Tunerlock SOB!
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Tunerlock SOB!
Took the Vetternator out to see Patrick today at Quality Motorsports for a Dyno Tune. Car was tune by someone else (won't mention who) to get the Z at least a point where it can run as QM Dyno was down and didn't wanna wait. Previous tuner locked the flipping PCM so Pat couldn't get in! Phone call to the previous asshat got no where as he said he didn't even know how to lock a tune, so it shouldn't be locked. My response: if you don't know that, why are you tuning cars?? Asked him to come by the shop to unlock it. He says someone is borrowing his laptop and don't know when he'll get it back. F-Dat. Now, gotta wait for Patrick's bud from GM come by and flash the PCM and try again two weeks from now (we are both busy and this isn't a daily driver) to drop it off at QM and have Patrick have his way with her. Moral of the story: Like a good barber, stick to your guy.
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The audacity of that creep....he doesn't own the car. My tuner doesn't lock the tune, and I'm going to adjust other things myself (not fuel tables) with my own HPTuner program.
I dislike those guys who think they can lock out the owner of the car.
There's a great analogy to remember...you rent them for their body, not marry them for life. Same thing.
I dislike those guys who think they can lock out the owner of the car.
There's a great analogy to remember...you rent them for their body, not marry them for life. Same thing.
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as long as its not a COS either can read each other. thats what happened with mine. current tune is a cos from hpt and i use efi live which won't read it. it shows locked
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in my opinion a good tuner will not lock the tune... when they do that there is a reason, usually that is because they aren't that good of a tuner to begin with... what if the customer owns hptuners and needs to get into the tune to fix something or make a change?... now they are stuck at the whims of the "tuner" which is a big inconvenience and bs... I know tuners can be secretive and after all the hard work someone could just plug into the car and download the tune in just a few mins and use that info which does suck but that's just part of the game and no reason the customer should suffer for that
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I get that your pissed that the tune is locked I don't know any of your tuners on the left Coast. Let me share some info about tuners that are the best and the worse let's say tuner A is been doing Tunes for 20 yrs. and he is the top dog within 500 miles. Time goes buy and you now have 5 Tuners in that same 500 miles. Now you have A B C D E F Tuners A is the best B used to work for A now he has his own shop called B. So now you have 2 good tuners well C D E & F are new to the area so they send buddies to A&B to tune their cars then bring them back to C D E & F they get the data from the good guys learn their tricks now they take food and money off of A&B's table so I see why some tuners lock people out I don't like it but it happens. Right now the big 3 want to ban Tuners from making changes to cars they say it is their intellectual property. And we don't have the right to modify it on our own cars. Just posting and sharing with you all I have my own HPTuners and it has taken me 2 yrs to get good at it an that's just tuning n/a car not F/I that's has to be insane to learn and apply.
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Last edited by BOUT X; Jul 26, 2015 at 01:57 AM.