hello from Sunny South Africa

ive been in the automotive field for years and have my own shop originally specialized only in performance and maintenance mostly mechanically (porting and such) but before that studied to be a electronic engineer

most off my knowledge is from my studies (helps understand 60%) and balance is self taught/learnt

obviously with advances in ecus and can bus systems taking over most vehicles , from basic functions to the advanced functions moved into remapping and diagnostics more and more , now almost primarily focusing on it with less and less mechanical work sadly

my first big learning curve was on my own car Audi b8 s4 bcm2 getting a short and blowing having to be replaced , started by taking it to someone who said they could clone it (got it back with corrupted eeprom ) and damaged new and old pcb so had to do a bcm2 replacement got a donor from a a4 1.8t manual by matching part numbers

It took me a while to get it done (3 weeks) from the day it happened till car worked 100% including buying tools (4 before the right tool) and trying to find info and figuring it out as i went along. I didn't understand the virtual and physical eeprom in the beginning and info if you don't know what to search for is difficult to find ,as well as I only had a Delphi ds150e when i started

the point I'm at now is ecus repairs and mapping and still learning and struggling here and there with some of the most odd cases were i could find almost 0 information about the issues (seems i attract strange problems vag simos ecu stuck in developer mode for no reason for example) and starting to develop my own software for tuning and diagnostics (still along way away) which i have a bit more knowledge about

hope i didn't bore you with my introduction and i look forward to learning a lot from you guys and hopefully can contribute a tiny bit