I've been a customer of BMS for many moons for BMWs/VWs so I decided to pick up a pedal tuner from them for my 1-month old '18 Raptor. I couldn't believe the competition was selling these at $300 given I bought a similar unit for $200 for my wife's VW GTI a few years ago.
The BMS pedal tuner is a relatively new product it appears, but I've purchased many piggybacks from them and Terry's electronics/programming knowledge is solid. The tuner at $179 is close to 1/3rd lower in cost than the competition for an identical product. It's still expensive IMHO given the simplicity of the electronics, but far cheaper than the time it would take me to DIY the project.
I decided to buy a Raptor because it offers EPIC rear seat space for the foster kids that come and go through our house. Foster care is intense and swapping cars has been a therapeutic distraction. The size of our family is never constant for more than a month. I wanted something that was AWESOME and could still hold 3 car seats in the back without a debacle. I never even considered a truck until my brothers suggested I try some out. After I tested all the brands, I was considering a Platinum or Limited F-150, but I like the extra power and I didn't want to wait for a '19 limited with the high output engine. Not that I really use it...but it comes in handy every now and then.
No, the Raptor isn't dangerously quick like the other amazing cars that I've owned, but we can now drive nearly anywhere in the world with this thing and that's quite special. There's something very cool about driving your truck up to an 11,000 ft peak on a snow covered dirt road.
So...why a pedal tuner?
I'm not yet willing to pull the trigger on a real tune. I like the throttle response of Sport, but the shifting is unnecessarily rough and unrefined. I owned the 10-spd ZL1 and it was unbelievable. Lightening fast shifts, blips, smooooth. Why did they program this to be a slushbox in normal and a jerky rough-shifting mess in Sport? Don't get me started on 4th-to-5th in Sport. Maybe it's a truck thing? Either way, I know there's some solutions offered in a full re-write tune, but I figured I'd live with the slushbox in normal for now and obtain the throttle response with a cheap pedal tuner that doesn't void the warranty.
The BMS pedal tuner is a relatively new product it appears, but I've purchased many piggybacks from them and Terry's electronics/programming knowledge is solid. The tuner at $179 is close to 1/3rd lower in cost than the competition for an identical product. It's still expensive IMHO given the simplicity of the electronics, but far cheaper than the time it would take me to DIY the project.
I decided to buy a Raptor because it offers EPIC rear seat space for the foster kids that come and go through our house. Foster care is intense and swapping cars has been a therapeutic distraction. The size of our family is never constant for more than a month. I wanted something that was AWESOME and could still hold 3 car seats in the back without a debacle. I never even considered a truck until my brothers suggested I try some out. After I tested all the brands, I was considering a Platinum or Limited F-150, but I like the extra power and I didn't want to wait for a '19 limited with the high output engine. Not that I really use it...but it comes in handy every now and then.
No, the Raptor isn't dangerously quick like the other amazing cars that I've owned, but we can now drive nearly anywhere in the world with this thing and that's quite special. There's something very cool about driving your truck up to an 11,000 ft peak on a snow covered dirt road.
So...why a pedal tuner?
I'm not yet willing to pull the trigger on a real tune. I like the throttle response of Sport, but the shifting is unnecessarily rough and unrefined. I owned the 10-spd ZL1 and it was unbelievable. Lightening fast shifts, blips, smooooth. Why did they program this to be a slushbox in normal and a jerky rough-shifting mess in Sport? Don't get me started on 4th-to-5th in Sport. Maybe it's a truck thing? Either way, I know there's some solutions offered in a full re-write tune, but I figured I'd live with the slushbox in normal for now and obtain the throttle response with a cheap pedal tuner that doesn't void the warranty.
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