ok , first off i want to say a lil something, and im not pointing fingers at anyone, just saying what needs to be said.......The problems with these cold start issues and cold running issues has nothing to do with bills tuning on these ficms. The reasons ford does the IH strats on these trucks is because of the cold issues that these trucks have..The aggresive IH is what is killing these ficms..Now bill can do away with the IH or he can do a very mild IH just depends on what you want. THE PROBLEM YOU MAY HAVE WITH A COLD START OR COLD RUN IS YOUR INJECTORS !!!!!!! If you dont beleave me go drop a few grand and put new sticks in and see how great it runs..Im getting tired of all the bashing going on on these forums about how i got my ficm tuned and now it skips.. Now with this being said I have a 03 6liter and have done a lot of testing and im currently testing for bill...Thru the years ford has developed many different strats to help with cold start issues and emmision control on our trucks, therefor killing performance and fuel mileage....Then comes bill who in my opinion is one of the best tuners and most knowledgable persons that there is on tuning our trucks that can get the fuel mileage and performance back for us, BUT IF YOU HAVE A HARWARE ISSUE WITH YOU TRUCK PERFORMANCE TUNING IS GONNA TELL ON IT....5 seconds of Inductive heating does more than 5 minutes of run time...I recently put my truck back to the original 03 programming ficm,ecm,tcm.tuning it had the day it rolled off the factory line in may of 2003...It runs better stock now than it did with my daily driving tuned truck before...better fuel mileage lower egt's and to say the least it has balls...The original programming for these trucks hauls *** but all the newest strats for our trucks has really robbed performance. Now my ficm has ZERO inductive heating on it..does my truck skip for a few minutes in the morning YES...DO i have a few injectors with sticking spool valves YOU DANG RIGHT....But i can live with a few minutes of skipping in the morning, for all the performance and fuel mileage in return, In my opinion and many , many others ficm tuning is well worth the investment for all the returns you will gain...Now some out there will read this and get all mad or repost this and call names, but opinions are like *******s and everybody has one. The fact of the matter is if you get you ficm tuned and it skips for a few minutes then you have some bad injectors... its not the ficm or bills tuning if you can live with the skip for a few minutes then you will enjoy better fuel mileage, lower egt's and overall better performance......If you cant handle the fact that your injectors are bad and dont like a lil miss in the mornings than leave the current aggresive IH strat in you ficm and when cold weather comes around again you can drop about 6 to 7 hundred bucks a year on a new ficm....Sorry for the long post i just had to say this and will also say on any other post i see....Thanks for reading this and im sorry if i wasted anyones time or pissed anyone off....
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 crew cab 4-wheel drive 03 f-250 6 uh oleaker.4 inch staight pipe..12 years of being a diesel tech..i love helping others..feel free to call with any concerns..706-244-4955 got the truck put back to factory tuning the day she rolled of the factory line, TEC3..ficm,tcm,ecm...php is the best
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