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mextdi

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SOLD TO RICK! pulsivedub

Up for sale is a Flashzilla V3 Tune Loader, recently connected and updated on computer. Does not have any tunes on it right now and is fully UNLOCKED.

Asking $150 plus $5 shipping in the continental USA.

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Local pick up in Saint Paul Minnesota available.
 
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Nuje

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Those tuning boxes can only be mated to one vehicle at a time.
The process is you read the OEM tune from the vehicle, email / upload it to the tuner, they send you back the tunes you requested. You copy that tune on to the tuning box, plug it into the car and then write your (new) tune to the car's ECU.

All through that, the tuning box "knows" that it has the OEM tune and won't allow any other OE "reads". Only once you write the OEM tune back to the ECU will the tuning box be able to be reset so that you can re-use it with a different vehicle.

I don't know if this is a limitation imposed by Alientech (maker of the tuning box) or Malone (or whoever the tuner is), but either way, it's a PITA given that the tuning boxes ain't cheap.
 

mextdi

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It is one tuner per car, that's just how the manufacturer does it. Works great and is easy to use.
 

Nuje

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From what I understand, that only applies to non-encrypted tunes; the big-name vendor/tuners who use Alientech's loaders encrypt their tunes (which I think is a desired feature - for the tuning company - of those loaders).
 

mextdi

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The advantage to the Flashzilla is that Malone Tuning offers support and such. If you use the MPPS you're on your own. It's the ease of use factor.
 
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