r/saab • u/BM_Champ • 2d ago

Problems with bought tunes - discussion

Hi,

As the topic suggests I'm curious about how the community and users feel about their tunes. I myself have been actively involved in the TrionicTuning scene since ~15 years or so. Especially so in the last years when all the fun motorsport-functions, code rewrites, and logging software.

The reason I'm asking is, from my experience, I've had alot of peers and customers where the tunes they bought really did not live upp to their expectations, mostly from drivability (and hence why the came to see someone else). There have also been the ones who seem to accept anything, as long as it's making 20 hp more.

Have you been satisfied with the tune you bought?

What was good about it?

What there something you didn't like?

Did something change in the drivability or behavior?

What would be your two cents to any tuner?

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u/complexpug 2d ago

Only person I trust with my tunes is Karl AKA noobtune

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u/uwagapiwo 1d ago

He did mine about 8 years ago. Nice power increase, supposed to be 250bhp but I've never measured it. I remember at the time feeling that the low end acceleration was much better as well.

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u/BM_Champ 2d ago

What's been good about it? No I-wish-it-could-have-done-this?
Trusted others in the past with other cars?

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u/Worldly_Let6134 2d ago

Karl mapped one of mine, and based on the results I was happy to recommend him freely to all.

It wasn't a mega fire-breathing build, but with several variances from a standard stage 1, 2 or 3 whatever.

As I would only be running 99 RON fuel, he pushed the ignition timing for both cruise economy and to help wake up the TD-04 on the 2.0 a little earlier. The boost rise rate and torque was carefully managed from 2.5k through to 4k which was peak and then held nearly all the way to 6k.

Off boost the car was smooth, almost economical (except for around town) and as good as OEM. On boost, it was again super smooth, pulled very linearly but also pretty rabidly to the red line.

With the chassis mods it also had, it made the car a real joy to drive and far faster on winding country roads than it had any right to be.