Acadia18
Autocross Champion
- Location
- The Greater Boston Metropolitan Area
- Car(s)
- 2019 Golf R
That's what I would have thought as well.
I don't really understand the lengthy delay either. As you indicated, they have a library of files for different setups to serve as base maps at this point. It is a manual process to set up each file for your AP serial number, but it still results in a long wait to just get started with the base map. FWIW I just went through the process over the last 4 weeks and once you have the base map, Nick was spot on with responses within 7 days.
The only thing that makes sense to me, is they don't want too many "in progress" tunes going on at once. The more base files that are out there, the more revisions that are flying back in, and can cause Nick to get overloaded. Personally, I'd rather get the base file and be told "Ok, here's the base file. But your tuning slot won't be up until ___ date, so don't send in any logs before that.". That way I could at least get the hardware installed. But I can understand why they wouldn't want to do that.
So much easier to pay the extra cost and just get the remote dyno tune and be done in less than 3 hours.
You don't even need to get a dyno, you can do a live tuning session with Ed on the road, as long as you have a way to communicate back and forth. It's still just scheduling with him and paying for it. Even going that route though, it'd still be waiting weeks to get it done.