Originally Posted by jonnyangel04
As far as price gouging goes show any of us hard facts and figures that this is happening. I know from first hand this is not the case at all. If anyone doesn't believe me try and build your own CAI for less then $150, get the spark plug number off LET's site and call up your local part store SEE IF THEY CAN BEAT THEIR PRICE, last but not least dump 30k into being able to tune these cars through the ECU and try not to charge $900 a piece, the rough AVERAGE, to make your money back.
I couldn't disagree with you more, Jonny. Charging $900 for what is esentially a firmware update is gouging.
Allow me to qualify that a bit, so that no one gets the wrong idea. If you take your car to a tuner shop and they put it on a dyno and create an ECU tune specifically for your car and your mods, sure, that's worth $900. But when you mail a shop your ECU and they burn the same old C32 image onto it and mail it back and charge you $900 for it, THAT is gouging. Frankly, I think $500 is too high for a mail-in ECU tune.