Question about reliability on tunes

[midmaik]

I would like to take my 2012 Raptor back to Germany at the end of this year.

I'm thinking now long time to get a tune with cold air intake. i just ordere the magnaflow catback system.

Can some of yo guys tell me something about the reliabilty of the diverse tunings, for example 5star or superchips ?

I just had a call with a german car shop will import my car to germany and he said that he had some bad experience with superchips tuning, on some dodge the ECU starts burning for example.

Is it really worth the money in comparing it to power gain and the risk to get medium-term problems wit the ECU ?

My idea was also to convert the car to natural gas, so I can switch everytime from normal gas to natural gas with a mechanical switch.
And natural gas has a Octane number of 105.

What what are you thinking ?


Ahh forgot something, my car shop also noticed that with some superchips tuning it wasn't possible to read failure messages out of the ECu anymore.

 

[NickPic83]

talk to mike at 5 star tuning. he makes some great tunes. they are worth every penny. i have had 9 tunes and 2 different programmers from him and everything works flawless. i am doing a full exhaust soon and will be getting more tunes from him

 

[Big Blue]

Good choice on exhaust. I also have the magnaflow, great system.

As far as tunes, you cant go wrong with Mike @ 5 Star.

I have had his tune in my truck for 2 years now and it has been flawless since day 1!!

He can make any specific modifications for you, like the octane. I had him adjust my shift points to my liking and its perfect.

 

[Raptor911]

I also just got a tune from Mike and I am very happy with the performance.

 

[midmaik]

Thank you very much for your answers.

I know that I can't expect an answer like, yes buy it and you can be sure you will never have a problem.

My only concern is when I'm back in Germany, when something happens or I need sone new parts due to causing problem because of the tune I don't have the infrastructure like here in the US.

We don't have pickup trucks in germany, ford sales only boring small junk cars in europe, no mechanic has experience with trucks, specially with their engines and ECU's.

I wrote this thread only to get a better feeling how robust and proofed the 5star tune is. My concern comes only from some german guys who had an american truck got a supership tune and some ECU burned up. So then you have the problem, you're in germany, no spare parts, no longer possible to read out failure codes, import for a lot of money spare parts from US and so on.


I know, may be I'm a little bit to concerned, sorry for that, we the germans are world-famous for that attitude

I just try to low down my risk

 

[Raptor911]

You keep talking about chips. Please note there are no chips with the 5-star tune. You basically install a new program (tune) to your ecu and that's it. So there's no hardware. It is only a software update. Should you have issues, you just reinstall the Ford stock tune and you are back to normal, the way it came from ford.

BTW .. chips are old school.

Thank you very much for your answers.

I know that I can't expect an answer like, yes buy it and you can be sure you will never have a problem.

My only concern is when I'm back in Germany, when something happens or I need sone new parts due to causing problem because of the tune I don't have the infrastructure like here in the US.

We don't have pickup trucks in germany, ford sales only boring small junk cars in europe, no mechanic has experience with trucks, specially with their engines and ECU's.

I wrote this thread only to get a better feeling how robust and proofed the 5star tune is. My concern comes only from some german guys who had an american truck got a supership tune and some ECU burned up. So then you have the problem, you're in germany, no spare parts, no longer possible to read out failure codes, import for a lot of money spare parts from US and so on.


I know, may be I'm a little bit to concerned, sorry for that, we the germans are world-famous for that attitude

I just try to low down my risk

 

[midmaik]

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I mean with superchips the name of the company

https://www.superchips.com/Store/ta...ProductId/91/product/Ford_Cortex/Default.aspx

This are also programmers.