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      05-21-2010, 12:16 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by PencilGeek View Post
If your car went back to the dealer -- especially very recently -- there is a very high probability that they reflashed it to stock. I'm not sure all dealers are doing it -- but I've been told that they're supposed to reflash all cars that come through. For every car that comes into the dealer -- they are installing new ECU software that prevents ECU tuning. So if your car went back to the dealer any time during the last 3-4 weeks, there's a very good chance it got flashed back to stock.
So dealers are not really flashing the ECU with original software but with new software designed to prevent tunes? Is this right?


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