@Steve:
didn't we have this discussion already
... any one that can tune with SERT can tune with Mastertune. They can just do more with Mastertune as there tuning tool.
as you know - and Doc even better knows - there are dearly few that could tune with SERT. Over here in good old Europe just none to be precise
There was no SERT-Academy for non-US-dealers. And even many US-shops who's people did the courses and have all the equipment can't - or won't - do more than just download canned maps. Same with PC-shops to be fair: they have to trust in the computer to do the job.
Now there is smarttune. It's in a way like letting the computer dial in the PCIII on a dyno. That much they can handle. But that's it.
There is just no use for giving them any superior tuning device as they don't know how to handle it - and therefore won't dare to even try those additional tools. As long as our dealers can move under the MoCo's cover by using the MoCo provided SESPT by the MoCo's book they will do exactly that.
I'll give you an example:
My last bike died because of those d... INA cam bearings. When I bought my new bike I wanted the dealer to install Torrington bearings as the cams were changed anyway. That was about 5 or 6 weeks before the MoCo intoduced them as SE-parts. The dealer refused to use aftermarket parts in fear of endangering the MoCo warranty.
Same discussion with the SERT. I had the SERT for 5 years and all the german dealers could do with it was downloading the MoCo's canned maps. So I discussed Thundermax, PC V and TTS with the dealer. For the same warranty reasons I got the SEST. And we privately agreed that I would get a PCV Autotune "inofficially" for next to nothing if they couldn't dial in the bike with the SEST. Because there is a renowned PC-shop just some 100 m away and the dealer would let them do the job. We both knew no one tuning with TTS and only 2 doing it with direct link (one in the Netherlands and the other one almost as far away).
I was lucky because the bike ran ok with the canned map by SEST and with smarttune now performs even fairly good.
That much as to superior tools: they are worth nothing at all if no one can - or dares to - handle them.
I would really appreciate if TTS would be an option and as in the EEC the propulsive warranty ends after 2 years I'm pretty shure many would love to go this way after their warranty has expired. But as long as there is virtually not one single renowned tuner over here using TTS it is no option.
So my advice stays as above: buy the tool you know someone who will be able to use it.
But I'm really quite certain we already had this discussion some time ago
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