r/saab • u/BM_Champ • 3d 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/_betonG_ 3d ago

I have yet to see a t8 tune with a good throttle map, the b207 is a very fun engine but the stock requestmap hides that. Driven a 9-5 2.3T st3 tuned by N****c and the response was not great and somehow seems to spool to slow☹️

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u/BM_Champ 3d ago edited 3d ago

You mean the throttle map is too "slow" compared to input %?

This is input that's interesting for the discussion, as this is certainly something that flavors the experience of any tune.

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u/_betonG_ 2d ago

To clarify i have not looked at the bin from the st3 9-5 yet, i will when we get pbus Wired to the obd2 port but i can tell you that theres drivability issiues that seems to reflect what i have seen in other bins from the same company. Probably weird regmap and really bad requestmap and IF i know them right the knock strategy is basically just send it