Gimpster
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I think I've made it pretty apparent in many posts that I enjoy self-tuning my vehicles. I'm going to assume perhaps some of you do or might enjoy it too. So maybe we can keep a running thread until we have this ability.
For those who don't cruise the HP Tuners forum, they added a boot loader to the recent betas to read-out E78 PCM's (what the 1.4T uses). The E83 guys (1.8N/A) are out of luck for now it seems. That sucks, but I honestly doubt they would've sold many E83 credits anyway.
It looks like the Cruze guys have been sending in reads, but they haven't received any Sonic to my knowledge yet.
I, like a jackass, sold my HP Tuners last year thinking I wouldn't ever need it again. I'm having a serious internal debate on buying it again, because obviously theres no guarantee even with the reads they'll add E78 support. Not sure about you guys, but $500 is a lot of money to me, especially if its a door stop. I'm especially hesitant given all of the rainbows and unicorns they've been chasing on the Dodge support.
EFI Live also has support to read out the E78, and tune 2011 E78 Cruze at the minimum. They also haven't received a Sonic calibration to look at, and their product is an even higher initial investment.
I've tried to find local-to-me folks who'll pull the reads, but I've had no luck so far. The one place I found who owns it wants me to pay to do a simple read, and that isn't going to happen.
So anyway, that's the state of the union as of today.
For those who don't cruise the HP Tuners forum, they added a boot loader to the recent betas to read-out E78 PCM's (what the 1.4T uses). The E83 guys (1.8N/A) are out of luck for now it seems. That sucks, but I honestly doubt they would've sold many E83 credits anyway.
It looks like the Cruze guys have been sending in reads, but they haven't received any Sonic to my knowledge yet.
I, like a jackass, sold my HP Tuners last year thinking I wouldn't ever need it again. I'm having a serious internal debate on buying it again, because obviously theres no guarantee even with the reads they'll add E78 support. Not sure about you guys, but $500 is a lot of money to me, especially if its a door stop. I'm especially hesitant given all of the rainbows and unicorns they've been chasing on the Dodge support.
EFI Live also has support to read out the E78, and tune 2011 E78 Cruze at the minimum. They also haven't received a Sonic calibration to look at, and their product is an even higher initial investment.
I've tried to find local-to-me folks who'll pull the reads, but I've had no luck so far. The one place I found who owns it wants me to pay to do a simple read, and that isn't going to happen.
So anyway, that's the state of the union as of today.