Judging from the history of all the positives I have read, and more importantly negatives I have not read on this forum about flashing, this could possibly be a very short lived thread indeed.
Yes, there are plenty of very satisfied people with their flash upgrades out there. It certainly appears that these are the vast majority.
But there are also unsatisfied users where the positive hype just didn't come to fruition.
Its easy to out a supplier for poor service and value because 99% of the time we don't know them and have no connection.
But what if that supplier is quite a well known contributor to this and other ZX-14 forums?
It becomes a battle of "do I let all know of my negative experience as they deserve to know" over "I don't want to compromise a well known persons reputation and business"?
My story?
I had a very negative experience with a well known flash supplier due to my Australian spec'd bike being different from US models. As soon as I received my flashed ECU back the bike had hesitation issues and after a lot of back and forth over a period of time it was me (with the assistance of information sourced from very experienced people) who ended up resolving the issue due to my own investigation.
The resolution was a fairly obvious one to a trained and experienced person (which I was not) and I was extremely disappointed that this wasn't recognized by the flash supplier which caused a lot of worry and wasted time and effort on my part.
It is important to add that this flash supplier paid for my ECU to be shipped back to the US to resolve (failed after a guarantee the problem had been found) and then back to me again.
Plus in the end and after some prompting a full refund for the cost of the flash was provided.
Positives are important and I guess to an extent I was quite lucky as at least my ECU wasn't fried like some unfortunate people and in the end the supplier was decent enough to agree to a full refund.
I now have a local custom dyno ECU flash/tune that was done by local tuners that 100% matches my individual bike and is not general and generic in any way. All flash attributes such as safety mode removal, TC settings saved, RPM limiter increased, etc were included.
It was however more expensive.
So why bring this up now after a period of silence?
Firstly because of other related thread discussions about the pro's and con's of flashing are starting to come through, and ultimately I think people making a flashing decision have a right to know both sides of the story.
Secondly to provide an avenue for anyone wanting to tell their flash stories where the result was less than perfect should they choose to do so.
And finally and most importantly, for flashers themselves to contribute with specific challenges they have faced themselves where things have not gone to plan with their customers and the related resolutions.
We all know things don't always go as they should flash wise but rarely hear from the flashers themselves on these issues which does reduce credibility to some extent in my opinion.
Anyone who reads flashing posts on this forum will see there is no doubt some flashers are more honest and forthcoming than others.
Opening a hornets nest here?
Possibly.
But isn't more information on all subjects what this site is all about?
* Last updated by: yannih on 6/28/2015 @ 3:00 PM *