Considering a chip for an '05 PSD and was curious as to others' experience with them. Mostly interested in any problems or negatives people have experienced after putting them in. Thanks.

 

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There are none as far as I am concerned....
after 40K miles the 6.0 is starting to break in and seems to respond better each day tahnks to this:
http://www.motorhaven.com/customer/home.php?cat=285

Oh, I forgot....
there is ONE downside...
once you have it tuned, stock is SSSSSSSOOOOOOO STOCK

I can't drive the X - it becomes dangerous to have some poor response as stock

Sorta like going back to a Pentium I after you used a Pentium 4 for a week

 

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The downside is they will void your warrenty immediatly, no questions asked if they find evidence of a performance mod on your truck.

If you don't plan on any tranny problems in the 36k warrenty period, or engine problems in 100k, go for it.

My truck performs damn well stock. I can't see any reason to spend more money for something that wastes more fuel. It's illegal in this state to drive over 65, and I can still tow my 6000# trailer @65/70 w/ no problem, even up 7% grades. Taking a 8000# truck to a dragstrip is well, a foolish waste of money in my opinion, but some people gotta do it.??????

 

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Luckily my truck only weighs 7650 with me in it and a full tank of fuel so I can take it to the dragstrip and not feel the fool. Made four runs, two stock and two to baseline the performance of the SCMT on High Performance tune and still got 13 MPG for that tank of fuel. It doesn't get any better than that

 

The good thing about open forums is being able to disagree with someone, the important thing to remember..... respect choice

 

I wouldnt call getting almost 2mpg more with my Predator a foolish waste of money!!! Tim

 

2MPG is greatand well worth every penny
Lets see if you kept the truck for 100k miles and you.....
..... .well you know

 

The biggest downfall I see with the tuners is the length of time it takes to load each program. Sometimes it is upwards of ten minutes. BUT, that is beyond overshadowed by all of the great things a tuner has to offer.

 

Most of the time I run around with the SCMT High Performance or Economy tune loaded in the truck. Either works fine for my daily driving. If I load a couple bikes in the back and head to the desert, no problem using either tune for that too.

When I hook up Bertha and head to the desert, the five minutes that it takes to load the Tow Safe tune isn't much more added on to the whole hitch up and loading process.

Pulling out the equalizing hitch, backing up the truck, clipping in the bars and running the trailer up and down to set the links in the chain - thank goodness I have an electric jack on the trailer. That's the easy part. It's loading the rest of our household goods that the wife wants to bring for the weekend that takes so long.

If there is a downside to the SCMT, it's like JD said, now stock now feels rather lacking.

 

The only downside to my Preditor is that I hate to be with out it when taking the truck to dealer for service. Other than that; it's all good.

 

In my opinion .... putting a chip on the PSD is akin to hanging furry dice from the mirror, fuzz ***** around the windows, and sticking some neon lights underneath ... it's the "I need to be cool" syndrome.

It will shorten the life of your engine.

It will void your warranty.

In some cases ... it can bring your engine to a complete halt.

But for us of an older generation, endowed with better smarts, more maturity, and wisdom when it comes to money, we enjoy life as it is given. And there is nothing nicer than the smooth ride and enjoyment of a beautiful and fully stock PSD crusing down the highway, or on the dirt road of the farm, or off road to the moose hunt in Montana. For us, a stock PSD is a cherished prize, like a mint-condition stock 1964 Mustang, or a mint-condition 1955 T-bird. Anything other than stock ... is an irremovable stain, a blemish, a soiled linen, a bruised rose. But we stock people truly love what other Napoleonic-complex people do to their vehicles ... otherwise ... our vintage stock machines wouldn't be worth 1/100th of what they are.

So think to yourself: do you really need 365 horsepower? or will 325 press you far enough into the seats as it is?

Just my opinion.

 

That's like saying silicone has no place in the world. Sure it's not for everyone, but some of enjoy when it's put to good use.

It makes some mighty fine transistors.

 

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To each his own. I put Bilstein shocks on mine - because they are better than stock. I put a mag-hytec diff. cover on to increase the maintainability and longevity of my rear-end over stock. I guess I've degraded my truck in doing so. I just ordered a tuner to improve my fuel mileage. Its not a black and white world where its either right or wrong; at least in the realm of trucks. I think the key is for people to make educated decisions, and then be responsible for the results - good or bad.

Mark