Whatyear and model car is the ecu in?
I've spent a ton of money with Abbott, but I'm no fan of theirs, especially of their ecu's. I don't know what your conversation with them has been but I'm guessing it's been with Giles, who you have to understand is a model example of a salesman, he tells you what you want to here and if he doesn't know the answer he makes something up.
To try and understand their side a little, you didn't buy the ecu from them, so they don't have any records of what was sold and for what application. If it was me I'd call them, tell them what model car you have, and what the problem is, suggest that you fed-x the ecu to them so they can inspect it, determine that it is one of theirs, and that it's for the right model, fix it if there is a problem and send it back to you. You'd be out the freight charges but at least you'd know what you had.

Regarding your toasted turbo. A shop had installed the abbott ecu in my car and since the ecu's do such a crappy job of increasing boost pressure the shop had to tighten the wastegate actuator to increase the boost to the right level. In doing this the actuator no longer opened the wastegate so it didn't take long for the little t-25 to overspeed and lose all the tips off the turbine. You might check the actuator on your car as the only way the abbott ecu (at least on t-5's) will make decent boost is to tighten up the actuator and maybe someone over did it.

Lastly the Abbott distributor in the US is Scanwest in Seattle and they are the best, maybe call, talk to Rob and explain your problem to him.

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• Abbot Sucks!, Saabone, Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:35:08
  • RESPONCE FROM ABBOTT, Saabone, Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:47:20
    • Re: RESPONCE FROM ABBOTT, ckpaden, Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:01:24
      • No longer a..., Saabone, Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:49:14
        • Switch ecu yet., ckpaden, Fri, 5 Sep 2003 05:05:22
          • old ecu in, saabone, Fri, 5 Sep 2003 20:40:25
  • check out that tank, cutic, Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:07:44
  • Re: Abbot Sucks!, sean, Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:52:28 <-- Viewing This Message
  • Re: Abbot Sucks!, Tim, Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:28:36
    • Re: Abbot Sucks!...well not to bad!, JTSAAB, Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:03:16
    • Re: Abbot Sucks!, sean, Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:58:26
  • Hold hard! >, Bill Davies, Wed, 3 Sep 2003 03:27:18
    • You would think, ckpaden, Wed, 3 Sep 2003 06:21:49
      • I hate hearing this ........, jak , Wed, 3 Sep 2003 06:43:31
        • Re: I hate hearing this ........, ckpaden, Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:42:36
        • Should get car back tomorrow, saabone, Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:52:18
  • Re: Abbot Sucks!, saabone, Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:37:55
    • I've been here before so lets try this one together, ckpaden, Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:49:50
      • Re: I've been here before so lets try this one together, Saabone, Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:58:15
        • Re: Was Nick T wrong? He answered this..., Simon S, Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:21:21
          • Your wrong, ckpaden, Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:50:38

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