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Can a broken locking clip on the ecm cause my car to randomly go into limp mode?
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So the people that owned this car before I did hit a deer and their insurance company me basically junked the car. When I bought it from a used car place close to my town, it was considered a salvaged title. The problem doesn't happen during the wintertime so when I talk about having issues it's always in warmer weather never in the wintertime The problem I'm having doesn't happen during the wintertime for some reason & it happens at random. So when I talk about having this issue, it's always in warmer weather, never in the wintertime. The first few years it didn't really go into limp mode much at all. The guy at the used car place told me when it goes into limp mode, to go under the hood & kind of just press the connectors up tight to the ECM. Got old real quick. After being irritated 1 day so bad because it was happening so frequently (even on the interstate), I was looking at it & I noticed there was this blue silicone adhesive stuff all the way around one of the connectors on the ECM & there was no locking mechanism on it. I took that adhesive off & for over a year, it did not go into limp mode at all. But for the last 2 years, once winter's gone, it randomly does it again. Sometimes it goes into limp mode multiple times just from one-stop sign to the next. I bought a code reader & changed a few things including a stupid throttle position sensor that was probably just fine but my ex-boyfriend opened the box so I had no choice but to use it (there was a no open box return policy). Is it possible that just the locking mechanism being broke on that ecm connector is what causes it to randomly go into limp mode?
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Discussion starter · #1 · 2d ago
So the people that owned this car before I did hit a deer and their insurance company me basically junked the car. When I bought it from a used car place close to my town, it was considered a salvaged title. The problem doesn't happen during the wintertime so when I talk about having issues it's always in warmer weather never in the wintertime The problem I'm having doesn't happen during the wintertime for some reason & it happens at random. So when I talk about having this issue, it's always in warmer weather, never in the wintertime. The first few years it didn't really go into limp mode much at all. The guy at the used car place told me when it goes into limp mode, to go under the hood & kind of just press the connectors up tight to the ECM. Got old real quick. After being irritated 1 day so bad because it was happening so frequently (even on the interstate), I was looking at it & I noticed there was this blue silicone adhesive stuff all the way around one of the connectors on the ECM & there was no locking mechanism on it. I took that adhesive off & for over a year, it did not go into limp mode at all. But for the last 2 years, once winter's gone, it randomly does it again. Sometimes it goes into limp mode multiple times just from one-stop sign to the next. I bought a code reader & changed a few things including a stupid throttle position sensor that was probably just fine but my ex-boyfriend opened the box so I had no choice but to use it (there was a no open box return policy). Is it possible that just the locking mechanism being broke on that ecm connector is what causes it to randomly go into limp mode?