Ynnekdude

I am going to be sending my ECU for the APR tune. I searched but I cannot find any conclusive results. Does anyone know of a specific walk-through procedure I can use to pull my ECU?

Thanks!

DirtyVegasTT

Ask APR?

badziewo

Will this help?

Ynnekdude

I've already bothered them a lot about this tune... they are doing me a huge favor already so I'm trying to be as little of a pain as possible. I'm still torn on whether or not I am going to go through an APR dealer so I don't want them to make me a full writeup if I won't end up even pulling it myself.

Last week I left my car at an APR dealer and unfortunately my ECU couldn't be flashed unless APR had my car. I was out of a car 3 days just to find out my ECU couldn't be flashed unless I sent my car to Alabama. APR quickly figured out a way to extract the coding and notified me today. Unfortunately, I'm in Missouri until mid-May or I'd just go back to my original dealer. I may end up driving to St. Louis or doing it myself depending on the difficulty.

I couldn't find anything unfortunately. Looks like I may have to end up requesting one.

edit:
Thanks! It looks like I may just end up going through the dealer. I don't have a heatgun or the confidence to be messing around with that stuff. Accessing the fuse box is enough electrical excitement for me!

Ynnekdude

Appointment made for tomorrow! Car should hopefully be tuned by Friday/Saturday

beep-beep

I heard that dealer might void the warranty if they see tampered ECU. People on S4 forum worked around it by buying second ECU and using original for visits to dealer and flushed one for fun.

Jacques999

That is a great idea! Does anyone know how much an ECU cost? Isn't mileage stored in the ECU though. Wouldn't that create some sort of problem when you have to give the actual mileage of the car?

Ynnekdude

Not too concerned. APR sends back the ECU with new tamper proof bolts. Tune is also invisible to Vagcom. Plus, my dealer is pretty lax about this kinda stuff.

DirtyVegasTT

You should dyno your car after you get it! I would love to see how much difference there is between a tuned 3.0T and S6. I bet you will be closer than we expect.

Ynnekdude

I'm planning on it