pROJECT mAYHEM Update III

No success on finding someone who can get the ECU rebuilt - every potential lead turns into yet another wasted phone call.

No success on finding the donor parts to transplant to pROJECT mAYHEM.

Cost of a new ECU from VW - £914.22 plus a further £35 or thereabouts on getting it all synched up and as if that wasn't enough VW want to run their own diagnostics to check it all out before they order a replacement ECU as if the ECU is not at fault then it can't be returned.

I fucking hate this - there seems to be no respite, no let up, nothing. Here I am trying to live out my own small dream and it is turning into a nightmare of such massive proportions that I am questioning whether I actually have it in me to see it through to the end. The thing is deep in my heart I know that I have to see it through to the end, I can't walk away no matter how tempting it is because the stubborn streak that resides within me won't let me. I am at one with Sisyphus.

The Gap Sequence

Been reading Stephen Donaldsons "The Gap Sequence" - I am currently about a 130 pages into the third book in the series and it is just getting steadily more addictive.

Nominally Sci-fi it is seriously dark in places to say the least dealing with rape, psychological trauma and extremes of violence it just keeps building and building interwoven plot lines one over the other to a point where you have no idea whose agenda is whose and what their real intentions are. The one thing you do know is that as soon as you think you have half an idea what someones agenda is it will all be pulled out from underneath you with an entirely plausible but unexpected twist of the plot.

Go and buy this book but be warned it is not easy reading...

pROJECT mAYHEM update II

pROJECT mAYHEM is slowly but surely turning into a money pit of infinite proportions it would seem. The ECU came back with the imnmobiliser turned off and it made no difference to the issues that it is suffering so the ECU is at fault - if I thought that things couldn't get any worse I was proved wrong on a grand scale.

The mission now is to to either get the ECU rebuilt, find a replacement one from a breakers yard or buy a new one from VW. All of these scenarios have issues - getting the ECU rebuilt is going to be hard as it is such a new van and from preliminary investigations the guys out there who do this sort of work haven't get the tech to do this yet. Replacing the ECU with one from a breaker also requires that the immobiliser and the keys are taken from the same vehicle as the three are all interlinked together - replace one or two parts and it simply won't work so it is all three parts or bust. The final option is to take it to a dealer which is going to be rape of epic proportions on a financial scale.

Doom, fucking doom!!