[BudgetPlan1]

Originally Posted by brad1287

So basically, if you have a new SF3 or an X3 bought prior to July 25, 2008, you've got the same thing?

That's how I read it.

[jrglenni]

Originally Posted by mikemaxx15

what about preloaded vs custom tuners like american muscle?? Whats the diffrence

"preloaded" or "canned" just refers to the tunes that comes on the device from SCT. They are generalized for year/models of different vehicles. All you do is plug the device in and flash your computer with the canned tune and voila.

Custom tunes are written by other vendors and can actually be a custom tune specifically for your car or another generalized tune for your model and mods. You can connect the SCT device to your computer and load those tune files onto it, then you can plug it in to your car and flash your computer with the custom tunes.

[dzins]

Originally Posted by Scrochy

the sf3 is great, since it is a pre-owned tuner find out where they bought it from, mabye it was american muscle, you get free tunes for life ( or rather he does ) tell the vendor of your choice what you have and they will make a custom tune for your application. you will get it a e-mail and you download it to your tuner, then upload it to your car many adjustments can be made with this tuner in your hand, you can also datalog what your engine is doing with the tuner itself or log more data with a laptop.

I think the free tunes for life is very misleading. I bought mine from American Muscle and from what I can tell, the only way you get a "free" new tune is if you buy another product from them that requires tuning. I may be wrong, I've never called them, but that's what I gather from the site.

[mad0314]

If you bought the tuner from them, they will give you free tunes as long as its not FI/spray i believe.

If you buy a part from them, they will give you a free tune for it that once if you did not buy the tuner from them.

Im not 100% sure but from my understanding that is the way it works with most of them.