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You're also missing the point about your brand's reputation. How many sales you purportedly make is irrelevant. A Google search of "Visconti tuning" and clicking the 3rd link on the GTR Life forums tells anyone all they need to know about the type of person you are and the company you run. I'm not sure what you mean by "trash a stock car", but my statement still stands: bringing a G8X into a BMW service centre with your tune for any serious engine-related warranty work will get denied. If there's a 5% chance of BMW covering something, it's still 5% - it'd be 0% with an ECU tune. Comparing an ECU tune to "trashing a stock car" speaks for itself. No one should modify their ECU unless they're willing to fork out big money in case shit hits the fan. The car is modified, and there's nothing else to it. It's an error, but it's absolutely hilarious that this is the hill you want to die on - arguing whether a car with an ECU tune is a " bone stock" car
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The point your missing is if my brand's reputation was anything like you were hinting or as bad as anyone wrote about I wouldn't be as busy as I am... right? or am I missing something. I never said your statement was wrong, I just pointed out that keeping your car STOCK doesn't mean BMW replaces everything that goes wrong. If you trash the car BMW doesn't have to do anything. Trashing a car means abusing the car - you can do this without a tune. There's no warranty for abuse. The warranty is to replace items that have worn out/broken unexpectedly or has a defect from the factory ie BEARING RECALL. If you abuse or dont maintain the car correctly don't expect anyone to cover anything. If your G80 has a open recall for something and you tune it I dont think BMW can skip the recall. Anyone reading this should know that if you touch anything attached to that engine you'll be risking your power train warranty. Intakes, JB4, ECU Flash, etc etc etc... yeah, i said intakes. Dont play unless you are prepared to own any failure that happens. The good news is the S58 is a beast and with solid tuning you have nothing to worry about. John |
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Since you're great with tuning, maybe you should hire a service writer to deal with the customers service end of it for you. I'm very intrigue by your capabilities, however scared by your responses to potential new customers. No need to be fluffy salesman, but no need to be somewhat condescending and combative over something as silly as this. That's just my two cents. I'm just here for the potential for S58 anyways. Hopefully these suckers can hit some low 5s to mid 4s on 60-130 with just bolts on.
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Everyone has the right to run a business as they like, but they are then judged by public opinion. That really doesn't look good for them when you look at the history. I'm still amazed he/they didn't just fix everything by adding the word "hardware" in the thread title. If we put aside the affect on public opinion, if nothing else it would have saved them from wasting hours defending their wording. Instead, they could have used this thread to garner more business. |
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Had I listened to the negative comments on tuners/parts suppliers in the GTRLife forum, I'd probably would have never tuned my GTR. But after reading between the lines, hearing both sides of the story, and riding all the negative feedback from folks that I thought were just primadonnas, I went with what was considered at the time, a controversial shop, and got great costumer service for parts and connection with one of the best GT-R tuners in the nation, IMO (T.B.). Just my 2 cents.
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Little update. This car just clicked off a 9.99 - Exact same configuration. I feel there may be a tad bit of room for improvement. Maybe see a 9.8 on a perfect hit.
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