NOTE: Posted on NAM as well
Just completed installation of Tuner file on my '03
MCS JCW210 having used the services of local (NY Metropolitan area) dealer Don Hollingshead at precision-mini.com. I highly recommend Don and precision-mini.com. He was a very knowledgable, honest guy and helped keep me informed on ETA of my Tuner file which ended up taking a reasonable 7 days from when I emailed him my stock file to email delivery of Tuner file.
My first impressions are of a wonderful improved low-end torque, seat of pants dyno assessment of HP and higher rev limiter make a tremendous improvement. Can't wait to get out and driver her some more tomorrow. Can't comment yet on refinement of
DSC as I had it turned off during today's short test drive.
One experience which I thought I should share, perhaps which should be moved to appropriate MTH FAQ or to MTH support sticky thread or respective local/regional dealer web sites is that I did install of Cartune on a desktop in room adjacent to my garage and successfully used a 10 foot USB extention cable to download files from the car to send to Don and on to MTH in Germany. However, upon receipt of Tuner file some 7 days later I received multiple error messages (with phrases like "echo" & "signal") in them and frankly I had a few panicked minutes when I disconnected cables and my car wouldn't start at all and it didn't appear that I could reload original file!
I decided to look for a simple solution first and try removing USB extension which was only thing I'd done that wasn't exactly as per instructions received. I moved the desktop
PC into the garage so I could remove the USB extension cable and connet directly via the OBD II USB cable and then the upload worked fine. So - I would strongly suggested as a FAQ that yes you can use a desktop PC in lieu of a laptop but make sure it is close enough to drivers side door so you can connect OBD II cable without any extension cables!
Motor on!
Howard Shaw
aka MINIAC1, aka liminiac
Jul 2nd, 2006, 03:23 AM
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