[CSG Mike]

Originally Posted by FR-S2GT86

Unfortunately, you won't be able to do much more with a regular OBD2 reader than what you already CAN do with it. You certainly can't program your ECU with it. Believe me, I've been down that road already. If you still want to flash your cars' ECU, you'll need EcuTek or any one of the other products that are out on the market, like Open Flash Tablet for example. And if you ever want to learn about creating tune files for your own car, EcuTek is really the best product to use since there's so much of a support base for it.

Since you're almost all the way there already, my suggestion to you is to first get your product registration changed to a different (and more responsive) shop. I would suggest contacting EcuTek again to tell them that you are wanting to change your product registration to an EcuTek Master Tuner that is in closer proximity to your home address. You're going to want to dyno your car eventually, right? Find the closest one to you. You can start here:

https://www.ecutek.com/Dealers

Then knuckle-down and purchase the 225 flash points like I did today to get your foot the rest of the way in the door and take it from there. Be ready to put some time into reading and educating yourself on a whole mess of subjects. I've been learning as much as I can absorb for the past year since I purchased my FR-S and I'm STILL learning. It takes time and dedication to learn. If only I didn't have to worry about work.....

If I may ask, and you can PM me if you'd rather not specify on a public forum, where in the U.S. are you located?

You don't need to do any of that. YOu can just contact your master tuner of choice, and they can transfer your dongle under them with just some basic info.