Yosser

I'm curious how many of the people who are posting about how the tunes aren't significantly changed over the stock settings have actually compared stock to other off the shelf tunes from IPD, RICA, etc?

I can't/won't answer for others but can answer on my own behalf.

I have only compared the ARD blue tune to the stock S70R tune. All that was changed was the boost map 'required pressure ratio'.

I have no idea what other tuners change and, to be fair, the off the shelf ones that you cite probably aren't that much different. Personally, I wasn't interested in making comparisions with other tuners. I bought into Robert as a straight up guy with skills and knowledge that would exceed the offerings that were otherwise available (through tuners like those you mentioned). I assumed that the ARD product would be better than the others, so if I were to make a comparison with these other tunes and find the same then that would not serve to assuage my disappointment.

Over the course of all this I have spoken with quite a few people who's knowledge of tuning these cars far outstrips mine, and they were pretty much all appauled by the map that I was sold. There really should have been more to it, and even what was changed should/could have been way better.

Add to that that, despite my making a bit to bit comparison of the stock and blue tunes and finding only boost map variations, Lucky actually lies to me to tell me that he does more than that. I quote "With out going into detail of how we tune we do in fact touch more than just the boost maps". Well, not on mine you didn't.

I'm more disappointed than I am angry, but the fact that it now seems I'm not alone makes me feel slightly less of a mug.

I can't work out how to post the full comparison from tunerpro for those who are interested, so sorry about that. If I work it out then I'll post if anyone is interested.

I cant get the link to work?

I'm posting from my phone just now so will have a closer look later, but the link is also in my sig. I think t5d5 might be having server issues or something, as it does seem pretty slow just now.

To answer another post which called for proof, I'll post a screenshot of the tuner pro comparison of my stock and blue tunes later.

Sorry I missed this thread until now.

I'm the OP of the thread over on T5D5.

I never posted the same thread here on VS as 1) I'm not as active over here, and 2) I figured that the light emanating from Lucky's arse might obfuscate the message.

Based on recent posts (both here and elsewhere) I guess I may have been wrong about 2).

I'm not going to cut and paste my thread, if you want to read it it's here - ARD tuning bad review.

If I haven't covered all bases then I'll be happy to answer any questions that anyone has to ask about my experience.

PM me with what you want and your address and i will look up the cost. would not think it will cost too much more.

PM sentThanks

International shipping available? (UK)

If so, I'm in for a few small ones.

Try from android now.

Working fine here now. HTC Desire, 2.3.3 with custom ROM. Thank you :D

This is a copy & paste of the errors whilst viewing the forums page with mobile theme:

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I should say thats only on my phone, it's a-ok on the PC.

How about now?

No change :(

Im getting really weird "cannot modify header" errors

Same here.

The site is pretty much unuseable on my (android) phone - mobile or default theme.

e.g.

explode() expects parameter 2 to be string

invalid argument supplied foreach()

cannot modify header information

etc. etc.

Shame, as I access VS mainly via my phone.

I've got a scroll-down finger.

- Huge white area's between posts. 'currently hiding posts, change threshold?'

I'm getting this too in IE7, works fine in Firefox.