Hi dear friends, a latest update regarding buying a PCM for my car. Attached is a list that has what seems to be the best pick for my car so far, it is highlighted in blue and a friend of mine living in Virginia is about to collect and ship it to me. Somehow, I have the following queries indeed:
1. The EPROM of my suspected PCM ( seen here, second attachment) has a serial number and a calibration code too. While the (BJSX) code is there; the serial number ( 16199198 ) differs from the two numbers on the cover of the PCM/label (SERV No. 16183978 ) and (16199183), is this okay?
2. Since I first bought this car in 2006, I had been replacing its engine quite often( We have the least spares of it here in Iraq, they usually replace rather than overhaul, even while using second hand items it looks a better option to them/the mechanics and to us, the customers). Since matching the serial number and calibration code of the old PCM and the one intended to replace that) looks so crucial, may I inquire here: how was it all going alright with 4 engines replacing each other along 15 whole years (one of them was what they call here as the modern 2.4 L QUAD 4 engine having a slightly different bore size and a black fiber air induction manifold differing from the cast one in the rest of QUAD 4 engines)? No one ever mentioned the PCM all these years, just replace the engine and move on! The same PCM with its same EPROM had been controlling all those 4 engines so what was the PCM actually doing communicating with different engines using the same data in its EPROM? I am dazzled.
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Saturday, August 28th, 2021 AT 5:01 PM