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kbrennan
Mon, April 11th, 2011, 01:04 PM
Some wonderful, honest individuals thought it would be a good idea to steal the CTS from my truck. :sigh: I've decided to go the less flashy route with just guages and a phoenix, but I have a catch: When they stole my CTS the truck was on the 80hp tune. Do I need to get it flashed back to stock in order to utilize the Phoenix?

Keith

ToMang07
Mon, April 11th, 2011, 01:10 PM
Man, that sux.:thumbsdwn:

Did you look into insurance to see if they can help ya in the $$$ dept?

kbrennan
Mon, April 11th, 2011, 02:15 PM
All $200 of it after the deductible. :cursin:

Jackpine
Tue, April 12th, 2011, 01:55 PM
I think you do have to have the truck put back to stock before using the Phoenix, but I think Bill can help you.

Make sure Bill knows your CTS was stolen and he has your unit's Serial Number.

- Jack

cleatus12r
Tue, April 12th, 2011, 02:51 PM
Nope, you don't have to return the truck to stock to use a Phoenix.

Jackpine
Tue, April 12th, 2011, 05:57 PM
Nope, you don't have to return the truck to stock to use a Phoenix.

And there you have a "real" answer, instead of my "guess"! Thanks, Cody! :thumbs up yellow:

However, DO make sure PHP knows the S/N of the stolen unit.

- Jack

Demo250
Wed, April 13th, 2011, 03:57 AM
So I'm assuming that a "stock" position on the phoenix would just revert back to the 80 HP program that is flashed in? I guess that would be the only downside.... no way to ever get back to a stock setting without having the truck flashed back.:hmmm:

cleatus12r
Wed, April 13th, 2011, 08:19 AM
So I'm assuming that a "stock" position on the phoenix would just revert back to the 80 HP program that is flashed in? I guess that would be the only downside.... no way to ever get back to a stock setting without having the truck flashed back.:hmmm:


No. Stock on the chip would be "stock". A chip doesn't revert back to the PCM programming on "stock". "Stock" is actually a burned memory allocation on the chip.

Demo250
Wed, April 13th, 2011, 07:54 PM
No. Stock on the chip would be "stock". A chip doesn't revert back to the PCM programming on "stock". "Stock" is actually a burned memory allocation on the chip.

Ahh, I see. Thanks for the info!