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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:17 pm 
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can anyone tell me how to reset the ecu for an ed fairmont, auto?

 

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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:20 pm 
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disconnect the negative battery terminal for a while,,at least half an hour.

 

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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:16 pm 
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thats what i always thought to do but the other dy someone said somethin about needing to select differnet gears and play with the pedals, because of the auto or something

 

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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:57 pm 
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nar dc batter and push brake pedal to remove all residual power form inside the ecu

rest for 1/2 hr or so and reconect :)

 

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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:59 pm 
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alright sweet ill do that

 

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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 10:09 pm 
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There is no real benefit to resetting the ECU, basically all your doing is resetting the KAM (keep alive memory) it will re-learn in about a week of driving so it will be the same as before. The first thing you will notice is the gears change hard as a result in the battery being disconnected so then you will have to perform a throttle calibration.
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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 10:14 pm 
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im resetting it as a result of my car running extremely rich an with a new oxygen sensor i was told to reset it just so its all starting from scratch sort of thing.

how do you do a throttle calibration?

 

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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 10:20 pm 
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No need to worry about any fancy stuff. Just disconnect the battery overnight. I didn't do any fancy stuff with pedals or throttle calibration when mine reset! You may notice a few odd things while the ECU is relearning (eg mine stalled twice), but just ignore it and it will be fine!

 

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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 10:31 pm 
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adrian` wrote:
how do you do a throttle calibration?


Why do you want to perform this procedure? I've done it on 2 of my EB's in the past and it didnt fix my crappy kickdown performance :)

 

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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 10:45 pm 
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i dotn reali want to, i just want my car to run right... ill do what ever im told to... right or rong ill look into giving it a shot, so two people dont think i should worrie about doing it?

 

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i dotn reali want to, i just want my car to run right... ill do what ever im told to... right or rong ill look into giving it a shot, so two people dont think i should worrie about doing it?


Unless you have a specific problem, I dont think you'll notice any great improvement :)

 

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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 10:55 pm 
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yea i got a fuel problem, using average 22.6l/100k's get about 300ish to 350ish k's to a tank

 

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adrian` wrote:
yea i got a fuel problem, using average 22.6l/100k's get about 300ish to 350ish k's to a tank



TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE ACCEL PEDAL!!!

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nar man change plugs/leads air and fuel filters, dizzy rotor and clean the dizzy cap terminals
also your injectors can be blocked

 

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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 12:10 am 
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yea i already bought new leads, plugs, dizzy cap, rotor, new k&n ( didnt wanna clean my old one, it was filthy)

 

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Every time power is interupted (battery dissconnected) a throttle calibration should be performed.
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