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Old 10-25-2011, 03:45 PM   #1
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I couple of a years ago my son bought a used suby(from the dealer) that apparently had a Cobb tune flashed but the original owner must have kept the accessport. It wasn't discovered till he needed servicing where the dealer then said he needed a new ECU at big $$$'s. Luckily for some very small $$ and a week of downtime, the fine folks at Cobb had us send the ECU to them in Utah and they were able to reset everything back to stuck. They weren't able to salvage the tune but we learned that tunes were locked when flashed by a protuner or using an AP v2.

Fastforward... Thinking of using an AP v2 for an '11 WRX just with the basemaps for stg 1. Does this still lock the ECU?
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I couple of a years ago my son bought a used suby(from the dealer) that apparently had a Cobb tune flashed but the original owner must have kept the accessport. It wasn't discovered till he needed servicing where the dealer then said he needed a new ECU at big $$$'s. Luckily for some very small $$ and a week of downtime, the fine folks at Cobb had us send the ECU to them in Utah and they were able to reset everything back to stuck. They weren't able to salvage the tune but we learned that tunes were locked when flashed by a protuner or using an AP v2.

Fastforward... Thinking of using an AP v2 for an '11 WRX just with the basemaps for stg 1. Does this still lock the ECU?
When installed, the AP v2 will "lock" the ECU in the sense that other ECU flashing tools will not be able to read/write from/over the Cobb install. This is useful in that if you took the car in for service, the dealer would not be able to overwrite your Cobb install (which sometimes they update the ECU without telling you). However, once you uninstall the AP, the ECU is no longer "locked" and it is returned to the original state it was in before you installed the AP. The only time it is a problem is if you lose the AP. However, even if this does occur, it is possible to take an existing uninstalled AP, marry it to the ECU, and then uninstall and return it to the stock map.

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Old 10-25-2011, 04:47 PM   #3
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That explains everything and makes sense. The prior case the dealer was attempting to flash and it failed so they're next step would have been to replace the ECU.
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if the previous owner had an AP, and left it married. if i buy an AP (still un married) and plugged it in would it work as normal untill i went to flash a map? i ask this because the previous owner had my car tuned and i just got an AP and still need to flash the map, but i plugged it in just to make sure it "worked" without flashing a map. when i go flash a map and it is married (if it is) will it give me an error?
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if the previous owner had an AP, and left it married. if i buy an AP (still un married) and plugged it in would it work as normal untill i went to flash a map? i ask this because the previous owner had my car tuned and i just got an AP and still need to flash the map, but i plugged it in just to make sure it "worked" without flashing a map. when i go flash a map and it is married (if it is) will it give me an error?
You'll just get a message that another install was detected and it will still allow you to overwrite that install with the new AP v2 install.

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thats exactly what i wanted to hear good.

but, what if its a locked Opensource one? will i still be able to?
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thats exactly what i wanted to hear good.

but, what if its a locked Opensource one? will i still be able to?
There no such thing as an open source tune that locks the ECU (as far as I'm aware of). The only other thing that could lock the ECU would be an Ecutek tune. The AP v2 should be able to overwrite the Ecutek tune in most cases, although this is not a function that we guarantee will work (Ecutek can change their methods at any time and our ability to overwrite their tunes was based on a sharing of info a while back).

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good to know, you can lock OS tunes on evos which is what i got confused with.
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