Sct tuners issue

[Lowrider1976]

I've heard on multiple fronts that new sct tuners or ones that have been recently updated can randomly lock/ brick your pcm on 2010-2012 sho vehicles. Anyone hear of this or experience that? Any feedback appreciated. Apparently due to new epa files in the updated software so folks claim. Everyone here seems to like sct as their preferred device so this might effect a lot of folks.

 

[mrhighcaliber]

I just updated my sctX4 to the latest firmware 2 days ago along with a revised tune.

No issues

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[Lowrider1976]

I just updated my sctX4 to the latest firmware 2 days ago along with a revised tune.

No issues

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Thank you! That's reassuring.

 

[Lowrider1976]

Anyone with the livewire ts have any feedback? I was planning on purchasing one of these in the next few days

 

[FiveLeeter918]

It happens in roughly 4% of customers. It's only affecting certain strategies, so if you send me your strategy I can tell you if it's happened to us. But even more weird, is that some customers can flash 10-20 times before the brick, and others get bricked on the first try so it's not even consistent in that.

We've also had a few customers brick while datalogging. And unfortunately SCT has zero interest in fixing it.

We do offer HPTuners as an alternative, with the launch of the RTD we have been tuning plenty of 10-12 SHOs with great success, and have several tickets into HPTuners to improve the software even further for the Mossy Oak PCM.

 

[ridered74]

Anyone with the livewire ts have any feedback? I was planning on purchasing one of these in the next few days

I was sent a new tune recently and loaded it on the car fine. Went to put original tune back on and it said the device needed a software update before it could load that tune back on the car. Connected to wifi and it did a quick 30 second update.....then when I connected to car it said "please turn car off". Car was already off. Exact error code didn't exist on sct support website.

Took device to laptop to update it and it gave a giant red warning "return car to stock before updating device". I wrestled with whether I should try it or wait to call SCT for a good part of the night. Didn't want to brick my car but eventually I said to heck with it and went ahead and updated the livewire. Took over an hour to load all the updated files.

Once updated I was able to load the old tune again and my ********** finally unclenched. My only worry is if I ever return to stock, not sure if that will work or if it will brick the car. Guess I'll learn the answer to that whenever I eventually decide to sell the car.

 

[Lowrider1976]

Yeah I bet that was a tense hour! Or really a tense night overall. Thanks for sharing your experience here. I might be suspect with that warning if returning to stock may pose a problem down the line if you try it. Glad it worked out for you though! Have you swapped between tunes successfully since then?

 

[ridered74]

Yeah I bet that was a tense hour! Or really a tense night overall. Thanks for sharing your experience here. I might be suspect with that warning if returning to stock may pose a problem down the line if you try it. Glad it worked out for you though! Have you swapped between tunes successfully since then?

Yep I switched to auto octane tune to make sure I could since I use it occasionally coming home from tracks where I can't find any e85. I'd put vehicle to stock and then update device fully if I were to do it again?

 

[Lowrider1976]

Yep I switched to auto octane tune to make sure I could since I use it occasionally coming home from tracks where I can't find any e85. I'd put vehicle to stock and then update device fully if I were to do it again?

Makes sense to me. AO won't be an option here(2010), but then again no one has e85 locally either lol

 

[Lowrider1976]

So interesting story any information or help appreciated.
I went to my local ford dealership to update the pcm before getting a tune package and ther accompanying hardware. Due to the known issues people have spoken of. This was the results.

Basically we don't know what the pcm # is that's installed but it's not the correct one. Sorry we can't help you update software. The correct pcm will cost about $1100. Ugh. How's that even possible?

 

[Lowrider1976]

@yaycandy @802SHO @FiveLeeter918 @ridered74

Check out my previous post. Seriously how the, what the ****? This should be interesting with my extended warranty. Glad I haven't touched anything yet for mods.

 

[ridered74]

@yaycandy @802SHO @FiveLeeter918 @ridered74

Check out my previous post. Seriously how the, what the ****? This should be interesting with my extended warranty. Glad I haven't touched anything yet for mods.

Weird. I'd bet they say extended warranty does not cover that if I was a betting man.

 

[FiveLeeter918]

hmm very weird. Unless they are trying to flash a 13+ strategy to it.

 

[Lowrider1976]

Idk he could have, but I thought it went by vin so? It was odd and the lack of confidence on the techs end wasn't reassuring. Especially since it says hardware or software who knows which end is the problem? 3 guys discussed and concluded oh it must the wrong pcm then. Going back to the original dealership it was purchased at but earliest opening with them is July 2nd.

 

[Lowrider1976]

@ridered74 is there a way I can dislike your last post? Lol. Yeah I only imagine it'll be a fight, and a hard one to win

 

[ridered74]

@ridered74 is there a way I can dislike your last post? Lol. Yeah I only imagine it'll be a fight, and a hard one to win

Nearly impossible even if it explicitly was covered. Step one they will ask you in what way the car is not working correctly.

Best bet is save your time and frustration and just tune it. If you are one of the unlucky few, it seems sct is pretty good about paying for dealer charges to reflash if you do run into issues.

 

[Shokev]

This is only for 2010-2012 not 2013 ?


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[Lowrider1976]

This is only for 2010-2012 not 2013 ?


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To the best of my knowledge but I'm no expert, kinda a newb lol. Others may be able to give a better answer