Chip on EBay

[snowsedan04]

What's the story with this chip? At less than the price of a gallon of gas, it must be a joke, right?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7923382788

 

[///M SPEED]

**Poof** There goes your warrantee.....

 

[Kirby]

Probably software piracy. You've seen those ads for Windows for $5, right? Same deal. The guy got his hands on somebody's chip, put it in a chip programmer, downloaded the code, and now burns his own chips and sells them.

 

[Wretchy]

but it still works , yes?

 

[Kirby]

Hehe, it should, assuming he copied it correctly and didn't intentionally sabotage, kinda like a virus, it to be a prick. If he did, well, as ///M Speed said ....... "POOF"

It's tempting, I would like to chip my 325, but I'm not sure I want to take that risk.

 

[wood_e]

What that is I bleieve is just a resistor to tell the computer that colder air is coming in. It's a fraud... you get what you pay for. If anything your car will run rich and might mess up your O2 sensors and your catalayic converters...

 

[jrt67ss350]

Yeah, it can't be a "chip," because OBDII isn't "chippable" since they don't use removable PROMs. To update the PCM software, you have to have a device to basically reflash the PCM software.

 

[Big Daddy]

I emailed him out of curosity asking about the "product", playing dumb (ok so maybe I wasn't playing), but I would not put that in my car. We will see if he responds.

 

[Kirby]

What that is I bleieve is just a resistor to tell the computer that colder air is coming in. It's a fraud... you get what you pay for. If anything your car will run rich and might mess up your O2 sensors and your catalayic converters...

Really? And here I thought this guy was a scumbag software pirate, and he's really just a lowlife scam artist.

Good point about the OBDI/II software. I was thinking about the E36 325 w/OBDI and forgot that the OBDII was flashable.