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hey im currently in the process of buying a 2001 dodge ram 2500 cummins.
its 4 speed auto 24 valve, and on the day i was supposed to buy it the guy calls me, he was on the way out of town (he lives an hour away) the CEL came on. he went to the dealership, and diagnostics pointed to a faulty ecu. he said the dealership would fix it and he will pay for it. the thing i dont get is how can an ecu go bad but the truck runs fine?
he said it ran the same just CEL was on.
kinda unfortunate since the new computer was a grand...
ill have the truck tuesday, so ill have pics up then.
hope its not a basket case, he says he has reciepts for work and new tranny and t-case.
im not worried about the engine with only 179k miles bein a cummins its just broke in but the truck its in may b fun if i dont take care of problems when i get it.
hope all goes well. can anyone explain why it would run fine?
he says it gets 600 ish km's per tank and the tank is 100 liters.
my math tells me that aint that good of milage.
and its not chipped so that would help but...
anyways, any info helps...
its 4 speed auto 24 valve, and on the day i was supposed to buy it the guy calls me, he was on the way out of town (he lives an hour away) the CEL came on. he went to the dealership, and diagnostics pointed to a faulty ecu. he said the dealership would fix it and he will pay for it. the thing i dont get is how can an ecu go bad but the truck runs fine?
he said it ran the same just CEL was on.
kinda unfortunate since the new computer was a grand...
ill have the truck tuesday, so ill have pics up then.
hope its not a basket case, he says he has reciepts for work and new tranny and t-case.
im not worried about the engine with only 179k miles bein a cummins its just broke in but the truck its in may b fun if i dont take care of problems when i get it.
hope all goes well. can anyone explain why it would run fine?
he says it gets 600 ish km's per tank and the tank is 100 liters.
my math tells me that aint that good of milage.
and its not chipped so that would help but...
anyways, any info helps...