Greenman wrote:Maybe also consider the distance between you and your tuner if re work is required.
That's a great point John. I've always considered what happens to those people who were tuned by a visiting tuner from interstate. Where do you turn for support and service when you need it? Does the tuner give you a contact for someone local?
For example my car was originally tuned by "Tuners name with-held"...I hit boost cut one morning about a week after it was done...back to the tuner. All in all it went back 2 or 3 times for rework...till I found a better tuner.
Yikes! That must have been a terrible experience for you. It reminds me of my own experience with Autotech in Granville (tuner's name not withheld for shaming purposes). I thought I had done my research as this was a well known tuner who did a lot of WRX's, EVO's, etc. I asked them directly whether they've done Libertys. No problem they said. We've done tons.
Sure enough the tune yielded very disappointing numbers. The kw was practically stock level! However the tuner was very proud and thought he did a great job just getting me there. On the road it felt crap, and triggered the CEL several times. I called to complain but he said that's the best he could do and that was tough.
Luckily for me, Phat was doing some work on my car and found a loose air hose, which he plugged back in. That made things run a lot better. However if the tuner had any experience with a Gen IV Liberty, he would have gotten suspicious of the low kw results, and would have investigated on why it wasn't producing.
