Tune Options

[muzziak]

Hey guys, spoke to unigroup and they offer and recommend something like a diagnostics check before a tune, where they check for air leaks, voltages, ignition timing and stuff like that for $150. What do people think, worth it or no need ?

[Ben C34]

Of course it's worth it.

Tuning with a boost leak present is not good. Dyno time is expensive.

[GTR_JOEY]

Potentially wasting a lot of money if you don't have everything spot on from the start

[Trex]

i find it odd they asked if you wanted it. they should do it for their own piece of mind.

[Ben C34]

i find it odd they asked if you wanted it. they should do it for their own piece of mind.

No tuner cares. You bring car to them and say tune it. They do.

If the crap you brought in to them to get tuned is a problem, it's not their problem. They will sleep easy when you fx your boost leak and kill your engine running lean weeks after the tune. It's not their fault. They tuned the car was fine on the Dyno. Thats it.

If they do all the work they do the proper checks before tuning. I can't think of any tuner that would spend time looking over peoples work if they are just tuning the car.

[GTR_JOEY]

i find it odd they asked if you wanted it. they should do it for their own piece of mind.

It is part of their work, I can only assume that they were informing of what costs what in regards to the tune package

But yes if your car is a sack of crap then of course no tuner can 100% guarantee the car is mechanically going to last forever

[iruvyouskyrine]

No tuner cares. You bring car to them and say tune it. They do.

If the crap you brought in to them to get tuned is a problem, it's not their problem. They will sleep easy when you fx your boost leak and kill your engine running lean weeks after the tune. It's not their fault. They tuned the car was fine on the Dyno. Thats it.

If they do all the work they do the proper checks before tuning. I can't think of any tuner that would spend time looking over peoples work if they are just tuning the car.

Not true. Both Jez in NSW and Trent from chequered tuning in VIC gave my car a comprehensive test before tuning and both were genuinely trying to find faults that would have significant consequences on the dyno. I know this is part of their dyno fee but still I feel that they really wanted to do their best work on the car and make it as good of a tune as possible.

It didn't feel like other tuners where I have been and they just get the customer to drop the car off, roll it straight on the dyno and start tuning without even a quick look under the bonnet for obvious problems. Tune it and then drive it off and the customer takes it away.

Might sound like a plug for trent and jez but I was thoroughly impressed by both and there is still tuners out there who actually genuinely care about their customers and workmanship. Two of the nicest people I have met too.