GaBoYnFla

How did they do the FLASH? Did they send off the ECU or just flash it right there? My dealer told me they would have to have the car 4-5 days. I'm not keen on leaving my car in their open back lot sitting there.

SoSuMi

My APR flash was done on site. Took a little less than an hour.

jza80

I think it depends on the model year. My TTS is a 2009, they did the reflash at the dealer, it took about 90 min. Later MY need to have the ECU shipped in for reflash, I think.

GaBoYnFla

That's what I was told....I'd rather take the ECU out myself and ship to them keeping my car in my garage....I'll have to ask about that.

jza80

Well I ran some 60-80 sprints today, but the result was not quite what I expected. The first run was a 3.20, and the best was 3.11 which is slightly quicker but that does not tell the whole story. For some reason, I was experiencing misfire/hesitation from about 5,300-6,500RPM. It usually manifested itself as 2 or 3 hesitation events in the run. For sure this messed up my times. It repeated almost every time. The strange thing is, if I do a standing or rolling sprint, there is no problem, including full throttle runs up a grade. But for some reason, doing the 60-80 timed runs, (starting at 50-52 or so), I get the hesitation. I put new NGK platinum plugs in before the tune, as the original Bosch plugs had 38.5k. I wonder if I need to use OEM Bosch plugs? Maybe the build up on my intake valves is causing this problem at specific ranges? Anyway, I'll have to do some investigation...

Stevelev

Wrong info ... When I was looking into flashes, all companies except for MTM said the ECU needed to be removed. In the US, you can rent the MTM flash tool but in Canada, the dealer is nearby and he came to me, plugged in and was done in under 30 minutes. It seems that APR "local" dealers have no clue but when speaking directly with APR, they confirmed that they too do not need to remove the ECU.

kendoist4162

APR doesn't need the ECU removed to do the reflash. If the APR dealer you are talking to says different, run away. Not walk, run.

GaBoYnFla

I'm talking about STASIS-Audi partner in tuning....to preserve warranty.


Speaking of APR, I vaguely remember years back that you could get a stealth mode version that the dealer couldn't tell was there....does that still exist?

JimInSF

Wait a sec - are you saying Audi has agreed somewhere that a reflash, from someone, anyone, will not void your warranty? Links or it didn't happen.

Stevelev

Fairly certain that Stasis covers issues relating to their mods AFTER Audi declines warranty.