Electronic module question

HWess · Oct 7, 2011

Is there a predicted life for the electronic module? My pickup left me on the road at 100,000 miles, friend had same problem with his car. Is age a factor? Both were about 10 years old. Is there a time when a person should change it before it goes bad? Could ask the same thing about the water pump and fuel pump.

oldtanker · Oct 7, 2011

Not really. No way to really tell how long anything is going to last. Some vehicles will have a reputation for early failures but thats not the norm. Some Fords had the modual that screwed on the side of the dizzy that were failure prone but some would last forever and others died young. On electricts like that the best way to repiar it is to buy the best quality part available. Sometimes companies like Blue Streak and Echlin actually make a better replacement than OEM.

As far as water pumps and other hard parts, are they OEM? If so can't really say. Some designs are not the best and toher times it's the operator and how they care for things. In general most OEM parts like that will out last after market and remans.

About the only time you will find me replacing something that isn't broke is when rebuilding an engine. Then I always insatll and new oil pump, water pump and rebuild the ignition system. I also have the stater and alt bench tested too.

Rick

old · Oct 7, 2011

As for when to replace to many variables come into play. Since you and your friend live in the same area that can be part of it but say you lived a 1000 miles from there you might have gotten 80,000 or maybe 200,000 before it went bad. Now things like transmission filter and fuel filter yes they should be changed about every 50K

Dell (WA) · Oct 7, 2011

hwess........that is like asking when will yer electric litebulb burn out??? ...or... yer TV set??? General rule, run'um till they stop. Age is NOT a factor ...but... HEAT is the enemy of ennythang electronic. More common failure is corroded connections. .........Dell, retired electronics engineer

Old Roy · Oct 7, 2011

reason for no warranty at most auto parts stores on electrical items.

JMOR · Oct 7, 2011

(quoted from post at 19:04:36 10/07/11) reason for no warranty at most auto parts stores on electrical items.

ctually, the reason for no warranty on electrical parts is that the primary reason for returns is that some shade tree jake leg scr3wed up the new part!

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