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Top 4 Causes Of A Failing ECM

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You wouldn't drive a car without an electrical system. After all, no one would want to navigate through traffic without power steering, GPS, or the cooling of an AC. But most importantly, you wouldn't want your car to lack the advantages that come with an ECM. The ECM is short for the engine control module . This part acts as the brains of the modern engine, with a computer that controls various functions related to performance and driving. The ECM is responsible for your fuel supply and injection systems, emission control, and ignition control. In other words, it's related to most parts of the engine, so when it starts to fail, the car starts giving you problems too. But why would a control module fail? Here are a few reasons: Dead Battery: Car batteries are composed of electronic cells that keep working to allow the ECM to function. If any of the car's battery cells go dead, the whole ECM might fail not long after. After all the cells have died, the battery is said to