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Ohio Enthusiast · 07-17-2020, 02:05 PM

Coming from the Focus ST community, the Cobb Accessport is very highly regarded, mainly due to abundant support by tuners (vs the SCT). The bulk of tuners use/support Cobb in that community.

Yoshoobaroo · 07-17-2020, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkSunrise

I think so, although I don't know enough about Accessport to say how (or if) it would be better or what additional features it would offer. Definitely a slicker design aesthetically. And probably better customer service

I don’t think so. Cobb would cost ~$800, with not many benefits over the OFT. At that point you might as well save a bit longer and get Ecutek.

Th3rdSun · 07-17-2020, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

I don’t think so. Cobb would cost ~$800, with not many benefits over the OFT. At that point you might as well save a bit longer and get Ecutek.

Pretty sure when I just looked it up,it was $600. You get OTS tunes like OFT,but better support and what looks like a more quality device. The extra $200 seems to be worth it.

Spuds · 07-17-2020, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Th3rdSun

Pretty sure when I just looked it up,it was $600. You get OTS tunes like OFT,but better support and what looks like a more quality device. The extra $200 seems to be worth it.

Are the OTS tunes open or locked?

Is it offered for the twins?

Th3rdSun · 07-17-2020, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Spuds

Are the OTS tunes open or locked?

Is it offered for the twins?

As far as I know,they are not offered for our cars. Not sure about open or locked either. I did read on their site that there are of the shelf tunes as well as the ability to work with shops to get custom tunes.Seems like it has all of the features like data logging as well,but it's all a moot point anyway.

Spuds · 07-17-2020, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Th3rdSun

As far as I know,they are not offered for our cars. Not sure about open or locked either. I did read on their site that there are of the shelf tunes as well as the ability to work with shops to get custom tunes.Seems like it has all of the features like data logging as well,but it's all a moot point anyway.

Well, there you go. Cobb would be a great comparison, if they deemed it profitable to have support for the twins. But they don't.

I like the ability to see and adjust my own tune as a hobby.

Yoshoobaroo · 07-17-2020, 05:15 PM

Cobb tunes are locked.

The accessport price also varies by platform. $675 for an STI, $900 for a 911. The more niche the platform, the more it costs.

KR-S · 07-17-2020, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Th3rdSun

Openflash may not feel good about it,but they have it built into the device that it can only be erased a certain amount of times(three from what I've read)and then you have to get erase credits. I don't know if they charge for the credits,but if they are so concerned about losing money from the resale market,maybe they should.Doesn't ECUtek make you buy another license if you buy it second hand?

Maybe making that extra money from erase credits would be economically advantageous for them to provide better support,especially to those that bought it second hand.

Erase credits? That's a thing?

MaxTurbo · 07-17-2020, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by KR-S

Erase credits? That's a thing?

Yup, the OFT server has a counter of erases. It seems they planned to charge at some point for recharges. But they give them away for free, but you need to contact them.

https://support.openflashtablet.com/...at-to-do-next-

KR-S · 07-17-2020, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by MaxTurbo

Yup, the OFT server has a counter of erases. It seems they planned to charge at some point for recharges. But they give them away for free, but you need to contact them.

https://support.openflashtablet.com/...at-to-do-next-

That... is dumb. I can't imagine charging people for erase credits would have gone well in the end.

Th3rdSun · 07-20-2020, 09:18 AM

So Openflash finally responed to my email,15 days later! No company should take that long to respond to a support request of their product. Talk about a surefire way to lose business.

Drifter X · 07-20-2020, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Th3rdSun

So Openflash finally responed to my email,15 days later! No company should take that long to respond to a support request of their product. Talk about a surefire way to lose business.

They probably seen this thread....

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Th3rdSun · 07-20-2020, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Drifter X

They probably seen this thread....

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I would tend to agree,but before I started this thread,I looked up the two profiles of the guys from Openflash that have posted on here. One hasn't logged in since 2017 and the other since last year. Maybe there's other guys besides those two,but with how slow the response was,I doubt it.

MJones_RB · 07-20-2020, 02:13 PM

Australia seems to have 86 tuning mastered:

https://www.mrtperformance.com.au/po...ts/subaru/brz/

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