Recycling, reusing and refurbishing your ECM: economic and ecological

Why go for new?

A new ECM can cost you a lot of money. This is an investment of course that you have no choice but to make, seeing as having one is the law. But nowhere in the law it specifies that the ECM you're using has to be brand new. So you can save yourself a bundle if you can find a second hand one. Going to a specialist in ECM rebuilding is worth your while.

The trouble with second hand is, you never know whether the person selling it to you is levelling with you about the condition of the ECM or if he's just trying to palm off an ill functioning thing to you in hopes you won't notice till he's out of town. This is a bit of a risky deal then, because the law does require you to have a working ECM, even if it doesn't need to be a new one. This is where remanufacturing comes in.

What DSO Industrial does is buy up all kinds of old, second hand ECM's and refurbish them. This is a thorough process in which all the elements of the ECM are checked and if necessary replaced or repaired. The result: an ECM that may look a bit worn but internally, everything is sparkly and copacetic!

Knowledge and skill

The folks at DSO Industrial know what they are doing as this is their trade and craft. This means that aside from getting an ECM that is cheaper than a new one, you're also getting great advise on things that are very important to you.

Not every ECM works well with every truck, for instance. This is something that new manufacturers don't advise you one, they only sell their one type of product and they either don't know about troubles using their device in certain trucks or they don't care. The trouble usually starts to happen after a while, sometimes leading to breakdown of the unit right after the warrantee has come to an end, leaving you with an expensive piece of equipment that no longer works.

This too is where refurbishing can come in handy. The folks at DSO Industrial do repair work as well, but also they can advise you on which ECM's are known for causing trouble with your vehicle and which last longer, work better etc. That way, instead of just repairing the trouble when it occurs, they help prevent trouble in the future. That's the kind of service that you usually have to pay extra for. Here you'll find you're paying less because it's used and remanufactured goods that you're going for.

Helps the environment

Anything that re-uses old parts, like in this case ECM's, is good for the environment. Any piece of electronic equipment is riddled with hard to recycle plastics and difficult to break down into component parts and re-use when taken out of context. By taking old ECM's and refurbishing them to become new ECM's, or remanufactured ECM's if you want to be picky about it, DSO Industrial is preventing them from landing in the garbage pile and with that they are helping the environment by preventing waste.

On the other side of the production process, new materials are saved that won't need to be used because of the re-use of the original products in the new refurbished units. This is up-cycling at it's best. Prevention of waste and re-use of old materials, definately an environmentally sound choice to make.