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Old 04-22-2009, 10:22 PM
Texholdem Texholdem is offline
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Originally Posted by TMAllison View Post
The "computer" ECU everyone thinks the OP is referring to is married to the car after ~40 starts through DAS....I think. Keeps someone from swapping thier computer into your car and starting it with their key in very simplistic terms.

If it goes bad you get a new one and it gets programmed to the car using SDS.
The 1996 & 1997 W210 still have blade key, nothing to do with ECU. So looks like the whole no-swapping/mo-replacing applies only to newer W210's
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