There is an episode of the Sitcom Home Improvement that deals with this. Jill lets her Nomad run out of oil and Tim gets mad. The episode is Nothing More Than Feelings, (Season 1 Episode 7) it aired Oct 29, 1991- and I remember watching it as a new episode.
Been saying it for a year. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ not to mention, you can just re-bench unlock. Not only is $400 not an amount of money for anyone that purchased a 50-60k dollar car, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than smashing into someone and wasting your time dealing with that.
As far as I know, no one's blown a clutch pack seal yet, but 10000x will wait for a few updates before I pull the trigger.
edit: I write (well wrote, I'm just an architect [read: glorified manager] these days), but I know how bad humans are at writing software. I'll wait.
I did not go through someone reputable. I used myself, I am not reputable. Things worked out.
tl;dr everyone who wants to ship an ECU overseas should pay someone who knows what they're doing to do it. Saves a lot of stress.
Sort of! But not quite. For everyone not familiar with CANBus, CANBus is the network that electronics in your car travel over (how the body control module talks to the DME, and how the steering wheel buttons change the cruise control). It's like a little isolated internet for your car, except it...