I urgently need your advice on this issue, I have a perfect working bmw with an abandoned maxima gle with brain box issue, but somebody told me about a week ago that we can run another Camry engine with gear in that maxima and it will be as good as new, currently I don't have the money to buy the engine, I persuaded my wife to let us sell that bmw to fix up the maxima. Though I would have sold that maxima with that condition but the value of which they want to buy it is discouraging, some even said 70k for a car I bought 1.2m that one of the reason I decided to get rid of this working bmw to fix the abandoned car. please advice me, what would you do if you find yourselves in my shoe? Thanks in anticipations

Dont do it.

Very risky move. My advice... Don't do it. Continue using the BMW until u can find the right ecu for the maxima

Am yet to sell the bmw, just that I have added it to some website for sale.

chris4gold: Am yet to sell the bmw, just that I have added it to some website for sale.

Good, just refrain from selling the BMW, continue to use it because fixing a camry engine in a maxima is not just going to 9work. I am not a mechanic but with all I have learnt on cartalk section, I know its not going to work. If you sell the active BMW, its just a matter if days before you come calling on Siena, Ikenna, Car-doctor etc to help you urgently because of a swap that went wrong, dont do it my brother, look for money elsewhere to fix the maxima, cheers!

What ur mechanic suggested to u is a route down a bottomless pit.. U will never see the end of it as money upon money would be requested to fix different complications that would raise from such conversation. In the end you would have been better off if u had raised money to fix the maxima because the fund from the BMW would have been exhausted without meaningful result. Don't listen to the glib tongue of your mechanic oo they can be so convincing before money touches their hand. Just hold back and seek a second opinion from another mechanic even if u have to buy an ECU from abroad it might be worth it.

We will change this thread to how you are going to diagnose the maxims and fix it yourself if you are willing yo start this as a project people are here to help for free.you won't hang to buy anything unless you want to.first you have to list everything that has been fond to the maxima

I advise you run as far as you can from the mechanic. Secondlty as @sultaan said what is really wrong with the car and get help to fix it. If ur mechanic can give you such a shitty advise the ECU might not be the problem just saying.

That mechanic of yours want to make you carless and kind of your life miserable. Because those are going to be the case if you follow his crooked way of reasoning. Please don't allow him. Fix your maxima as it is.

Appreciated! A big thanks to you all.

This plan is a dangerous one,
My colleague made similar disastrous mistake last year...and for the past 5-7 months now he has been climbing "Okada" to office..
He has a sound rovers 626 and a dead golf 4 or 5, he was advised by a mechanic to sell the life rovers to buy a half engine for the golf.. And up till now the golf is either over heating, gasket problems, engine vibration e.tc. Now the buyer of his rovers is busy enjoying the baby without stress.....finaly don't sell life vehicles to repair dead one....tnx.

Same problem here! About selling a benz 4 a bluebird engine nd workz.. Wish Nigeria is developed 2 d point of most young ones still in school, not being dat dependent!