General All MK2/2B Punto owners take note - E.C.U THEFT

[s and b]

seen another today
getting common
be warned these arent cheap to replace

 

[oldhammer]

seen another today
getting common
be warned these arent cheap to replace

Thanks for the heads up,

iwonder if theres a way to make these hard to remove?

anti tamper nuts or Armour up in someway,?

 

[oldhammer]

POLICE are Now WARNING of This!!

Not good

 

[oldhammer]

im thinking something like these:

what ya rekon?

 

[wrightyy]

How are they taking them?

 

[oldhammer]

How are they taking them?

ripping the bonnets up, :bang:

theres ared punto near me,seen it the other week with bonnet all bar'd
up didnt think much of it until now, (all adds up now)

its an old ladys car too, most probs had it from new,

we is having trouble with Romanians in the area, all sorts is going missing,
theving scumbags,

 

[wrightyy]

We really need to think of someway to make it impossible to remove the ecu

 

[Alsatian1]

Sorry if a stupid question but just curious, why puntos in particular and what do the thieves do with ecu's?

 

[oldhammer]

We really need to think of someway to make it impossible to remove the ecu

deffo,


ive just had a swift sniff round google, its only oldham/shaw/saddleworth
mentioned so far for the thefts,

im also thinking this is motorbike related, (ducati shares same ecu, ithink)
but imight be wrong,

what else wouid they steal them for? weird,

 

[oldhammer]

Sorry if a stupid question but just curious, why puntos in particular and what do the thieves do with ecu's?

That not a stupid question

id like to know too,

 

[rc822]

After reading this I'm glad my mk2b has an alarm.... Can't wait to find out why there are doing this though.

 

[Davren]

what else wouid they steal them for? weird,

eBay search for punto ECU comes up with over 10 pages of them.
.

 

[jon1612]

eBay search for punto ECU comes up with over 10 pages of them.
.

This is crazy, cant understand why either.
best way to stop this is a simple alarm on the bonnet, ok they will bar it but as soon as bonnet lifted a little alarm goes off until you disable it
and you can leave on all the time never forget to turn on
can have a switch inside car to turn off when you need to get in there yourself
if anyone is interested i can do a circuit for it parts will cost you about a tenner might save you having car disabled and a lot of expense

 

[dave]

this just 8v or 16v too, are they damaging bonnets to get them open?

 

[FatherJack]

First it was catalytic converters now this

 

[PuntoHowTo]

Added this warning to my Punto How To facebook page, thats another 500+ punto owners aware that might not have heard

 

[oldhammer]

Added this warning to my Punto How To facebook page, thats another 500+ punto owners aware that might not have heard

Not sure if its just 2004/2005 affected here mate,

policed didnt give much info on age of punto's.

iwill find failbook link and post it up here to show,

 

[PuntoHowTo]

Not sure if its just 2004/2005 affected here mate,

policed didnt give much info on age of punto's.

iwill find failbook link and post it up here to show,

That info was taken from the Facebook link cars 54 - 55 most effected

 

[oldhammer]

@ andy.

here is link mate, https://www.facebook.com/ILoveSHAW/posts/505342349578060

i dont have f/b account or id fish for abit of info,
but they might not reply anyway,

 

[oldhammer]

That info was taken from the Facebook link cars 54 - 55 most effected

ah rite, cheers

just seen it now,