![]() But for us individuals flashing our own <£2k cars - what's the point, take the usual precautions, don't be stupid, expect it to break, if it doesn't, head to the pub. For people who's livelihood is flashing ECUs, then they will happily spend the money on a genuine tool - if I was going to flash paying punters cars for my bread and butter, there's no way I'd be using a £4.99 KWP clone off ebay. Worst case is you need to send it away to be fixed and the prom be flashed in programmer - it'll still be less than buying the genuine item. Failing that SparkFun is a company that caters quite well for hobby engineers and I'd be surprised if you can't find what you need there.I wouldn't go as far as saying an MPPS will "never" fail - NO clone I'd go as far as trusting - end of the day, if you buy a clone, expect to have your ECU bricked, they are made from parts that cost *PENNIES* using crap quality, cheap aluminium cable, most I've seen aren't even copper.įar as I can see - if it doesn't nail your ECU then hooray!! Which reminds me, if you DIY inclined with electronics maybe build your own programmer? There's tons of schematics on the net for this and it will be as cheap as the Chinese import option except that you know exactly what you're getting. Total bill of materials is often sub $20. For the most part a programmer is nothing more than an interface that gets data from the computer, does a few simply electrical things to enable programming mode on a chip, and then spits out data in a format required. My experience with other programmers like those for AVR and PIC is the "Chinese inport types" can often be as good as the original manufacturer's programmer without the ludicrous markup. There are a few native USB options but you'll find these at a higher expense.Īs for Chinese quality, you can pretty much guarantee that regardless if you buy a $10 programmer or a $200 programmer it's going to be made in China. They act no differently then buying a cheap USB->Serial dongle and then working with a serial device. While many think of serial as a throwback to the older ages, many of these programmers are still serial but simply feature an onboard ft232 or similar USB->USART interface. ![]()
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