I'm willing to bet if you get your old ecu back, and plug it in, it will work just fine. You should change the title of the thread too, "How I got screwed out of $1600"

 

you never answered swoope's question about your mileage, plus you seem not as mad as you should be.

 

How very unimpotant of you to say this. Do you feel better when talking down to others? What a hateful, antagonistic ******* you are Jeff. My God, what difference does it make if the young man's family has money? I truly hope that whatever you do has nothing to do with dealing with others. I guess you were raised by wolves and they just didn't give you the attention that you crave now.
Why don't you join the Marines, head to Iraq and put some of that pent up aggression to good use instead of saying dickwad things to a young guy learning about hard knocks?

You have some pretty cool ideas but socially your better off in a cave. I think your Delta Tau Chi name should be: DICK

 

Josh you need to go to the dealer and tell them you want your old pcm back immediately. Whether it is broken or not it is not the issue the issue is it is your property and you dont want them keeping it. What you should want is a independant party inspecting the old pcm and seeing whether it is damaged or not, and if its not damaged to contact mazda usa to make the situation right cause its bullshit how these shops screw people like this. I wouldnt be surprised if they reflashed your old pcm and reinstalled it. Just my 2 cents.

 

I'm siding with jeff on this one. I think he could have used some more tact with what he said but still. lets look at the facts. He was given several options to keep his 1800 bucks and decided to follow non of them. Its his car not his dads and his money. his dad had no say in the outcome. I dont care how you look at it. If he has no idea what the hell he's doing to FIX a disconnected wire from a stereo system why in the hell does no one think he screwed up the install. No offence man but lets face the music, are you even capable of getting to the main fuse to check it? I'm in the military and I dont make 1800 bucks in a month. I would be some kind of pissed if I had to shell it out and the least of my worries would be the subs in my trunk. Jeff doesnt care how old you are, I'm 22. He helped me a year ago when I poped an apex seal on my rear rotor. Soooooo I would say, look at the facts before you yell at someone who can reconise the truth. This kid really doesnt give a ****.

 

Ok so what was the real cause of all this??
With your mention of your subs being a custom job how long did you have them in your car before attempting the Int-X install? And when you say Custom do you mean a custom shop or a good friend who fiddles around with systems. With you now mentioning this I think maybe someone messed up your sub wiring to the fuse box and when you installed the Int-X it just fried something obviously. Just a thought.

Btw With MazsportScott personaly responding to this I may look into buying this from them come after Christmas

Edit: Ok I thought I was at the end of the thread when I posted this but I missed the last page. To those bashing josh, we dont know what his family life is like at ALL! He could have one of those over bearing macho wanna be I used to play high school football and drink beer for breakfast kinda dads. Those types you listen just to shut them up, my father is somewhat like that why I dont talk to him much if at all.
And him worring about the damn speakers christ guys if you just shelled out that much cash most likely having a father still yelling at you for buying the Int-X then reading this thread he made to seek HELP and being yelled at and then to top it off that luvly feeling of being OVERWHELMED! You would want to atleast have something go right for you and to some like myself music is it.

Josh if ya read this if I'm completly off about your dad I apologize
Also get your ECU back right away, and find out why that Tech didnt call back MazsportScott!?!

 

First of all I want you to know that I have the utmost respect for you and all those who serve so Thank You. That aside, my point had nothing to do with the guys options or choices. My point is that Jeff goes out of his way to say uneccessary, judgemental things to others. Those that know me will vouch that I am not a bleeding heart but I am sick of this self important, self appointed, know it all. I disagree with some of Jeff's "theories" and all of his views on life. He is not someone that I choose to associate with nor would I do businness with him. I was simply utilizing this public forum to say that his comments about others add absolutely NOTHING to this forum.

 

Well after a little persuasion (and deleting a thread that was against the rules rather than sending a PM!), I am opening this back up again. It would be nice to know ultimately how this turns out. Keep in mind that this thread has gone down the toilet and I'm going to flush it the next time even ONE SINGLE person says anything offensive to someone else so that is the only warning that is going to come. No arguing back and forth either or criticizing someone for their response. Let's see how long this lasts! If it does get closed down, please don't start more threads about it or call me out in a thread complaining about it. That too is a rules violation and is plain childish. Remember I don't always make decisions that will make everyone happy and I don't really care. Keep it civil and maybe we'll hear the rest of the story. Hopefully this is clear enough to keep it clean.

 

Why, thank you!

You might learn a lesson or two from your own words.
I already fought for my country (Denmark). What is your excuse?

BTW - I stand by what I said - there is nothing "aggressive" about it;
He is dumb - He asked for advice and then didn't heed it. That is actually dumb. You disagree?
He is rich - he is in a position to save enough money to buy a $26k car in just a few years and then can laugh when his father makes him "learn a lesson" by frivously wasting another $2k.
He is a kid - that has been established.

So, on all accounts - bite me.

 

Of course you are right Jeff about everything, now and always. I know this makes you happy. And Thank You from all of us for saving Denmark from hostile takeover!

I stand by all of my opinions also. As far as biting you, I would rather take my chances with bagged spinach. Less chance of poisoning.

 

Well.... I spoke with Josh last night via pm's and he is going to get the old ECU back today and ship it to me with the Interceptor-X. I will inspect the internals and report back with my findings, Scott

 

The ECU has been in dealer hands and control for how long?

I had a distributor cap and rotor replaced by a dealer mech more than a decade ago. I suspected it did no need to be changed and I asked for the parts back as they delivered the car.
He handed me a fairly well charred 4-cylinder cap. The car was a V-6. When I called him on it, he got irate.

Since he took delivery of the car some time ago, don't expect the PCM to be in the same condition it was when it was extracted.

Thanks! I appreciate your understanding.

Well, at the time, it was a safe place (before Bush I started playing with stuff and we had to tighten up). But I was actually busy defending US interests at the time.

I suspect that anything else would be too challenging for you.

You do understand the fact that as soon as you go ad hominem, you have lost the argument, right?

 

I'm starting to think maybe his Sub's had a hand in well killing the car sort to speak. Especialy since the Tech's at the dealership disconnected the wire to the fuse box.. why touch it in the first place?!? And also why not reconnected it afterward. Thinking something alone the lines of a crossed wire I dunno just speculating.

Josh I hope ya find out what really happened with your car and not the dealers version which is sounding more and more like they gave you a miricle water cure if you catch my drift.

Keep us updated if you will!

 

It's a real simple question Josh, what does the odometer say?

Please tell us that and much will be revealed to you.

 

the odometer reads 44 thousand and something.. so does that mean i got ripped off?

 

Well changing the ECU to a new one would make the miles 000 if i am right then you have a case to take with the MAZDA US and ask to talk to the mazda rep....

 

YES! definitely. If you had a new ECU it wouldn't know how many miles there were. It woulld have to start from 00000000. And they can't say they copied it off the old info because it was fried, right?
So if they could read it then it worked when you brought it in.

Also if they claim they could reset the new one to match the old one they are lying. Give a dealer that power and every used car on the lot would be low mileage!

There is another box in the car and I'm thinking that might be the car specific info and if so I'm wrong. Someone on the forum know this??

Next I have an ECU right here on my desk and it is serial numbered, I wonder if that is recorded anyplace??

You need to go to MazdaUSA with this info.

 

i have to say they tried to do the same thing with me about my tranny and i have to say it took me a long time to get the money back but i got my 4k back so josh all i have to say is that try to get your money back bro... talk to the mazda rep but before you do that get your facts together.... good luck

 

I think (and am likely wrong, though I will dig through the FSM) that the odo is stored in the cluster.
Once the new PCM is registered to the old cluster, the car will function normally.
The PCM is serialized, so that number should be available on the build sheet at Mazda.

 

this is the thread i recalled...

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...light=odometer

i am VERY interested to know how this plays out.

beers

 

^^ Right. So the ODO data is in the cluster, not the PCM.

 

hey,

i called myself on that, but really not sure... but i would bet if the real ecu gets in the right hands the truth will come out..

and the the ecu was not wiped out...

beers

 

im callin the dealership on monday mornin cause i dont have time to go pick it up this weekend. but once i get it back im sendin it and the int-x to scott so he can test it.. i really hope i can get my 1800 bucks back, that would be awesome

oh also, i got my subs working again!! haha. i just took it by the place that installed them and i told him that the dealership unhooked some stuff and my subs wont work and asked him to look at it. it took him like 5 min. and found that the wire had just fallen down in a hole thing and he put it back in place so it works.

 

Still have $500 for your interceptor :-D

 

haha i wont sell it for that cheap if i even sell it at all. i still gotta send it to scott so he can test it. my dad says that i cant do anything like that ever again but i think once my warranty runs out then he will let me