[gacook]

You may recall I posted on here a couple weeks ago asking for some advice on issues I was having with my 350Z. Well, I got those issues resolved (replaced the MAFS and cleaned some other components) and a couple days later, the CEL came on--P0570, which is too much air. Did some research, found some fixes, yada yada. Light wouldn't clear (read the dealer might have to do it with their special tool), but more disconcerting was that my gas mileage had gone down considerably. So, I decided to take it into Nissan and have them run a diagnostics check and tell me what's up.

Did that yesterday. Took half the day off work, dropped the car off at the dealer, they told me it'd be about an hour so I decided to stick around. Hour and a half later, they come tell me they've killed my computer. Apparently, Nissan had a software update that got pushed via bulletin a few years back and they decided to flash it to my ECM. Got 90% of the way through the program, and then completely erased EVERYTHING from my ECM--it's dead in the water. To make this long story shorter, Nissan (corporate, not local) is paying to have the ECM replaced ($900) but it won't be in until tomorrow. And then they have to run the diagnostics checks I paid for that they haven't even started, yet...

So, take the car in expecting to "lose" an hour of my time to figure out exactly what is up with my car so I can fix it myself (or just have the dealer clear the light)...and end up without the car for 2.5 days.

Bright side is I'm getting a brand new ECM for free...