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Mitch McKee: Why Tuning is Changing and McLarens Hurt Themselves

The Smoking Tire

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Is a Tune Hidden From Dealerships?

Many tuners, including M engineering, claim that their tunes are not discoverable by dealer once the cars are turned to stock. This is hotly debated on car forums. Can you explain in general how a tune can be hidden from a dealer more specifically on a career? Yeah. First every tuner does that, you know, all of them. They reset flash counters. There's another reason for that too. Flash counters have to be reset on certain ECUs like continentals and some others because if you actually flash it too many times, it will stop working. And it's not like a... It's like a Y2K? Sort of.

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