Hawk696

I am away for business this week and this morning I get a frantic call from my wife that the Police/DMV inspectors are at our home and state that we are in possession of a stolen Vehicle, she proceeds to show them all of our documentation from the purchase of our 2000 Pontiac Firehawk, They narrow it down to the PCM being the stolen item in the vehicle, (as it red flagged the inspection we needed to register it) and ask her to bring the vehicle to a local mechanic shop to put it on a lift so they can investigate weather any other parts of our car are also stolen, although they find nothing else is. We bought this car back in 2013 from a private owner in Mississippi, and found out from the DMV inspectors that the PCM was reported stolen in Louisiana in 2011. So since we have had this car I have put in a rebuilt LS1 with a Texas speed 228r, 114LSA cam, Pacesetter headers, and some other feel good mods, and had the car tuned about a week ago (the LS1 it had in it dropped the #2 Piston). Now only to have to wait on a call from the bank who reported the stolen PCM or their insurance company to see if they want the part back, and if they do I have to buy a new PCM and then I have to get it re-tuned all over again, WOW what a friggin Nightmare this is turning out to be!!!! Has any one else had this happen to them??

myk

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Man that's awful. I hope they don't take the car, or anything. They can have the freaking PCM, and you can go buy one from Frost or something...

SM105K

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Go buy a new PCM and be done with it.

ULTIMATEORANGESS

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at least you got it back in mostly one piece.

Jwooky

You should be able to save the tune out of it.

You dont have to let them take your car without probable cause. Dont trust them. Give them the PCM if they want it and move on.

murphinator

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Call your tner and ensure they have a copy of your tune , I would hope they do... if not find a NC member that can get over there and pull the tune out of the car so you have all the data you will need if they take your pcm

flintwrench69

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How would they have any idea your pcm is stolen? Who reports their pcm being stolen,anyway? Wow!

Jeremie

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If you end up needing a new PCM I've got one I'll let go CHEAP! Car was running perfectly when it came out, but I broke the rear end and decided to part out the entire car.

oChristiano

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Your PCM has the cars VIN in it. When they plugged it in for the state inspection it flagged..

Last time I had heard this happening it was a 01-02 WS6 revinned as a 98 and PCM flagged the car and the guy lost it and bought it back from the insurance auction..

Burken01

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Too bad you didn't have hptuners, could have changed the vin in it to your vehicle before getting it inspected..

Defined1983

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lol for real though

Burken01

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The vin # is stored in the PCM

When they do smog/inspection and plug into the obd2 port the vin # has to match the PCM vin#

So any car reported stolen will follow the trail of that vin#

Defined1983

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i was referring to the second part of what he had said