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chrisdrs
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« on: May 11, 2024, 09:14:19 AM »

Hi fellas, since I probably fried my ecu, I’m in between two choices at the moment for a replacement. I found an M-box ecu (part#8D0907551M) with immo off, and a GIAC chipped ecu with immo off. I don’t have the part number for the giac ecu but I know it came from an S4 with the APB engine. My car is a 2002 Allroad with APB engine. Question is, which do you think is a better choice? I’m not familiar with the giac chip and I’m curious if I will be able to do any adjustments with Nefmoto flasher if necessary.


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« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2024, 11:04:16 AM »

You need to see what maf sensor you have, some apb are hitachi and others are bosch, m box does not have a immo from the factory anyway. What you can do is flash a m box file to any apb ecu and it will disable the immo. Provided its manual. I mention this because you can find stock allroad and a6 ecus listed up cheaper than a s4 ecu, they are all the same at the hardware level.
 
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« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2024, 02:54:14 PM »

You need to see what maf sensor you have, some apb are hitachi and others are bosch, m box does not have a immo from the factory anyway. What you can do is flash a m box file to any apb ecu and it will disable the immo. Provided its manual. I mention this because you can find stock allroad and a6 ecus listed up cheaper than a s4 ecu, they are all the same at the hardware level.
 
Well the GIAC ecu is only $100 and that’s cheaper than anything I’ve found. Can’t I recalibrate the maf map if necessary? Or I’ll just swap the maf if needed


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