I suspect that my dealership might have reflashed my tune back to stock.. Here is the story, I noticed recently that when getting on it in 1st or 2nd the car literally bogs down (looses power) very abruptly. I got my car tuned in the fall and everything was running flawless until recently. I had my car in for my first major service and some recalls including the ASC or AWC reflash (not sure which one it was) could that have reset my tune? I was ECUtek tuned so i cannot just restore my tune like you could with the COBB AP.....
Is it also possible that the dealership did not do anything and it could be my tune having issues after 6 months? What do you guys think is happening? And could i have caused problems with my engine because of it? I am now driving very cautiously until i get back in for my june appointment to get tuned again with cobb ap this time. Thanks in advance, i would really appreciate some feedback!!

 

you should be able to tell pretty easy if there is a power difference

its entirely possible the dealership flashed an updated ROM..

just go back to your tuner and ask them to reflash you...

 

I also forgot to note that the car will do 5th gear pulls with full power no problem. Its only in the lower gear 1,2, maybe 3 that it falls on its face and hesitates reallly bad under full acceleration. Yeah i have an appointment with my tuner but not until june. Its a 2 hour drive so im just going to drive it easy for now. hoping im not causing problems.

 

Can you just reflash your original map back on? I know when I took my car in for the ASC flash, I just took my laptop along, in case they decided to touch my ECU; they didn't, but it would have taken all of 30 seconds to reflash it, and the AP is even easier.

If you DON'T have your original map, surely your tuner could email it to you.

Also, I would not go around doing WOT pulls until you know what's up; you're heavily modded, and the stock map might not like that.

Do you have a wideband? Well, of course you do, since everyone does; what's it showing?

 

If my tuner emailed me the map i could not do anything since i was ecutek tuned and do not have the software or way to even connect my computer to the car until the cobb ap I ordered gets here for my june tune. I havent been going around doing wot pulls, what i described has only happened a couple times and since then i have been driving like a granny. I guess i wont know what is going on until june when i see my tuner.
If you had to take a guess at what else it could be other then the tune, what do you think? I mean who knows, the dealer may not have even touched the tune. Then im almost a little bit more worried at whats going on since i have not modded or touched anything since my last tune 6 months ago.

 

bump

 

I personally would never go to the dealership w/ a tune installed. I know of a guy who had his ap married and when they did some updates to the car, it messed up his awc~

 

I had the SAWC recall done. They said they never touched the ECU and never asked me beforehand . I had my tuner check for my last tune and it was an unknown ROM ID. So essentially I wasted money on my tune last year. Dealership FTL.

 

ummmm......apart from the totally obviously bits...


if your tuner can't reflash your old tune over the top then find a decent tuner!

 

i believe the first recall done will reflash your ECU.

 

alright thanks guys. They had to of messed with my rom. I will be taking it easy until june when i get retuned with new parts. Damn dealership... At least this way in the future I can just use the AP to change back to stock before i go in and then reflash when im done.

 

Anybody know a way to easily convert ECUTek to ECUFlash?

If you can get Cam (I'm assuming) to send you an ECUFlash file, you're more than welcome to swing by me and get it flashed back to your tune. It will at least tide you over until June.

 

^ im going to give cam a call. If so ill shoot you off a pm. That would be awesome

 

No go. The convert takes alot alot alot of time. Im just going to make a special trip down and get reflashed until june. Hoping this will solve my problem. Thanks for all the help guys!