No he never loaded it to his car and has since sold it anyway - belongs to a third party now I think

Money back is looking the best option, ill never buy another without testing it, Looking at Sniper now anyway - Anyone know who can tune in Adelaide - only grabbed this X3 as it as cheap and had intended to go the sniper before I found this

If I can find a few mates that want tunes as well the sniper may work out a decent price, FYI the X3 was intended for my SY Terri Turbo not a standard Terri :-)

**Edit - saw the post about those american X3's, at least he fessed up about it

Edited November 17, 201213 yr by redghia

Sorry to hear mate,go and speak to bruce from heinrich performance Tuning 81862163 as he is the best Ford turbo tuner in Adelaide and prices are very fair.

I have heard of his rep but wasnt sure if it was only for sct or not, may look into the vcm as well as I really only interested in having the one 98 tune and not changing all the time, since its awd only thing that concerns me it that it could have a fat fuel trim out of bruce's as no 4wd dyno

Thinking about 60lb siemens as well but then its a mater of where to stop, at the moment the TT is stock except a exhaust debung / CAI & Filter and as making 185kw

Hi guys,

I'm looking into getting an Xcal 3, but probably NEW from a Tuner, but I was wondering why are we in AUS paying double for one of these when in the US you can get them for like half the price.....seems like the main distributor/licensee is making a packet on these? Any thoughts?

Xcals from US don't work on our cars.

Ye I get that......my point is, same product = double price in Aus....not right!

It's a long story. But herrod don't make as much per unit as you think.

and then I would still have to pay for some generic tunes to be loaded ? worst case scenario

Well someone is making a packet...unless the U.S like screwing us? Doesn't make business sense though.

As I understand it.... if the tune is put back to stock on an existing vehicle with the Xcal, then the Xcal is unlocked/free to use on the next car, with 1 life less(5 in total)? Is that the jist of it? Or does it still need some form of unlocking? I thought they were VIN locked when your purchase one new from a Tuner/distributor?

Why doesn't it make business sense? Ever compared a Microsoft product retail price in the states vs retail here?

We are getting screwed on more than xcals.