How often do you flash??? - Page 3

blueoval · 14-05-2009, 06:07 PM

oh ok, my mistake. I understand now, its not the flash box thats at fault. gotcha

Well I guess we all take the risk if we play to some degree right?. Its what we do when something does happen to break. Most of us just pay for it to be fixed. I know thats what I will do should/when this ever happen to me. AU's are cheap so in some ways I can regard it as an affordable repair. For me, Im prepared to take a little risk if it means I get a little fun in the short term.

StealthAu · 14-05-2009, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by blueoval

oh ok, my mistake. I understand now, its not the flash box thats at fault. gotcha

Well I guess we all take the risk if we play to some degree right?. Its what we do when something does happen to break. Most of us just pay for it to be fixed. I know thats what I will do should/when this ever happen to me. AU's are cheap so in some ways I can regard it as an affordable repair. For me, Im prepared to take a little risk if it means I get a little fun in the short term.

Reflashing the ecu continuosly will kill it, but we're are talking about thousands of times on adverage so the risk of the ecu failing in your life time if doing so once a month are more or less no existant, once a week still unlikely.

blueoval · 15-05-2009, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by StealthAu

Reflashing the ecu continuosly will kill it, but we're are talking about thousands of times on adverage so the risk of the ecu failing in your life time if doing so once a month are more or less no existant, once a week still unlikely.

thanks brendan, thought that might be the case.

lofty · 16-05-2009, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by RG

You've got to remember that our ECU's are adaptive so they can and do learn bad habits. This is the reason that a reflash helps, all the learnt info is deleted and it reverts to what the tuner asked of it.

Is the learning behaviour more trouble than it's worth?
Is there a way to turn it off?

blueoval · 16-05-2009, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by lofty

Is the learning behaviour more trouble than it's worth?
Is there a way to turn it off?

I dont believe so. This is an inbuilt system from ford. If SCT knew how to turn it off I think they would have done that by now. I reckon to over come this you will need to fit a completely different system., which in turn is more money than people here would want to spend.

View Poll Results: How often to you reflash your ecu with the flash tuner
once a month	2	12.50%
once every 2 months	0	0%
every now and then	3	18.75%
not often enough	6	37.50%
never OR I dont feel I need to	1	6.25%
I plan to now that you have reminded me	3	18.75%
I do it too often, somethings not right	1	6.25%
Voters: 16. You may not vote on this poll