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TOPIC: ECM stolen! 1994 Civic EX KA5MT
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.makers.honda/t/efa9267daf3e957f?hl=en
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== 1 of 5 ==
Date: Tues, Mar 22 2011 7:09 am
From: Elle
On Mar 20, 8:06 pm, abeness <n...@nada.net> wrote:
> I also found a post that pointed me to http://car-part.com, which looks
> useful as a salvage part clearing house.
I remember using car-part.com a few years ago. Wrecking yards across
the country use it to list parts rather exactingly. The names and
contact info come up when one does a search there. I called a number
of junkyards at the time and all seemed legitimate.
Try also http://www.olstons.com/ . I bought a pulley from them
sometime in the last seven years and was pleased with the used part,
service, and price.
The guys at honda-tech.com change ECUs out all the time.
== 2 of 5 ==
Date: Wed, Mar 23 2011 4:29 pm
From: Tegger
abeness <none@nada.net> wrote in news:4d873a87$0$2196$607ed4bc@cv.net:
> On 3/21/2011 2:33 AM, Tegger wrote:
>> abeness<none@nada.net> wrote in
>> news:4d86b27e$0$12987$607ed4bc@cv.net:
>>> Meaning, if I take
>>> a part #37820-P28-A02 ECM from another 1992-95 Civic and pop it into
>>> mine, it won't work "out of the box"?
>>
>>
>> It's plug-and-play. No worries.
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> Doesn't often fail, but appears to be frequently stolen, probabl yon
>> account of how easy they are to reach. My impression is that thefts
>> have declined over the years as fewer and fewer of these cars remain
>> on the road.
>
> Guess not in Brooklyn... ;-) I must've been lucky all these years.
>
> Thanks, Tegger. You (and your site) were very helpful when I first
> started working on this vehicle, and here you are again.
Glad to help.
> Always good
> to know there's a nice crew of Honda users right over here.
Less and less involvement from me, though. The site is growing gradually
more and more outdated, as I've had less and less time to do much more than
answer quick questions here and there.
Usenet in general is dying; it doesn't attract nearly the audience it once
did.
--
Tegger
== 3 of 5 ==
Date: Wed, Mar 23 2011 4:46 pm
From: abeness
Thanks, Elle. Nice to see you still here. I ordered one from a yard in
MO for $95 shipped. Hard to beat THAT price! Now I just hope that the
traffic cops here are kind. We have alternate side parking regs that
mean we have to move the car several times a week for street cleaning,
and the part won't be here till Fri or Mon (depending on how lazy our
UPS guy is feeling). So far so good.
I gotta say, that salvage yards are putting parts online is rather
amazing. Makes perfect sense, of course.
On 3/22/2011 10:09 AM, Elle wrote:
> On Mar 20, 8:06 pm, abeness<n...@nada.net> wrote:
>> I also found a post that pointed me to http://car-part.com, which looks
>> useful as a salvage part clearing house.
>
> I remember using car-part.com a few years ago. Wrecking yards across
> the country use it to list parts rather exactingly. The names and
> contact info come up when one does a search there. I called a number
> of junkyards at the time and all seemed legitimate.
>
> Try also http://www.olstons.com/ . I bought a pulley from them
> sometime in the last seven years and was pleased with the used part,
> service, and price.
>
> The guys at honda-tech.com change ECUs out all the time.
== 4 of 5 ==
Date: Wed, Mar 23 2011 5:00 pm
From: abeness
On 3/23/2011 7:29 PM, Tegger wrote:
> Usenet in general is dying; it doesn't attract nearly the audience it once
> did.
Yeah, it's pretty sad. I hadn't noticed just how sparse the posting has
been here in past months. Another board I frequent is practically dead,
too, though that's in large part because the software it concerns hasn't
been updated in almost 10 years. It's only "old-timers" that know about
NNTP these days, and its port was off by default on my school's firewall.
Personally, I despise the web-based boards a-la phpBB and the like.
Though they have some advantages, I'm of the old-school, preferring
clean, plain-text Internet communication. Heck, I read my email in
monospaced Courier most of the time...
So what are the successors to this board? honda-tech.com, which Elle
mentioned? What else? Ultimately I'm just curious, since I won't have a
car soon.
== 5 of 5 ==
Date: Wed, Mar 23 2011 7:10 pm
From: Tegger
abeness <none@nada.net> wrote in news:4d8a89b4$0$10153$607ed4bc@cv.net:
> On 3/23/2011 7:29 PM, Tegger wrote:
>> Usenet in general is dying; it doesn't attract nearly the audience it
>> once did.
>
> Yeah, it's pretty sad. I hadn't noticed just how sparse the posting
> has been here in past months. Another board I frequent is practically
> dead, too, though that's in large part because the software it
> concerns hasn't been updated in almost 10 years. It's only
> "old-timers" that know about NNTP these days, and its port was off by
> default on my school's firewall.
>
> Personally, I despise the web-based boards a-la phpBB and the like.
> Though they have some advantages, I'm of the old-school, preferring
> clean, plain-text Internet communication. Heck, I read my email in
> monospaced Courier most of the time...
My big problem with Web is that all the Web boards I've tried or looked at
have an extremely high glitz-to-information ratio. By that I mean messages
occupy 10% of the screen, and images, smileys, flashy ads, and white space
occupy the other 90%.
>
> So what are the successors to this board? honda-tech.com, which Elle
> mentioned? What else?
I've lurked in honda-tech.com. It's an appalling hodgepodge of ricers,
aftermarket junkies, clueless newbies, near-illiterates, me-too'ers,
halitosis-sufferers, voluntary shut-ins, Walmart shoppers, flood-pants-
wearers, navel-noodlers, people who refuse to move to the rear of the bus
as others get on, and other unfortunates. And it's typical of /all/ Web
boards. Maybe I'm too old, but I just can't take to it. If Web-board
software at least had THREADING and a killfile, I might change my mind.
But then again, most of those aformentioned defectives used to inhabit
Usenet before they deserted for the glitter of Web boards, so I guess I'm
not missing much...
> Ultimately I'm just curious, since I won't have a car soon.
And staying that way?
--
Tegger
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