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ECU's behind stereo - what are they?


Simon

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I believe that there are normally two silver boxes behind the stereo system lying on top of the transmission tunnel. I am led to believe that one of these is the active spoiler ecu (please give me one as I'm missing it) but does anyone know what the second silver box is for please.

 

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Chris,

the plastic boxes sit on top of the radio, and one of them is an antenna relay?. But there are two metal ECUs that sit behind the radio/cd unit on the transmission tunnel, one of them is the active spoiler ecu. I don't know what the other is as there are no lables on it.

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The autobox ECU is beside the engine ECU under the passenger kickwell. The metal ECU's behind the radio, on the transmission tunnel are ABS and active spoiler... And I've got a little black box next to them :conf:

The ones on the radio, are air-con, (cream coloured box), and aerial relay, (smaller brown box).

 

HTH

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The ones on the radio, are air-con, (cream coloured box), and aerial relay, (smaller brown box).

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If anyone knows where I can get one of those cream coloured air con ecu boxes for a 96 NA SZ-R I would be eternally grateful.

 

Have no air conditioning and suffering badly!

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Originally posted by Matt Harwood

I stand to be corrected, but I don't think traction control has a seperate ecu, I believe it's done by the engines ecu... Electronic Throttle Control System?

 

The cruise control ecu is up under the dash, just to the left of the steering.

 

I only mentioned it because while looking through the EPC I saw there was "Computer, Traction Control" (89631-9601)

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Originally posted by Matt Harwood

I stand to be corrected, but I don't think traction control has a seperate ecu, I believe it's done by the engines ecu... Electronic Throttle Control System?

 

The cruise control ecu is up under the dash, just to the left of the steering.

 

UK spec car has a TRAC ecu, long gone in my case

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Originally posted by Thorin

I only mentioned it because while looking through the EPC I saw there was "Computer, Traction Control" (89631-9601)

 

There could well be, I just don't recall seeing one.

There is another ecu next to the engines ecu on a manual car and I'm not sure what that is...

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Guest Martin F

Trac ECU is next to the main engine ECU in the passengers footwell. AFAIK all the autobox functions are integrated into the main engine ECU on the MKIV.

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I've just had a look at the ecu's in the kickwell of the manual.

There are two. a large one which is the main engine ecu and a small one, (about 1/2 the size), with "Throttle Control - MT" written on it... I guess that's self explanatory.

On the auto, the other ecu is almost the same size as the engines ecu. I'll have a look what it has written on that later... I know it has "AT" at least.

 

Just another couple of ecu locations while we're at it... The SRS system is under the armrest of the centre console and there's a little fuel controller in the N/S rear quater.... :innocent:

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