Cobb tuning removing many features from Accesstuner

[FrickingReallySlow]

https://www.cobbtuning.com/green-spe...te-april-2022/

Looks like Cobb is removing a lot of the DIY features that use to exist in their access tuner SW for EO/CARB. Not sure how it affects 86 platform user, I think most of us are on Ecutek racerom/OFT.

But the walls are closing in on tuners for sure.

[Espi]

EcuTek's parent company owns Cobb tuning so it's very likely it will trickle down. Happy to own OFT even more now just weary of connecting it to OpenFlash Manager and running updates.

EPA is coming after race cars (non-road driven cars) and modified manufactured road cars for track is under threat. Even flex fuel is under threat. They want to ban everything under the sun that eliminates CELs - this will certainly be felt in the 86/brz world. Time will tell


Good discussion regarding all of this here:

[Decep]

Thank you, pop tune running douchebags!

[Yoshoobaroo]

Yep. The poop tunes and coal rollers ruined it for the rest of us.

[kev0]

So if we never update the Ecutek software (Block connection to internet) and save the tune files that our tuners have made for us, then it shouldn't be a problem right?


I have a tune I switch back to every two years for emission purposes and I can do all of this offline.

[tomm.brz]

Originally Posted by kev0

So if we never update the Ecutek software (Block connection to internet) and save the tune files that our tuners have made for us, then it shouldn't be a problem right?


I have a tune I switch back to every two years for emission purposes and I can do all of this offline.

if it gets so extreme that they force that after an update of ProEcu , then yes it's enough to not update it


There was a time a master tuner, as a mistake, enabled me the selftuner upgrade .. i kept not updating it and even made a backup of the .exe with the enabled add-on, and i kept having it even if Ecutek disabled my tuner licence in their server


Then they started to add more defined tables and new racerom features so I finally updated ProEcu and lost the tuner licence and ended up paying the legit licence for it

[dpfarr]

The coal rolling pop tune type dudes obviously are the most flagrant examples of tuning. I wouldn’t place the blame on them but I sure would laugh if the majority of them lose this ability.

[MyHybridBurnsGasAndTires]

Originally Posted by dpfarr

The coal rolling pop tune type dudes obviously are the most flagrant examples of tuning. I wouldn’t place the blame on them but I sure would laugh if the majority of them lose this ability.

its not like the feds havent been aware of people modifying their ECUs for decades but the two most irritating subsets of people who do it are the most visible, irritating douchebags on the road probably got even more people's attention.

[A&F]

Originally Posted by MyHybridBurnsGasAndTires

its not like the feds havent been aware of people modifying their ECUs for decades but the two most irritating subsets of people who do it are the most visible, irritating douchebags on the road probably got even more people's attention.

Elections have consequences.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by A&F

Elections have consequences.

so does nuclear warfare.