muttley 0 Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 Hi guysdo i have to take my TB off the car to clean it or can it be done still attached, coz i read somewhere that if i take it off i have to have the UCU resetCheersJohn Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Seabrook 4 Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 you can have a look and see if it needs cleaning while it's on the car but to properly clean it you do need to take it off mate - and you only need to reset the ecu if your car is obd2 Link to post Share on other sites
muttley 0 Posted December 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 oh thats good then, mine is a obd1cheers Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Seabrook 4 Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 lucky then !! re-setting the ECU is only disconneting the battery or 5 mins as well mate so not tricky Link to post Share on other sites
MJ Vr6 79 Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 you can have a look and see if it needs cleaning while it's on the car but to properly clean it you do need to take it off mate - and you only need to reset the ecu if your car is obd2 No you dont.Reseting the ECU is not needed at all..Regardless OBD1 or 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Seabrook 4 Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 you can have a look and see if it needs cleaning while it's on the car but to properly clean it you do need to take it off mate - and you only need to reset the ecu if your car is obd2 No you dont.Reseting the ECU is not needed at all..Regardless OBD1 or 2why's that ?? I was told that the reason for re-setting is that people have reported power lost after long period's of driving, as if the ECU had lost its knowledge ( was again finding the parameters for the position of the throttle with idle etc) of the sensor values and therefore disconneting the battery elimates this problem. Link to post Share on other sites
MJ Vr6 79 Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 Ben, naa not really mate, fixes it istantainiously! never had no issue to reset battery or VAGCOM'in it! We have done loads, never an issue dude!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Seabrook 4 Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 ah cool well saves me messing about waiting next time then mate :) another day another thing learnt !! Link to post Share on other sites
MJ Vr6 79 Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 I had an issue 2 years back on Throttle sensor-obvioulsy the throttle itself, found that I lost performance, took the Bi*** apart, cleaned and slapped it back on, felt the improvment, no need of disconnection on battery etc! Then the bi*** played up again, ended up replacing, no probs, no disconnection. Link to post Share on other sites
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