Vauxhall Zafira A - Zafira Elegance ECU

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Mon 20 Feb 2012 09:56
Vauxhall Zafira A - Zafira Elegance ECU - johnson1983-2009

Hi, my ECU on my Y reg Zafira needs replacing. It is making my car have a slight misfire which will fail the mot on emissions. It has a dozen codes when read and everything else has been ruled out so it must be the ecu. MY question is, do the numbers on the ecu have to match exactly because I'm having trouble finding one that matches but there are others that match my engine but not the numbers on the ecu. Except for the slight misfire the car runs fine.

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Mon 20 Feb 2012 10:23
Vauxhall Zafira A - Zafira Elegance ECU - TeeCee

The GM parts bin is a weird and wonderful place.

I had to replace the Central Locking / Immobiliser ECU on my '99 Zafira recently and like you, had a rotten time tracking down the correct one. Every one I found that purported to be a Zafira module had a different P/N.

Try banging the P/N printed on the outside of the thing into eBay. Worked for me. The part that I got was identical to the original and worked perfectly, although it came off an Astra (and a Spanish one at that). From personal experience, it would appear that early "A" model Zafiras share more parts in common with the Astras of the same period than they do with later Zafira "A"s(!)

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