Ok Mike I have a question for you.
Are you offering flex fuel for the newer cars?
I have been running into issues where on 93 it is reading e50 or e70. I did fine this week a few tables missing and may potentially fix the issue if I request them but it’s hard to believe some of these bigger shops haven’t already requested them.
I have talked to a few other tuners and they have seen the same issue and stopped offering it.
i see another remote tuner still offering it and wondered how. But I had a shop of his car me a few weeks ago and asked if I could fix it because it was running like crap. After looking at the log that customer was also having the same issue with percent reading wrong and that tuner told them not to worry about it. 😱
So curious if you have ran into the same issue. I have been wanting to get one in person but no one around here has one. I may make a post on the local hemi group and see if I do one for free if they will come to me. But I will say this some cars I have no issue with but I have 2 cars right now where the issue is still happening and they’d like a fix. I would say at this point it is a 50/50 shot if it works for me. I’m hoping it’s the missing tables I found this week. We shall see and I’ll update.
not looking for a fix just your experience.
Jon, when you say "newer cars" what year/model are you referring to? In regards to missing tables it is not uncommon for me to request a table to be added for a particular calibration and HPtuners does not add it for other calibrations for the same (or similar) year vehicles. For the last few years I have been requesting that table additions for similar calibrations be populated to all similar calibrations and not just the one I requested. It is frustrating to start on a tune, know the table that needs to be adjusted and find that it is not there, then open a support request to have it added referring to my previous support request for a similar calibration. I have no idea if this is what you are experiencing so sorry to ramble.
We do offer flex tuning but as most folks know that have approached us for this type of tuning it is not my preference. "Inferred" ethanol content calculations are not something I feel comfortable relying on and never will. For the GM platform the Flex tuning relies on an actual ethanol content, is very accurate and I am very comfortable tuning this configuration.
The newest FCA vehicles I have done a Flex tune on are a 21 Redeye and a 21 Superstock. The Superstock is rearely driven but with our street testing we did not have any issues. With the Redeye we did have issues with the ethanol content calculation so we just switched to a straight E98 tune.
Hopefully this helps some.
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