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Old May 4, 2020 | 08:19 PM
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Dp Tuner Infinity N-Dash Issues

Long story short. In 2015 I had to have a shop do some work to my truck while on a road trip.
They installed the tuner. Only drove the truck about 4k miles over the next 3 years or so. "Trucks only seen 6000 miles in 5 years."
Hook up the toy hauler for a trip, get the wife, kids and dogs all loaded up, go to load my tow tune and it won't start.
Jody SAVES the trip and emails me a stock tune to load and get her going again.
About a year later I follow up to get my 12 tunes reloaded.. John at Emotion emails me the tunes and I load them to the memory card. Try to load them in my truck and nothing.
Got pissed and never followed up.
​​Ready to start towing and driving her again regularly and tried to load the tunes, again.
No go. It shows my tunes are there, but won't load them. Says I need to reload stock tune...
Ideas? Hardware issue? Software issue?
or dumb old man issue?
Emailed E-motion. Waiting to hear back.

 
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Old May 4, 2020 | 08:40 PM
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This may be why they discontinued them, they were for sale last year in December and I went to buy one in January of this year and I was told they pulled them all and are no longer for sale. I just got the run around when I called asking what happened. Called e motion and they couldn't give me any answers either, so not sure what happened , just seemed very odd.
 
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Old May 5, 2020 | 07:34 AM
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Loved this thing when it worked. Tunes were great. Having most my info in one gauge nice.
Waste of $1200 now. Pretty upset about it.
Going to cause me to cancel yet another camping trip.
 
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Old May 5, 2020 | 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by endobear
Loved this thing when it worked. Tunes were great. Having most my info in one gauge nice.
Waste of $1200 now. Pretty upset about it.
Going to cause me to cancel yet another camping trip.
that is definitely a bummer. Jodi can't help you with it? Hopefully you will still be able to use it for gauges and a scan tool at least. I guess I know what to expect when my infinity takes a dump
 
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Old May 6, 2020 | 01:53 AM
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Check how the tuner chip fits on the PCM J port. Pull the PCM out and see if some corrosion set in. Clean with a pencil eraser. Pics if you can so we can get more eyes on the problem.
 
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Old May 6, 2020 | 06:46 AM
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What injectors do you have?

Why do you need tunes?

I have an older Infinity for sale if someone really wants one. Putting it in the classifieds right now before I forget again.





 
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Old May 16, 2020 | 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by aawlberninf350
Check how the tuner chip fits on the PCM J port. Pull the PCM out and see if some corrosion set in. Clean with a pencil eraser. Pics if you can so we can get more eyes on the problem.
I'll check that today.
 
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Old May 16, 2020 | 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by SkySkiJason
What injectors do you have?

Why do you need tunes?

I have an older Infinity for sale if someone really wants one. Putting it in the classifieds right now before I forget again.




Stock injectors.
I like having the tunes. Who wouldnt.
I do think the tow tunes I had helped with EGTs and the milage tunes helped also. Not to mention the power tunes are fun.
 
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Old May 16, 2020 | 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by endobear
Stock injectors.
I like having the tunes. Who wouldnt.
I do think the tow tunes I had helped with EGTs and the milage tunes helped also. Not to mention the power tunes are fun.
I asked because you said it was going to cancel a trip.

Yeah, I like my tunes too - but the truck gets the job done Stock. Hell, I drove my truck on a 1500mi vacation trip pulling a trailer with STOCK tunes and single shot injectors a couple years ago because I fried my PCM and didn’t have tunes that worked on the PCM I found to use...

Id rather get there slow than not go!!!
 
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Old May 16, 2020 | 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by SkySkiJason
I asked because you said it was going to cancel a trip.

Yeah, I like my tunes too - but the truck gets the job done Stock. Hell, I drove my truck on a 1500mi vacation trip pulling a trailer with STOCK tunes and single shot injectors a couple years ago because I fried my PCM and didn’t have tunes that worked on the PCM I found to use...

Id rather get there slow than not go!!!
I was just irritated. I still did the trip...
Slowly pulling 13k.
 
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Old May 16, 2020 | 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by endobear
I was just irritated. I still did the trip...
Slowly pulling 13k.
I understand. I did this the other day with a totally stock truck. It was only an hour away, but some long, steep mountain grades between here and where the truck was. This is probably 13k lb load...



 
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Old May 16, 2020 | 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by SkySkiJason
I understand. I did this the other day with a totally stock truck. It was only an hour away, but some long, steep mountain grades between here and where the truck was. This is probably 13k lb load...


I was tugging through Central Colorado. Some of the grades are long and steep. Pyrometer wasn't working either so it was a slow, half pedal drive to.be safe.
 
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Old May 16, 2020 | 09:37 PM
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You have the USB port for the chip installed? If so use it instead of the monitor to reprogram the chip. That's how I've done mine over the years.
 
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