Ehh, well at this point I’ll just wait to hear back from the count. I just missed him yesterday, plus he’s most likely my best bet at figuring out what’s wrong.
After the ecu came back it was fine… it was the epromm coming loose…
Its probably the same issue I had… good timing tho u can get your epromm removed and a hard flash.
Keep us posted…
I would print out the RMA form of their web site and mail in the ecu… when they get back they will do it and ship it back quick… don’t wait for them to get back it will be longer down time with shipping
I’m also having this issue. My dash lights up like a B5, traction control and epc light come on first, them I get the oil pressure light (red) coupled with the weird headlight symbol (auto leveling) and finally shuts down.
Other times @ idle, the traction control light and epc light come on, then it hiccups, almost stalls but everything is works itself out.
It has also left me stranded while going to lunch on a workday.
Is this a JHM/ecu issue? Sounds similar to those mentioned above.
Note, I have also had it shut down on the highway, as recently as today, thankfully I drive a manual. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, I have a four hour drive and I’m sad to say I have more faith in my B5 right now.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I got mine mid 2011. Thanks to Dru, and the Count I managed to get my ECU off on Monday and it arrived at my building a couple hours ago. Now I cross my fingers and hope this fixes everything because I have a long drive ahead of me right after. I have a lot of faith though, the guys do great work ;D Now I’m just watching the clock, but for some reason it just seems to be going slower right now…
you can see why they want this flash server thing to be up and running already lol
the chips and boards cost a surprisingly huge amount of money
the time it takes jaybquick to do the soldering etc is a nightmare
dealing with the shipping to and fro of a customer’s ECU is inconvenient for the customer and JHM (takes time and paid employees to do shipping…I think they just hired a guy who does nothing but shipping actually)
not to mention the problems with the stuff physically failing
All in all, having us drive our cars to a dealer, or downloading some software and plugging our car into our computers to flash ourselves is FAR more appetizing for JHM!
no, I’m bad at that. Because I live and work within a few kms, I never have a long drive to go on where I need to plan for gas…and because the RS4 gets about 400kms per tank and the warning thing comes on with like 70kms to go it just gets easy to ignore it…to your detriment.
It would be cool if the car had an 80 litre tank (around 21 gallons)
The Alpina B10 bi-turbo (an older car I’ve always had a crush on) has a 115 litre tank! It was built for long distance, high speed autobahn cruising (it can go up to 290 km/h). I guess they figured having to stop along the way to gas up wasn’t acceptable