I glossed over this for some reason as well. You're using an OTS tune...?
And - unless you're trying to beat some horsepower record (you're not), HP doesn't matter at all. Your tracktimes do. Weather it's 1/4 mile or preferred road/autox/timeattack lap time. Chasing HP is silly.
Welllll.. a couple of things.
1) Yes.
2) RKTunes ships your ECU to Femto
3) I was referring to actually tune -not one-off OTS bullshit tunes that no one wants.
I was more referring to the entire package of the ability to tune your car. Which is possible, risky, and expensive - but can be done.
Those things are $29 bucks to replace. Don't bother tryna fix it.
Also - they're going to get dinged up as low to the ground as they are. If it's not too bad, I'd just deal with it.
Most people aren't willing to ship their ECU's to Russia. I know of about 3 people that have gone through the very expensive process and it does work. ($3,300 + your tune). Figure $5k or so.
If you don't know if you need one or not, you don't need one. Meth and Nitrous are the most 'over the counter' reasons, as the factor chargepipe can hold 30psi relatively easily. They do become brittle over time (years) and can break.
If you're not spraying anything, and you're not running a...
It's a bug. Updating firmware is -hard- and always error prone. I doubt it's anything specific that the dealers are doing, but more something in the process. Writing to EPROM is tricky. Everytime I have to update firmware on -anything- I own, computer, TV, stereo, vacuum, -whatever- I always say...
Anyone high enough up the food chain to be in these talks wouldn't be talking about it, is my read. Especially to someone who runs a youtube channel on the subject.
That said, talks like this happen all the time. Apple has talked to every car manufacturer in the industry, doesn't mean that...