Originally Posted by
Fritz123
Totally took my battery out of the car for about 3 months using it in one of my muscle cars to drive to work So thats out of the question.
Changed the connector plate, it went smooth and nice. New filter too.
Took out the fuse for the alarm because it was driving me insane going off for no reason at all. Now I cant lock the car at all, it seems they are all tied together. If I lock it its locked till I smash a window. LOL
Have set and drank a few gallons of beer cursing it for being a very nice looking yard ornament, but thats all I have done to it.
Fritz
You could try using a tennis ball to push air through the key hole since we don't exactly have mechanical locks. Just cut a small hole in it.
Not having a battery in the car for that long could have possibly wiped or corrupted some of the data that the ECU needs so reprogramming sounds plausible. I work network admin stuff for the Air Force so I don't know the most about hardware.
At $1400 though I would think they are just replacing the ECU and not reprogramming it.