Need Help with Steeda CAI and Predator

Yet another thread of how Diablosport's product and customer service sucks. Its helping me make my decision. Its unfortunate that your having these issues, but it does help those of us that havnt bought yet in making a choice.

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bvega said:

05 BLK-BLK --I am sorry about the rant, I just have seen people jump to hasty conclusions about companies including diablosport.

For instance there was one mustang owner that had a programming issue with the predator that added the Steeda delete plates and c&l CAI and kept getting the CEL light. He wrote a post about how crappy the predator was and then switched to SCT. Well he spent several hours on the dyno with SCT and still got the CEL light. In the end he just yanked out the steeda plates that were causing the light.

He then wrote a post apologizing to diablosport as it really wasnt there fault. There was just something about his car that wouldnt make the steeda plates work.

I understand the need for users to advise the rest of the stangnet community to beware of certain companies and parts and give feedback for others to use and I love that. But some of these "opinions/facts" are sometimes inflamatory and prejudge a situation. People need to be more patient with the aftermarket IMO.

I also feel that the aftermarket needs to ignore the anxious S197 consumer market and just take its time to come out with a better part.

Also sometimes a part may not work for other reasons such as the combination of parts like the above example. The steeda plates work great and the C&L intake works great but when they were put together he could not get the car to be tuned right. Another issue could also have to do with end user installation mistakes. Having something not work right may not factually be a flaw or defect in the part and that companies products and engineering. I just feel that we sometimes over simplify a problem and arent patient enough to consider all of the possibilities and solutions.

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