Frist Check Engine light with the AA ecu
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It will blow the CEL again. You need to get the tune fixed. The STAR system only clears past faults, it doesn't change anything. What year car? Are you sure they have the secondary injector flash figured out? Some tuners are still using pre-MY '04 tunes and that will not work to the full hilt. There is simply no way in heck they would ever be able to keep up with all the OTHER changes as well.
Before you get pissd, GET THAT FILE and make sure you can go back to stock if you want to. If you lose that file, MB can't help.
Before you get pissd, GET THAT FILE and make sure you can go back to stock if you want to. If you lose that file, MB can't help.
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I would get your money back and try Renntech in your area.
ECU are needed but a pain in my opinion.
My car is at the dealer for another 2nd air pump relay failure. They will probably flash my car once more. Good thing I did not pull the trigger on the ECU Tune since I would had to return my ECU to a tuner or travel to my nearest Tuner.
Time and $$
I'm seriously considering taking off my ASP and running stock with just my HE, filters.
There is no secret that Code3 is working a smaller clutch pulley for our E55 which will create less boost that ASP and in par with other pullies in the market.
I rather have a small increase in HP and TQ across the rev band.. then having too much torque down low and loosing HP on top.
I have though of keeping my ASP with a smaller clutch pulley..(upper and lower pullies) but I will only imagine my need for Tuning will be multiplied and car will be running RICH all day long.
ECU are needed but a pain in my opinion.
My car is at the dealer for another 2nd air pump relay failure. They will probably flash my car once more. Good thing I did not pull the trigger on the ECU Tune since I would had to return my ECU to a tuner or travel to my nearest Tuner.
Time and $$
I'm seriously considering taking off my ASP and running stock with just my HE, filters.
There is no secret that Code3 is working a smaller clutch pulley for our E55 which will create less boost that ASP and in par with other pullies in the market.
I rather have a small increase in HP and TQ across the rev band.. then having too much torque down low and loosing HP on top.
I have though of keeping my ASP with a smaller clutch pulley..(upper and lower pullies) but I will only imagine my need for Tuning will be multiplied and car will be running RICH all day long.
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I would get your money back and try Renntech in your area.
ECU are needed but a pain in my opinion.
My car is at the dealer for another 2nd air pump relay failure. They will probably flash my car once more. Good thing I did not pull the trigger on the ECU Tune since I would had to return my ECU to a tuner or travel to my nearest Tuner.
Time and $$
I'm seriously considering taking off my ASP and running stock with just my HE, filters.
There is no secret that Code3 is working a smaller clutch pulley for our E55 which will create less boost that ASP and in par with other pullies in the market.
I rather have a small increase in HP and TQ across the rev band.. then having too much torque down low and loosing HP on top.
I have though of keeping my ASP with a smaller clutch pulley..(upper and lower pullies) but I will only imagine my need for Tuning will be multiplied and car will be running RICH all day long.
ECU are needed but a pain in my opinion.
My car is at the dealer for another 2nd air pump relay failure. They will probably flash my car once more. Good thing I did not pull the trigger on the ECU Tune since I would had to return my ECU to a tuner or travel to my nearest Tuner.
Time and $$
I'm seriously considering taking off my ASP and running stock with just my HE, filters.
There is no secret that Code3 is working a smaller clutch pulley for our E55 which will create less boost that ASP and in par with other pullies in the market.
I rather have a small increase in HP and TQ across the rev band.. then having too much torque down low and loosing HP on top.
I have though of keeping my ASP with a smaller clutch pulley..(upper and lower pullies) but I will only imagine my need for Tuning will be multiplied and car will be running RICH all day long.
I would take the ASP off, if you have no tune. At the minimum, you need the TQ limiter cut off, just so you don't dump fuel at 2+ psi in boost over stock. Even the "standard" oversized pulleys hit the wall at the top end. The VRP one NEEDS the tune.
Now, I am a bit confused on the clutch pulley and how that will lower psi. I assume you mean they will tune the setup to mimic the standard oversized pulley conditions? Anyhow, I'd be very careful with messing with the SC clutch or the pulley on it. That just has not been tested much and you may or may not want to go there with your own car. I've got little room to talk, since I let VRP/Powerchip have their way with my car and anything can happen.
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AA is a solid company, I say give them a chance to work it out. It's probably impossible to work out all of the issues with an ECU tune ahead of time without testing it on cars of varying build dates under real world driving conditions. Besides, competition is a good thing ...
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It will blow the CEL again. You need to get the tune fixed. The STAR system only clears past faults, it doesn't change anything. What year car? Are you sure they have the secondary injector flash figured out? Some tuners are still using pre-MY '04 tunes and that will not work to the full hilt. There is simply no way in heck they would ever be able to keep up with all the OTHER changes as well.
Before you get pissd, GET THAT FILE and make sure you can go back to stock if you want to. If you lose that file, MB can't help.
Before you get pissd, GET THAT FILE and make sure you can go back to stock if you want to. If you lose that file, MB can't help.
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I would try to talk to a tech about the code you erased and find out how to fix it.
I'm thinking you don't have any warranty left... therefore avoid the dealer as much as possible.
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No warrenty for me. Luckly I have a friend that owns a mercedes shop and has STAR.
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If you have access to your OEM file, GET IT. Also, check with your dealer to see if your vin is "owed" a flash. if it is, then you are fine and can go in and start on a clean slate. If not, your original file is the ONLY way back.
Final option is to come copy my file!!!!
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Then I think that is why you are going through the exact same pains that many Kleeman clients may have had (back when the flash hit).
If you have access to your OEM file, GET IT. Also, check with your dealer to see if your vin is "owed" a flash. if it is, then you are fine and can go in and start on a clean slate. If not, your original file is the ONLY way back.
Final option is to come copy my file!!!!
If you have access to your OEM file, GET IT. Also, check with your dealer to see if your vin is "owed" a flash. if it is, then you are fine and can go in and start on a clean slate. If not, your original file is the ONLY way back.
Final option is to come copy my file!!!!
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They should have downloaded your file and saved it, for just this kind of issue. For the most part, you can use a flash from one car to another, but you have to remember that they are taking a picture in time. My preference is always to take MY file and modify it, since the car runs on it as is. At any rate, they should have saved your original file, so make sure you ask. It doesn't need to be the one they tweaked, but it will get you back to stock.
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I'm not bashing, but want to explore this a bit more.
rflow: What year is your car?
Is it safe to assume you DID NOT have the dreaded air pump recall?
I am now curius to see which tune is more aggressive; the one that uses an older MB ECU flash (pre-air pump) or one that uses a "new" one. This may have something to do with all of the differences many of us feel in our cars and why I am getting raped for enjoying mine.
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Originally Posted by OmarM
We were able to verify that the car had the latest flash (Thanks Rflow) and made the proper adjustments to get around that.
To me that just seems like a bit of a short-cut that may be asking for problems ...
Also the statement from Omar seems less than forthcoming if all they did to make the 'proper adjustments' for a recall flashed ECU was to use an older non-reflashed ECU from another car and load it on to yours.
