Why not just buy a reman mopar PCM and have it program. You have to have the right vin and mileage in the PCM,which you program with a scanner.And buying a controller off ebay is not a good ideal. First of all is the seller going to progam the vin and any key codes for the skim module if you have one?

 

If you buy a reman Chrysler then you buy it and have to have them program it. A reputable company on Ebay can do it and send it ready right to your door. Yea it's an Ebay company, but i f you buy it from a good company then your set.

 

I tried all 3 ebay companies that currently had this item for sale. The first one was out of stock for 5.9L PCMs and didn't know when they'd be getting one, so they canceled my order. The second one claimed they had some kind of flooding in their warehouse and all their orders were on hold, so they canceled my order too! The third and final one was AutoComputerExchange, which has gotten some bad press on this forum. But since they were my last option other than taking it to the dealer to get bent over, I figured what the h*ll and ordered from them.

I did have two problems with ACE rebuilders. First was that I paid extra for overnight shipping. They did technically ship it using UPS next day air... but it took them 4 days to mail it in the first place, which kind of defeats the purpose of express shipping! The second problem was that it was DOA on arrival, the dreaded "no bus" error and flashing odomoter mileage. I called them and complained, they were very nice about it and overnighted me a second unit. The 2nd PCM really did actually arrive "next day" and worked just fine. I returned my dead PCM core to them along with the non-working 1st replacement PCM they had sent me.

So all in all, I got a working PCM from these guys, perfectly coded to my VIN and keys etc., although there were some frustrations along the way. Total charges were $379 including the express shipping fee. I don't know how much a dealer would have charged me, or how much I woulda paid for a new Mopar PCM that I then had to have programmed locally, but I bet it woulda been a lot more than $379. The only remaining problem is that by the time they finally got me a working PCM, I had put 400 miles on the truck, so now there's a ~400 mile discrepancy between the dashboard odometer and the PCM mileage, but I guess that's not a huge deal. I'm planning on driving this truck till the engine falls out of it, so not really too concerned with any potential impacts this might have on resellability.

So overall I am content with my purchase from ACM, and now the check engine light is off. It did really suck to have all the runaround, and at one point I had to make a 100 mile out of town drive on my bad old PCM with the CEL on, with the wife and kids in the car, and I was pretty worried that I'd have a breakdown with the bad PCM on the way, so that was furstrating. But ACE's customer service was good and they did eventually get me a working unit at no additional cost to me, so I guess I can't really complain too awful much.

 

Well sorry you had such issues but it happens!


As for 400 miles, that isn't too bad, so I would call it because what about towing? I mean there is always a lil discrepancy.

 

As long as there's some kind of documentation you drove the 400 miles and the reason why, there should be no problems with the discrepency.