My sct tuner has been stolen!

El mustang

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My car was broken in and a few thing were stolen.....:mad2: My sct tuner was one of the items taken. I'm planning on getting another one. I still have my bama tune in the car. So how will it work with a new one? I read somewhere that I will need to get the car re-flashed. I saved my stock in PC. Any assistance and suggestions will be greatly appreciated it. Thanks!
 
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To install a new tuner, no, just overwrite with a new SCT device. If want to have the stock file on the new flasher so one day you get it back to stock, SCT can do that for you.
 

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Sorry to hear. It's fixable as lito said. But why was it even in your car?
 

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Glad to hear! I had just recently changed the tune and left in the car.
 

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To install a new tuner, no, just overwrite with a new SCT device. If want to have the stock file on the new flasher so one day you get it back to stock, SCT can do that for you.

If he has the stock tune in his PC, as stated, he can just load that up in the SCT and upload to car. Or am I missing something?
 

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So I shouldn't have any issues using a different tuner even though my stolen one was married the the car?
 

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The idiot that stole it is gonna have to pay to send it to SCT to have it unmarried/unlocked if he plans on using it on the car he probably stole too.:tdown: LOL!!!
 

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The idiot that stole it is gonna have to pay to send it to SCT to have it unmarried/unlocked if he plans on using it on the car he probably stole too.:tdown: LOL!!!

This...


You may want to contact SCT if you have the SN and report it stolen, maybe you can be alerted if someone requests to have it unlocked.
 

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Thanks to everyone! I'm gonna order my new one next week.
 
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Should be able to use the SCT tool to upload it to the new tuner if he has it on the PC, correct? Dynospeed did something similar with mine since it is the Bluetooth model (TSX) and they were having issues connecting it to a device. They ended up using an X3, and then put the final tune onto my SCT TSX when they were done. I know that when I was using BAMA tunes and they sent me some, I used SCT's tool to upload them into the TSX.
 

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/\ that's what I thought, Lito says SCT has to do it... :headscratch:
 

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One thing is uploading tunes another completely different is the stock read. Probably years ago it was possible when stock and tune files where saved separately, something I've never tried and really doubt it would work with some preparation from SCT, now, from some time, SCT has been creating a single encrypted and compressed file with what I guess is stock, VID block and tune that is not "uploadable" to the device, you can send this file to them and request a stock restore and they would probably generate an update in the server so one can update the flasher, getting an stock file and doing a return to stock on the car, for then re-tune again, something along those lines.
 

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The stock tune goes into a different memory block than the other tunes and it is not writable by the user. I got this info from SCT when my stock tune was destroyed.
 

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One thing is uploading tunes another completely different is the stock read. Probably years ago it was possible when stock and tune files where saved separately, something I've never tried and really doubt it would work with some preparation from SCT, now, from some time, SCT has been creating a single encrypted and compressed file with what I guess is stock, VID block and tune that is not "uploadable" to the device, you can send this file to them and request a stock restore and they would probably generate an update in the server so one can update the flasher, getting an stock file and doing a return to stock on the car, for then re-tune again, something along those lines.

The stock tune goes into a different memory block than the other tunes and it is not writable by the user. I got this info from SCT when my stock tune was destroyed.

That makes sense. I was basing it off of OP saying the stock tune was downloaded to the PC. I haven't been able to export my stock tune to PC, just the custom ones. I was thinking that since he had the file, he would've been able to use it like a custom tune.
 

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