I have a sct xcal2 hand held calibrator. It was used to dyno tune a 2004 lightning, it has 3 tunes on it. The problem is that when we sold the lightning we never put the stock tune back on the lightning from the xcal2. Now i have a 2000 gt i want to dyno tune with a xcal2. Is there any way that we can use the xcal2 with the lightning tunes on this gt, or is it programmed to only work on that lightning computer?
sct xcal2 question?
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Don 95Vert
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You probably are out of luck. SCT generally does not clear the VIN lock on XCal 2's unless vehicles are totaled and you provide proof. This is to prevent their use on more than one vehicle at a time. And even if they did that for you, assuming it's not a 9415 Xcal 2 with the canned tunes, you'd need a dealer to reprogram it for your current vehicle. The Lightning tunes would not work at all.
the98stang
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I'll agree with the majority that you're probably SOL. The programmer was set up to work with your previous Lightning and unless you restored the stock tune with that particular device before you sold it (which you didn't) they're not going to do anything for you.
Doing so would essentially be taking money out of their pocket by allowing you to have two vehicles tuned by the same tuner…..and that’ just bad business from their point of view.
What you should be doing as the matter of fact, is tracking down the person you sold the Lightning to and give them the unit free of charge, since they in fact did buy the SCT tune with the truck. It’s no good to you and screws them if they ever want to alter it’s current state of tune in the future.
Doing so would essentially be taking money out of their pocket by allowing you to have two vehicles tuned by the same tuner…..and that’ just bad business from their point of view.
What you should be doing as the matter of fact, is tracking down the person you sold the Lightning to and give them the unit free of charge, since they in fact did buy the SCT tune with the truck. It’s no good to you and screws them if they ever want to alter it’s current state of tune in the future.
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jstreet0204
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Gearbanger 101 said:
They should be able to still alter he tune with no problem. I think he shoud offer to sell the guy the tuner for about half price, and use the money toward a new one.
That's slimey though. The guy bought the truck with the SCT tune in place. Everyone knows the the tuner is VIN locked to the vehicle it originally tuned, unless the tune is pulled before hand. As far as I'm concerned, the tuner should be included in the deal. If a guy offered to re-sell me a tuner that should have gone to me in the first place when I bought the truck, I'd tell him to shove it up his ass and buy another one at full price just to spite him.jstreet0204 said:
200gt5, I'm not saying this is something you would do, I'm just making a generalization.
jstreet0204
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Gearbanger 101 said:
I don't think it is slimey. The tuner is vin locked but the tune is not. He bought the truck with the tune he has. No different the send the ecu off to have it flashed and sent back. The guy who sold the truck can still use the tuner to pull codes and datalog, so I see no reason why someone may want to keep it for those purposes alone. Agreed, it would have made more sense to include the tuner in the deal, but I personally would have offered the guy one price with the tuner, and one price without.
i would have no problem giving the xcal2 to the new owner of the lightning, just at the time we traded it in for another vehicle the flasher was the last things on our mind, and now i have the flasher and i just wanted to see if i could use it on another vehicle. From what ive read it seems like its locked to that one ecu.
JMS charges $80 plus whatever shipping is both ways. I think that is cheaper than what SCT wanted. Also after talking to a few guys even if you returned the truck to stock the SCT tuners are still locked to the cars and you have to have them unlocked. Only the Predators can swap from car to car just by returning them to stock. One otgher not you can only return a car to stock 3-5 times dependiing on who set up the SCT before it is locked
Don 95Vert
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Dealers cannot remove the VIN lock if the vehicle it was used on was not returned to stock. Whoever told you that from SCT either misunderstood you or didn't know what they were talking about. What they meant was that AFTER the vehicle is returned to stock a dealer can unlock it. But you also have that capability with LiveLoad a free download from SCT. Trust me - I wrote the user's manual for the XCal 2.
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