Yes, everyone is working off Bosch code. People crying about people stealing their tune need to just stop. When I tune someones car and they pay me for it, that file is now theirs, they can do whatever with it. If they want to take that file that is tuned extremely tight to their car and spread it to others, I dont care because it wont be perfect on the others and they will end up paying me for one anyway.
That is why I dont lock my files, encrypt them, location swap them, or ever bother to disabling reading over obd which is enough to stop 95% of people.
I look down on tuners that think they are special and need to protect their precious IP, it actually makes me view them as less capable, like they are so worried the one piece of okay work they did wont continue to print them money or something. If you are a good tuner, people will seek you out and want to pay you for your skills. Relying on secrets to stay relevant is not an indication of knowledge or skill.
WHAT HE SAID x10!!!!! (lol, 'ya think that's loud enough?
I can't understand why tuning companies absolutely refuse to provide ANY information to a consumer about what kind of re-calibrations they've done.
Of course the argument from them is "well it's proprietary and we have to protect our investment". That argument doesn't wash in my opinion. Letting me know what areas have been re-calibrated does not put your investment at risk. It's not as though I could take that information and copy a tune.
I ran into this issue with JHM when I looked into buying a 3.0 tune from them. I told them that I've heard good things about their tune, but for the $700 it would have cost me after shipping and exchange rates, I needed some assurance that it would have been an improvement on my existing Unitronic tune.
So here I am, on the phone with them saying "hey guys, I want to give you money, all you need to do is give me SOME idea of what you've actually done and why this tune will be worth the $700". The only answer I could get was "well just take our word for it, you'll love it". Needless to say, I don't have a JHM tune......
My concern about the lack of any information whatsoever is that it creates a real risk to the consumer that they could be overpaying for minimal amounts of effort. 99.9% of people who buy a tune never know what's really been done to the calibrations. I often wonder how extensive the re-calibrations really are on some of these files. If everyone suddenly knew exactly what has been done for the $400-600 they shelled out, would they be happy with the money they spent....?
