lee1981

Ah ****!! Can I order one from dealer with the original key from the chassis number?? Or will I get a blank key??

Yes mate just looked like a fob? no key??

Where is the actual key...?? mine was just the fob?? or am I been stupid...??

He's not covered and can't afford to pay irrelevant of court proceedings. My insurance won't pay out as It was on his premises and should have been covered by him.

Whats the car worth the way it is?? any ideas..??

To be honest I agree with everything you are saying but the reality of it is that he is not covered and is not in a position to pay, the other cars gone etc was mainly his own sales cars that was in for repairs, its a **** situation and our friendship is very strained at the minute to say the least, and my car is still stuck down there!!

Knowing my luck with this car I will end up getting the key and then the misfire will end up been something bad so I think I will end up just selling it the way it is :-(

Yes that was the assumption I was under too but it turns out that as the keys for the cars was not in a lockable cabinet they will not pay out!!!1 absolutely gutted, had no luck at all with this car from day one and now this!!

Sooooooo, I am starting to think this car is jinxed!!!! I have been working on the car at my friends garage trying to sort the misfire issue (still no luck), I went on holiday for a week and came back to find out his garage has been broken into and my car keys (both of them as I was stupid enough not to separate them) had been stolen!!! along with all the keys to his cars and all his kit and 2 cars from his garage!!!! The worst new is that I now have a car stuck with no keys and cant move it and my insurance company will not pay out as I had left the keys with the car!!! Any ideas anyone???

Well....... bit of an update, after speaking to lots of people and coming to the conclusion that it would be very unlikely that the ECU would be faulty, I took it back to the main dealer and told them that it had been tested and was all ok and that it must be a wiring fault!! So.... 2 days later I get a phone call saying that the fault is now cured and it was a wiring fault!!!! I went to the dealer today to pick the car up, they charged me 2 hours labour so could not argue with that! I asked if I could speak to the technician which they allowed me to do and basically it turns out that when he plugged the ECU back in the fault disappeared!! so obviously it was a connection fault. The car now starts straight up and fan works as it should etc, but.... it has a misfire on number 1 cylinder!!! so the engine light comes on and the car is really sluggish, the dealer basically said they was not sure what it was and I would have to pay for coils and plugs etc to test first so I decided I am going to try and investigate myself....! So guys any ideas what this misfire could be?? I took the plugs out before when I had the compression test done (which all was ok) and they all looked ok??

To be honest mate as long as I can just plug one in to eliminate the ECU as a fault I can then just prove to the dealers that it is the wiring at fault and not the ECU.

Hi, cheers guys, yes I'm not that happy about the dealer too, they have been a Subaru main dealer for aslong as I can remember but they do seem to be doing more on chrysler s and jeep these days!! Gambit thank you for all that info, I have rang lots of them already last week they are mainly just normal scrap yards, they have a couple of old scooby s but no gen 3s. I'll give the other places a call on Monday. Salsa king- which good point from Rob do you mean..? Does anybody know if it has to be a 330s Ecu or can I just use any..?

Yes that's exactly right mate, would help me out no end and then I can just say to the dealer it is wiring fault!

Thank you, that would be great if you could ask around for me, and yes I'm inclined to believe it would also be a wiring fault. I may have to take to another dealer but once again it will cost me all over again as they will want to charge me and check again what the other dealer has already done! It's a bit of a **** situation and it will also cost to transport it etc, if the other dealers could guarantee me to find the fault I would do it, but it seems no one is willing to do this.

To buy a new ECU or get my one checked, but they cannot guarantee new ECU will work.