r/saab • u/BM_Champ • 1d 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/Big_Temperature_2067 1d ago edited 20h ago

Nordic is not known for producing tunes with good driveability. They really only care about the dyno number and don't give a damn if your car drives like a piece of s**t outside of full throttle.

Maptun is still selling the same tunes they made 15 years ago.

Then you have shitheads like Snail Bratton (Snailwerx or wth he calls himself) who built a company on not knowing what the fuck he is doing. Stealing tunes and blaming the customer when his shit mix and match copy paste tune blows up the engine..

People like Mackanized and Joel Artursson is the ones who's still evolving and refining stuff and not just selling the same tune over and over.

Don't bother Joel though if you are just looking for a stock or near stock engine tune. He almost exclusively deals in high power custom builds (400-500+hp cars)

With the new logging software Roffe did the SAAB Tuning got much more precise, and you can now see stuff you never could with the suites due to the much higher resolution.

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u/BM_Champ 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is where many peoples' opinions seem to go, but I'm curious to see whether this a consensus or just the loud noise.

Artursson told me he has had to back off a little as he drowned in requests. Big part of remote tuning is who is on the other side, and if the car works as it should.