ECU & PCB Repair · Board Level, Not Board Swap

The Module Isn't Scrap.
It's Repairable.

ECU programming, cloning, and adaptation — plus component-level repair of the automotive boards the dealer only knows how to replace. Bricked flashes, blown driver stages, water-damaged BCMs, clusters that won't wake. We diagnose to the component, not to the part number.

ECU · TCU · ABS · BCM · Cluster Bench & Boot Mode BGA & SMD Rework Original Flash Backed Up
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30 minutes. Let's look at it.

Tell us the vehicle, the module, and what it stopped doing. We'll scope the work and give you a realistic read before anything ships.

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1:1
Flash backed up before write
0201
Smallest part reworked
BGA
Reball & reflow in house
Yours
Dumps, logs, and reports

Nobody Diagnoses Past the Part Number.

  • ✗ Dealer diagnosis ends at "replace the module and code it" — at four figures, on a six-week back order
  • ✗ A $3 injector driver fails and the shop condemns the entire engine ECU
  • ✗ An interrupted flash update bricks a module that the scan tool can no longer see to recover
  • ✗ A used module gets fitted and never runs, because nobody adapted it to the car's immobiliser data

Program It Properly. Or Bring It Back.

Two halves of the same skill set. We read, write, and adapt the software side on the bench with the original flash saved first — and we repair the hardware underneath it down to the individual component, with the measurements to prove the fault before anything gets desoldered.

// 01 — ECU PROGRAMMING

Reading, Writing & Adaptation.

Replacement modules that need to become this car's module, and flashes that went wrong and left nothing talking on the bus.

  • Full EEPROM, flash, and MCU reads via OBD, bench, or boot mode
  • ECU cloning — donor module adapted to the original vehicle
  • Virginising and adaptation of replacement ECU, TCU, and BCM units
  • Immobiliser data alignment between engine ECU, BCM, and cluster
  • Bricked and interrupted-flash recovery, including off-bus modules
  • Original dump archived and handed to you with every job
// 02 — PCB BOARD REPAIR

Dead Boards & Obsolete Modules.

No power, no communication, intermittent faults, water ingress, burnt sections — diagnosed to the failing component and repaired, including modules you can no longer buy new.

  • Component-level fault isolation with scope, thermal, and injection
  • Injector, ignition, and solenoid driver stage rebuilds
  • SMD rework to 0201, plus QFN, QFP, and BGA reball and reflow
  • Trace, via, and lifted-pad reconstruction on multilayer boards
  • Water and corrosion damage cleanup with rail-by-rail recovery
  • Cracked solder joints, connector pins, and cluster display repair

From Dead Module to Running Car.

A fixed, documented path with a go/no-go decision point before you're committed to anything.

01
Intake
Module logged and photographed, vehicle data captured
02
Backup
Flash and EEPROM read out and archived before any write
03
Diagnosis
Fault isolated to the component or the corrupted region
04
Repair
Board reworked, module reprogrammed and adapted
05
Return
Bench-tested, returned with dumps, photos, and a report

Tell us what died.

30-minute module consult. Give us the vehicle, the module, the symptoms, and what's already been tried — we'll tell you honestly whether it's worth the bench time. No upsell.

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Common Questions.

Engine ECUs and TCUs, ABS and ESP units, body control modules, instrument clusters, gateway and comfort modules, and the smaller satellites — throttle bodies, AdBlue and glow plug controllers, electronic steering locks. Most of it comes in as a bare module on the bench, which means we aren't limited to what a scan tool can reach through the OBD port.

Usually yes. An interrupted flash normally leaves the bootloader intact and only the application region corrupted, which we rewrite on the bench through the boot-mode pins rather than through the OBD port the tool can no longer reach. Where the bootloader itself is gone, the MCU comes off the board and gets written directly. Tell us what tool was used and where it stopped — that usually predicts the route.

That's the most common job on the bench. We read the donor and, where it exists, your original module, then transfer the vehicle-specific data — immobiliser keys, VIN, variant coding, learned adaptations — so the replacement behaves as the car's own module. Where the original is unreadable we virginise the donor instead and re-learn it to the vehicle. We'll need proof the vehicle is yours.

No. Odometer tampering and programming that disables emissions equipment — DPF, EGR, SCR, or the monitoring that reports on them — are illegal in the markets we work in, and we turn that work away regardless of the reason given. Everything on this page is repair and replacement work: getting a module back to doing what the manufacturer intended.

You get the diagnosis and the evidence behind it. Some failures genuinely aren't worth repairing — delaminated substrate, a burnt section through multiple inner layers, a dead one-off ASIC with no donor — and we'll say so rather than billing bench hours against a lost cause. Where sourcing and adapting a donor module is the cheaper route, we'll quote that instead.