Exactly. If APR sold the cable/software for $150 and the tune for $400 I would easily go that route instead of a Cobb. I have never gone with an APR tune for the sole reason that I can't do it myself at home. I dont need some dude in a shop charging me labor (no matter the cost) for plugging in a cable and clicking a button. If that's called labor these days then there's a pretty big problem.
Yeah, this was less of an issue on previous generations where you could have a few maps flashed and change them with the wiper stalk (valet mode is a cool thing too), but now that you need to go to a dealer for just changing octanes, it's much less appealing.
Similar to what I said in the other thread - would love to try out the AWD DTR file, but paying shop time and the 40m drive each way, and double it if I decide I want to go back to FWD file - prevents me from doing so.To echo what’s been beat to death - the at home flash and switching is def. Something that loses sales.
I’m a true example - with my mk2 Tiguan I wanted to go with APR tune hands down and buy/run both the e85 map and switch to the 91 in rare cases like wanting to drive the car to socal, Az, Utah, etc… but the simple fact that I would I have to go to my Vegas Apr dealer to switch the map (my dealer is was plenty reasonable too, they only charge one time for the initial “install” then the rest don’t cost for flashing back to stock and such for the paranoid persons dealer trips)
Even with the idea of me knowing that I would probably only be switching the map 1 to 2 times a year for that trip - that was still enough for me to just settle with paying the 800ish for the unitronic tune and cable - cause for the mqb Tiguan it was my only other option….
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Got some type of time frame?
So when it finally comes out what platform will see it first?
Mk4 1.8s
