Jeffersonville, OH | ILFarm217 - 4/19/2024 13:01
This has nothing to do with the question you asked but I’ve had a bad experience with tuning so I’ll say it. I had a tractor tuned and deleted last year. I had a def code pop up and it was more expensive to fix it through the dealer than delete it so I went with the cheaper and more attractive option. The guy came and said a tune comes along with it and said they wouldn’t tune it over the max factory hp. I said ok and he went about his work. He also told me there wasn’t a “tattle tale” if a dealer hooked up to it. Long story short, the tractor then started throwing codes all the time. The codes would de-rate the tractor so it was basically useless. During all of this I had the dealer hook it up to his computer and it did show the engine had been tuned, so that part wasn’t even true. I ended up having the dealer set it back to stock and fixing the def issue I originally had.
Point of the story is that one action that may seem fine may cost you in another place. I have ran successful tunes and boxes as well.
Seen that as well...
What I will say, is if a guy tries to get a truck tuner to work on a tractor, there are a lot of differences they may not be familiar with. Especially on the earlier stuff, an ISX in a truck, and a QSX in a truck are not the same tuning, but a lot of mechanical parts may be the same.
Had a customer trying to tune a Versatile, and was having trouble with torque derates and other problems, so we took it back to stock for him. I'm not a dealer who gets his pants bunched about tuning, as long as it's out of warranty. Tunes, chips, or programmers rarely CAUSE issues, but maybe they can aggravate them
Chris |
Versatile 435 hp tune
