I would never trust a chinese clone of a tool to do med17. 

ECU's are too expensive to mess up! Buy a real tool.


MED17 is no joke to tune either, if you dont know me7 and med9 forget it.

"gotta pay to play" 

the tuning shops you speak of are you using genuine tools. no those sloppy chinese knock offs.

Because if you are a n00b it is not a good idea to start with MEDC17. Start with simpler ECU's first.

So let's break it down.

For flashing you need a tool that will write your ECU.
The only one I am slightly familiar with that will do this is ByteShooter. The price with the needed module is 4900 EUR.
Some ECU's can be written with the Galletto 2 clone, but not all of them, and it can brick some of them.
I am sure there are other tools that work better than the Galletto 2 clone and are cheaper than BS that will write MEDC17.

So, let's say you have a tool that will read and write your ECU.
Next you will need to know how the ECU works and locate the required maps for tuning.
Usually leaked information about the functionality (funktionsrahmen) and the damos file are traded for money.
The older things are posted to this site as well.

This is assuming of course such information exists in the wild about your car. If it does not, it's back to basics of finding the maps.

Just out of interest. When you say "tuning" do you mean that you have used a flasher to write someone else's tunes, or have you actually made your own?

I was on the phone with both SCT and Cobb yesterday, and both told me that *most* MED17.5 ECU cars are tunable via the OBD2 port. Ford's 2013 Focus ST for example, can be tuned just by updating the firmware on an SCT XCal3 or 3015.

However, for whatever reason it may be; I will probably never be able to port flash this particular ECU in my 2013 Golf. So, the next questions are:

-Which tools should I buy?
-What software will be capable of reading and writing to my particular MED17.5?
-Is finding, interpreting and editing maps any easier than it used to be? Or is it back to HEX-edit with these ECUs?
-Is there a good walkthrough for an experienced DIY tuner new to the MED17.5 ECU, and new to Nefarious Motorsports?

Did your MagPro2 come with software? And why do you call Magic Motorsport dicks?