I installed a sound system last night and everything was going great... I was finishing up when i tried to fasten down my plastic door trim piece with a self tapping screw. I remembered the bundle of computer wires underneath a little too late. I hit the bundle of wires under the drivers side kick panel with a self tapping screw... Because I'm a moron. I repaired the pictured wires but I fried the ECU so it would barely start, and when it did the throttle didn't work until half way down, and the rev limiter was kicking in at 2000 RPM. Not to mention I had more than 9 OBD2 error codes. All the error codes (that I could read) were for air flow sensors, throttle sensors, and stuff like that... It blew the breaker that controls my power locks as well. All in all, not a good night.
I checked every fuse i could get my hands on, I pulled the EFI fuse for an hour, and I pulled the little 4x4 computer box out of the kick panel and visually inspected the circuit board inside and couldn't see any damage.
Here's the wires I hit.
After I determined it was probably the computer and took it to a dealer to diagnose. They really weren't too much help. Took them 2 days to tell me what i already knew... it was probably the computer but they weren't sure. It was $370 in dealer fees, plus $150 for the computer. They were taking forever, and after waiting for 3 hours I ended up asking for my new computer back (I had given it to them to install). and I ended up putting it in myself while the technician stood there and watched, and then they took another hour to "flash" the computer... I'm not very impressed with how it went. I work nights right now too, so when i got the computer at 11am i went straight to the dealership... i wasn't back in bed until 4:00pm. not good for the night shift i'm currently working. And when i put the computer in the truck started right up. they said it's better to flash it with your vin, but not completely necessary. Basically I paid them $370 to tell me when i already knew, and then program my computer with secret numbers that make her run real good like! But at least it's all together now. The sound system sounds good too!
