Dealer screwed up my tune
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Dealer screwed up my tune
I brought the truck into the dealer today to have the crank relearn done after swapping engines and computers. Well I make it a point, dance up and down and beg to please not re flash the computer or I will lose my custom tune from wait4me performance for all of the modifications that I also explained to them. Well after paying 130.00 which I thought was rediculus and head down the road, truck is idleing all crappy and when I go WOT it just hangs up and sputters . Well I turn her back around and head back to the dealer and come to find out, the tech put a stock 6.0 tune on it After arguing and explaining to them what a huge mistake they made, the service manager comes over and tells me that if I get it retuned they will do the crank relearn for free so I tell him I need a refund so I can pay for my re tune and get my money back. So now I really have to 2 foot it for the next week and then I am taking it to Joe at Vinci HP. I have a hand held tuner from Joe allready so he told me that for 250.00 he can give me a dyno tune and then program that tune into the hand held incase I ever lose my tune again which I thought was really cool. Do you all think it will hurt the motor to drive around with the bigger cam and 42lb injectors on a stock tune for a week? It only gives me hell if I try to mash the accellerator down .
cliff notes:
dealer programs over my custom tune while doing crank relearn
dealer refunds money
I drive a crappy running truck for a week until I take it to Vinci
Is it ok to drive like this for a week?
cliff notes:
dealer programs over my custom tune while doing crank relearn
dealer refunds money
I drive a crappy running truck for a week until I take it to Vinci
Is it ok to drive like this for a week?
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That sucks man. I make it clear with the service manager before I leave. The have yet messed it up.
That cheap tune is turning into an expensive one huh?
I wouldn't drive it if it is running bad. It "could" mess a lot more than you can afford to have fixed.
also, now that the dealership knows you are changing stuff, you might have a hard time having warranty stuff fixed on it if something fails before you get the tune right. I would have just let them reflash the PCM back to stock.
Would have saved you a lot of headaches and worries.
Jim
That cheap tune is turning into an expensive one huh?
I wouldn't drive it if it is running bad. It "could" mess a lot more than you can afford to have fixed.
also, now that the dealership knows you are changing stuff, you might have a hard time having warranty stuff fixed on it if something fails before you get the tune right. I would have just let them reflash the PCM back to stock.
Would have saved you a lot of headaches and worries.
Jim
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Originally Posted by CHEVY6000VHO
That sucks man. I make it clear with the service manager before I leave. The have yet messed it up.
That cheap tune is turning into an expensive one huh?
I wouldn't drive it if it is running bad. It "could" mess a lot more than you can afford to have fixed.
also, now that the dealership knows you are changing stuff, you might have a hard time having warranty stuff fixed on it if something fails before you get the tune right. I would have just let them reflash the PCM back to stock.
Would have saved you a lot of headaches and worries.
Jim
That cheap tune is turning into an expensive one huh?
I wouldn't drive it if it is running bad. It "could" mess a lot more than you can afford to have fixed.
also, now that the dealership knows you are changing stuff, you might have a hard time having warranty stuff fixed on it if something fails before you get the tune right. I would have just let them reflash the PCM back to stock.
Would have saved you a lot of headaches and worries.
Jim
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Originally Posted by rgvsierra
whats a crank relearn?
didnt need that when i got my lq4 in the truck..
didnt need that when i got my lq4 in the truck..
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hmmm. $130.00 is rediculus. you should go to a different dealer. It takes them about 2 minutes to do, if that.
I got mine done for free, and I told the service manager( i am aquainted with him, he golfs at the course I used to work at) that it was custom tuned so make sure the tech doesnt reflash it, just run the relearn procedure. took them all of 5 minutes to pull my truck in the shop and them pull it back to the parking stall.
I got mine done for free, and I told the service manager( i am aquainted with him, he golfs at the course I used to work at) that it was custom tuned so make sure the tech doesnt reflash it, just run the relearn procedure. took them all of 5 minutes to pull my truck in the shop and them pull it back to the parking stall.
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this must be when using a different ecu, cause i havent seen this at all needing done. on here is the first time ive heard of this. everytime checked with the Tech II and no issues