I have a buddy with an 05 Rumble Bee he is selling. He is offering me his Superchip for nothing. Once he programmed his truck with it, can I use it on my 05 Ram 5.7L Hemi?

 

Only if he puts his truck back to stock first. Otherwise the programmer will happily tell you VIN LOCKED as soon as you plug it in.

 

as long as he puts the stock tune back onto his truck, and "deprograms it" you can add a tune onto a different truck. but otherwise, it stores the vin of the stock tune that is on the tuner.

 

+1, yeah he needs to set his truck back to stock....you could take it from him, send it to SC and have them unlock it for ya, but with the problems that tdmopar59 has been having I don't know if it'd be worth the hassle...and i think it costs like $200 to have them unlock it

 

It's a hundred greenbacks, and a huge huge gigantic pain in the ***, i do not personally know of one person who has had good luck getting their's reset

 

Ooof.... if you want it make sure he sets it back to stock.... the guys at superchips are in no rush to help you out... it is a hundred bucks but those guys are soo freakin ughh... not gonna get into it... if its a flashpaq you MIGHT be able to reset it over the internet...

 

Why should Superchips reset the unit at any price? The original owner either keeps his truck "tuned", or he reverts to stock so he can give/sell his tuner to someone else. It's one thing when someone is screwed over on Ebay and buys a locked tuner but it's quite another when it's already known that the tuner is locked.

 

ok and how is superchips going to decipher who got screwed on ebay, who got screwed locally, and who is bs'ing.... this company offers a service... i used it... they have not been very good with their customer service in my experiance...

 

The only reason I could think of is if the Original truck was Stolen/Crashed/Blown up (rendered useless and unable to program back to stock) and the owner had no way to reset it. Then maybe SC would allow it.

With that said they did offer to help TDMopar out and they are giving him the run around….

I have had problems with their so called Customer Service too. Love the Tuner - Hate the Service and web update process.

 

I had an issue, related or not related their staff on their forum seemed a little cold and vague about ways to fix my problem. They blamed my brand new 2007 truck, I mean who would think that their tuner could be to blame when the problem started after their tuner was installed. Anyway, after this was resolved, it ended up being a factory recall in my remote starter that seemed that my superchips tuner was the catalyst. Once the dealer replaced the factory recall part it has been flawless for 4 months now.