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It’s International Repair Day, and we’re celebrating with a giveaway! 🛠️
We’re giving away 3 Pro Tech Go toolkits on each social platforms! To enter, tell us about a repair you’re proud of in the comments. A cracked screen you brought back, a vintage console you revived, we want to hear them all
📅 Closes Sunday Oct 18 at 11:59 PM PT
🏆 3 winners will be randomly selected Monday Oct 19
Sorry, international fixers, shipping limits mean this one’s US only, but we’d still love to hear your stories!
Schmaker
in reply to iFixit • •I don't mind you not shipping to #EU, just want to share. Also - I know it's not that much related to tools on picture :D
My top fix was a #Proton #Putra #car that kept frying ECUs for apparently no reason. Even though I am educated in fixing cars, i never actually done it except on my own, so I had literally zero experience on troubleshooting problem like that.
Symptom was the car fried a single part (something like two transistors combined) within #ECU, after which car never started again. After plugging in new ECU, car worked flawlessly for like 10 minutes, before the part fried itself again.
With the ECU outside I managed to pinpoint this transistor output pin using multimeter and the pin was controlling valve on throttle body, that had shorted coil from coolant leak.
As hobbyist it took me months to find out. I did it outside the appartment building, sometimes baby started crying into baby monitor, so I had to quit earlier, but I made it eventually and am seriously proud of that! :)
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j4n3z, blowupguy 🧜🏻♀️🏳️🌈, TBDanyday a Kepi like this.