Smarty "Wrong VIN" - Looking for DRB help in Detroit Metro Area

[Semicrazy]

Well I recieved my Smarty yesterday morning. Tried to download a few times yesterday and kept getting the "Wrong Vin" error. So I called Bob yesterday afternoon and he said that on the early 03s the last 4 digits for the VIN in the ECM can be missing.



So I was wondering if anyone in the Detroit Metro area has a DRBIII tool or knows someone at a dealer that would be willing to help?



I found a few other thread of similar occurances, and it seems like it only takes 5 minutes to fix to program the VIN into the ECM.



I tried calling my local dealer down the street and explain the situation to the service manager, but he was like a greedy baby, he could not understand what I was talking about and all he could think about was the flat rate fee just to hook up the DRB. #@$%! And I could not find any TSBs about this.



Bob said that if I could not find anyone to help he would get Marco to write a recovery file for my ECM, but if I can save everyone the hassle I would prefer that.



PS - If anyone needs a GM Tech2, I have easy access to one if you are ever working on a GM vehicle.



Thanks,

Nate

 

[Semicrazy]

I just tried another dealer... lady this time... I told her I just 5 minutes of time to put the VIN in my ECM. She said any non warranty work is a flat rate minimum 1 hour charge of $85 dollars, even if it only takes five minutes. What a load of ****! It seems like anytime I have to deal with dealers, parts, sales, service, they just pi** me off. When I bought this truck it had the infamous cracked alt bracket and I demanded a new one, and they sales guy said no they couldn't do that. And I just blew a cork. #@$%! He finally gave in a gave me 50 dollars off the price to get a new one.