE

2012cliff

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Have bike at dealership. They say my ecu is fried. Their computer and their talks with triumph all confirm my bikes ecu will not engage. What do I do? 1- buy new ecu from triumph canada $ 1000.
2- buy a ecu off of ebay and hope it works. Is there anything i need to be aware of?
And then never play with my ecu again
 
I believe yours is the first I've ever heard of an ecu being fried (for the rockets anyway)! I'd be pretty confident off eBay, that if it was working before it will work still. Confident enough I'd still throw a good tune in it!
 
cardinal93 said:
I believe yours is the first I've ever heard of an ecu being fried (for the rockets anyway)! I'd be pretty confident off eBay, that if it was working before it will work still. Confident enough I'd still throw a good tune in it!
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The bikes eu will not respond to laptop, not even triumps
 
I would buy one off of ebay , I have a very hard time trusting any dealer !
 
EXTEMELY rare to have a bricked ECU that is irrecoverable

I'd be looking for a fundamental wiring issue to the Diagnostic Connector

Edit - never mind, just found your other thread.
You should have been able to recover with the TuneECu recovery utility; I would still suspect you have something fundamentally wrong, especially if the Triumph tool can't communicate with it.

Ensure that Fuse 4 and also Fuse 6 are good

I've never actually tried this to see if it would help in this situation, but one suggestion I could make would be to remove the ECU Power Relay and jumper between the two Pink/Brown wire terminals. That can't do any harm, just completes the power loop that the ECU would normally complete to turn on that relay and then feeds power back into itself.


Buying a used ECU from EBay is probably pretty safe bet if that's what it comes down to.
 
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Jeffrey Cochran said:
I would buy one off of ebay , I have a very hard time trusting any dealer !
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This rates as one of the stupidest statements I've ever seen on here. You'd trust buying a second hand ECU from a stranger over a genuine new part supplied by Triumph? I can think of plenty of reasons why buying off ebay isn't such a bad idea but trust sure isn't one of them.
 
ECU's are very reliable - unless you have money to burn, then buying a used ECU from a bike that is being parted out is a pretty low risk in my book.
And many of the bigger breakers will offer a guarantee anyway.

It shouldn't be a case of 'not trusting' a dealer, simple economics.
 
I just recently saw a post on one of the Triumph forums on FB about a guy that bought an ECU off EBay for his Rocket, when it showed up the serial # had been covered up or removed, And it turned out it was an ECU for a speed triple.

Check out the Seller real good before buying
 
See this thread:



Particularly


Of course substitute the relevant maps for your Rocket Application;
Open the map you retrieved from the ECU initially before attempting to reconnect.

Also from

 
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