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Old 07-17-2010, 12:18 AM
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My brother has a 2005 Hemi and of course i have the 4.7L 2006. He bout the superchips 3865 Tuner for it, now i can buy the same one but i was wondering, can i use his since its the same model?
 
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You can use the 3865 in your truck!
 
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Old 07-17-2010, 01:03 AM
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I have not read much on them but they can only be used on one vehicle at a time as far as I know so your brother would have to change his back to stock before you could use it on yours. Or you could pay an unlocking fee. Like i said that is from what I have read.
 
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okay...does anybody else whose been on for a while or experience with this know anything more in detail about this? good advice guys i'm just tryin to get deffinate answers
 
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Here's how I understand it.

If the tuner is already programmed to a vehicle, it can only be used on that vehicle. Even if the same model can be used on various vehicles. The only way to transfer it to another vehicle is to have him set his vehicle's tune back to stock, then you pay Superchips $100 to reset the tuner, after which it can be used to tune another vehicle.
 
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The tuner can only be tuned to one vehical at a time. The vehical must be returned back to stock before it can program another vehical.

If you do the trans update, that update must be purcahsed for every vehical. There is no transferring it from vehical to vehical even after the first one is returned to stock.

If you want to try it out, have your friend return his truck to stock and install it on yours. If you like it, return your truck to stock and buy your own.

If you arent set on spending $300 on the tuner, wait it out because superchips is supposed to be making it available that you will be able to tune 2 vehicals with the same tuner for a price. How much, I cant remember but its in the works. You would probably be looking at a $150-200 price tag for that.
 
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Why does it crack you up? The way I explained it was the way I've seen it explained on the SC forum. I just assumed they know what they're talking about.

I also always just assumed that the tuner recognizes each vehicle/computer's serial # or whatever, and will only work to tune that particular CPU until the tuner is reset internally.
 
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Old 07-17-2010, 03:25 PM
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So even if you're going from one engine config to another it still works, as long as it's one that the 3865 supports? If so, sounds like you found a loophole that SC was trying to avoid.
 


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