Flex Recover Ford Transit SID211 ECU After Bricked by OBD

It’s a Ford Transit 2.0Tdci with SID211 ECU. The car owner flashed his car via OBD and something happened because there was no communication with ECU.

No further communication with Ecu no reading or writing further allowed.

 

You need to recover this ECU in boot mode.

Boot mode involving separating the ecu from the case with both sides of the motherboard needing a connection, soldering a boot line under the capacitor and a top level connection.
Full read allowed including map area and eeprom and then a full install of stock software & the back up eeprom fil which was corrupted during the obd programming.

 

Magic Motorsport Flex will recover this ECU in boot mode.

Flip the board from the Ecu case with glue on the underside and on the top of the resistors an absolute ball ache to seperate however patience and being carefull it can be done
With 2 boot pads on the PCB one on the top and one under the capacitor that needs lifting out of its cradle
A full restore is then performed restoring all communication.

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Foxflash also recovers this ECU by boot.

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If you need to read Ford Transit/Transit Custom SID211 ECU via OBD, Autotuner and Flex are safe to read (full read).  If it doesn’t start after, just disconnect the battery for 30 seconds.

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