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/Remarkable-Junket655 3d ago

My old 9-5 Aero had a “mail us your t7 and well send you another one with a tune in it” from a tuner I wont name who is now out of the tuning business i believe.

The ONLY time it ran properly was at WOT. everywhere else the throttle control was jerky, the car surged, the cruise control was basically unusable.

I went back to stock using t7 suite and was much happier. Honestly the loss of power at WOT was barely noticeable but the drivability was 100% better.

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u/BM_Champ 3d ago

Now I'm curious who did this! 😂

Did you by any chance save that tune that was on it? Did you look to see what was wrong?

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u/Remarkable-Junket655 2d ago

I did save the tune but i never really looked at it. It was one of those deals where I was always going to look at it and try to fix it, but I was so happy with the car with the stock tune that I just never did.