Or bought after any big storm over the past few years..
Anyhow, there ARE a couple service out there, but I don;t know anyone who has used them. I seem to recall they weren't all that reliable. I think a magazine did an analysis on them when they first hit the market and the results were mixed.
As for the ECMS, the ones on the Fords are known to crap out from time to time. Used ones hit ebay quite often as people retire the engines and they move quick. That means people are buying them. And while dcg9381 is right they are designed to have very low failure rates (I worked on the software development for the GM/delco auto computers for most of the 90's), I think the marine ones are exposed to more beatings both in terms of the wet environment and shock.
But if they were prone to failure they'd never make it in this market, so I agree they usually hold up fine. But they do fail. On a 13 year old boat, doesn't surprise me.
