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- From: donald.wendel@yob.sccsi.com (Donald Wendel)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Car Computers/Modifie
- Message-ID: <6276.196.uupcb@yob.sccsi.com>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 18:46:00 GMT
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- Organization: Ye Olde Bailey BBS - Houston, TX - 713-520-1569
- Reply-To: donald.wendel@yob.sccsi.com (Donald Wendel)
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- >>>Subject: Re: Car Computers/Modified Chips
- >>>Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 15:57:12 GMT
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- WE>>>Here is a basic question about computers/chips.
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- WE>>>One of the complaints, as we went from carburetors to computer-controlled
- >>>fuel injection, was that a simple computer failure could leave you
- >>>stranded, far from home, near no replacement, and when you got the
- >>>replacement it was terribly expensive. A friend of mine has mentioned
- >>>a "limp home" mode; I admit that maybe this pertains to failure of
- >>>one of the sensors such as temperature, engine speed, etc., rather than
- >>>failure of the computer itself.
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- WE>>>Do any manufacturers currently have this feature, so that if you break dow
- >>>you can possibly at least make it back home, however inefficiently? If so
- >>>the failure sensed by the computer, by a separate small computer, or is it
- >>>by the driver throwing a little switch someplace?
- >>>--
- >>>Brendan Welch, UMass/Lowell, W1LPG, welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
- The only catastrophic failures I have seen with car computers has been
- after a vehicle has gone through high enough water that it soaked the
- computer, particulary on Nissans. Also has occured on Renaults.
- Don
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- * SLMR 2.1a * I put spot remover on my dog....Spots gone!
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