Tune won't take. Any ideas?

AmBo

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I'll try to make this quick;

I bought the Mongoose kit years back from Tim @ MrNormsGarage (formerly MPH). The thing is, the tune he did then turned off almost all of the ECU monitors.

This is now a problem due to inspection requiring these monitors to be on and ready. So I bought a new SCT3 (my old one was stolen) and Tim sent me a new tune. I flashed it, got it re-inspected and failed. Monitors are still turned off.

I've done this THREE time already. I got three completely new tunes and none actually are turning on the monitors.

Anyone have any idea what the heck may be going on? My car is now 7 months overdue for an inspection (knock on wood)!

 

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Are the new tunes definitely overwriting the old one? Try setting something way off like the gear ratio in the tune, so you can verify the speedo is off and the tune is actually loading. Just chucking out ideas...

 

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I honestly wouldn't even know how to do that bud. I have the tune file though, but have no idea how to tweak anything...

 

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Can you NOT load the original factory tune because you dont have the original tuner that was stolen? Have no way to revert to factory, and then tune fresh from there? If not, maybe the stealership can reflash?

 

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Exactly. This has been the biggest pain in the ass because those ******* theives stole what to them is a brick. And because of that, I lost my stock tune. This has been nothing short of an absolute nightmare bro.

 

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Tried the dealership?

 

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nah man, i'm scared of what they'll charge me and on top of that, i wouldn't be able to drive it off the lot IF my sct3 for whatever reason isn't flashing the ecu. ya know?