Dealer Service with Tune

[SurrealOne]

I just had to take my 14 Ex Sport in for service do to a Elec problem (battery had dead cell) and my rear DVD player was not working. I had to think long an hard about putting it back to stock tune but I did not.

Just got a call from dealer car is ready and nothing about the livernois tune was noticed.

All the work was covered under warranty.

 

[Fish4five]

Its usually hard enough to get them to do what there supposed and a getting them to go something beyond that requires a miracle. The only issue would be if there were an updated stock tune that required a reflash and they performed that. You would just loose the tune you had in it but depending on who's tune you had that wouldn't be an issue either.

 

[jran76]

They don't typically look for things like tunes unless there is a warranty claim that could be related to such. Most Ford dealers are pretty good about this.

With that said, I would expect that to change in the near future. Audi already scans most cars that come in for service, and flags it in their system if it has a tune ("TD1" designation) or asks the dealers to enter manually if certain other powertrain mods are present. I would expect other manufacturers to follow suit as the landscape is changing. The technology to detect engine tuning is much better than it was even a few years ago, and engine tuning is more prevalent with such a large number of vehicles with some form of forced induction from the factory.