Okay, now this is weird. I have two ECU's of the same #, 557P...

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08-17-2006, 08:19 PM

D Spin

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Okay, now this is weird. I have two ECU's of the same #, 557P...

One will let me recode the soft code to Auto/Quattro and the other will not, what gives? This seems so strange, there must be a way to change it!! It's driving me nuts, anyone have something to try?

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08-17-2006, 08:27 PM

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Paging GilliamOS or TwentyValveB5, from the forums, it looks like you've had some experience...

with this sort of thing, any ideas? TwentyValveB5, did you ever figure out a way to code your ECU for quattro or has it been working just fine coded for FWD?

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08-17-2006, 08:36 PM

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Sounds to me like you are locked out of one of them...

Possibly you need to enter a WSC(workshop code) for that one that isn't letting you recode.

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08-17-2006, 08:59 PM

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I gave that a shot and tried one that GilliamOS mentioned in one of his posts..

but no luck, also now that WSC seems to be locked in!

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08-17-2006, 10:14 PM

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i was paged! woohoo

since quattro on our cars is 100% mechanical, the ECU doesn't really care. all that matters is that the tranny is coded correctly.

you'll be fine.

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08-17-2006, 11:34 PM

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2nd..

my ecu thoguth the car was fwd for about 2 yrs, never had a problem.

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08-18-2006, 10:31 AM

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Any idea if the same thing applies to Fwd? Does it matter if the ECU is coded for..

FWD without ASR or FWD with ASR for a Fwd car?

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08-18-2006, 11:03 PM

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Hmm...

Sorry I did see this sooner. I search everynow and then for people paging my help. I can't remember my coding for my 557 N box, but I did have the same issue. It was more important to recode for me because I was going from a manual tranny to a auto.

I ended up entering 65655 for my WSC and 06051 for my soft code.