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Originally Posted by Rombinhood@OpenFlash
When a user flashes his ecu back to stock using his Ecutek cable, does the license info on the ecu also get removed? From my experience with Ecutek back in the day (circa early 2000s), the license always stayed on the ecu, even when it was flashed back to "stock". This, unfortunately, prevented users from loading non-Ecutek tunes since this license info also "locked" the ecu from being read or written by anything other than Ecutek hw/sw. I'm guessing that that is no longer the case but would like to know for sure.
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When the BRZ/FRS ECU is reflashed it is NOT locked as you have shown us with OpenFlash Tablet. In fact you can pull the map right off and review it, with no problem. The ONLY systems that are truly locked with EcuTeK are the 02-05 Subaru WRX.
When the BRZ/FRS ECU is reflashed back to stock. It is as stock as it is going to be with the EcuTeK License built into the ECU ROM. You can even reflash it with other systems and this goes for all makes and models EcuTeK offers their tuning system for.
So when the dealer reflashes the ECU all they are doing is writing over the current map in the ECU and of course this wipes the EcuTeK License within the ECU. Currently there is no way for the dealer to determine if the ECU has been reflashed if you have a stock EcuTeK map on the ECU.
Cheers,
William Knose