Choupique
Senior Member
The tuners I use are professionals
No they aren't. The people who write the software for Ram are professionals. The people who write delete tunes don't have anywhere near the resources needed to test and validate their work. They have a sample size of a handful of trucks with maybe a few hundred thousand miles total of testing. When you read about hot shot trucks with 500,000 miles on them, they are never deleted. When you hear of blown up transmissions and blown headgaskets, they are always deleted.
Que the guys with a sample size of one and maybe 100,000 miles raining the anecdotes.
You guys are taking an absurdly expensive vehicle and trusting its driveline to a guy who isn't even reading parameters that aren't on the can network. You're helping incite the federal government to do something about it. It's a terrible idea in 2024. If yall think the EPA is never going to come down on the individual owners, you're nuts.
There is no tune "maintenance" required what so ever, Load it and drive.
You trust that tune, that tuner, and the associated hardware to never give you any trouble for the life of the truck? Never going to fail an ECM? Never going to have an issue with the programmer 20 years down the road? Its a dumb risk to take.
20 years from now your gas truck will be in the junk yard so what's your point?
No it won't. It still has the full support of the OEM, is not in the EPA's crosshairs, and does not have hack modifications done to it.