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Originally Posted by jsimon7777
Is Tactrix going out of business?
I think this is over-priced because it's artificially limited. If it worked on both BMWs and FR-Ss and they kept adding more cars to support, even if I had to pay another $100 per model supported, I'd buy one in a second. Instead, it's the lock-in system. Not as crippled as ECUTek or Cobb, but still crippled.
For what it's worth, after buying one, I'd drive over to Shiv and have him tune the car. Heck, I emailed them 6 months ago, asking about their tuning.
Frankly, if they dropped these artificial limitations and sold it for 600 with support for both cars and no lock-down, they'd crush the living shit out of EcuTEK and BRZEdit, making more money in the end and building a happier community.
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For something as important as the ECU, I'd rather have a device that is programmed to handle my car only. The last thing I'd want is a jack-of-all-trades system that screws up my car even though it saved someone a few bucks compared to needing two units.
From a development standpoint, I would imagine building a unit that handles different ECUs and still manage to be feature packed in a limited amount of memory to be a nightmare. Not only would there be tons more QA needed (since this deals with multiple types of ECUs), but the time it would take (since it is a small development team I'm assuming) to test could delay the product who knows how long.
Based on the tuning options available, their model is as good as it is going to get for a little while. Yes, if RomRaider could handle our vehicles, you could cheap out and go the Tactrix route. For the retail price of EcuTek alone, you could basically buy two of these. I'd just count that as a win compared to buying EcuTek for the FR-S and their tablet for the BMW. You can't have your cake and eat it too
