Hi everyone.
Since I don't know much about how licencing works, I'd like to expose my rather unpleasant experience in order to figure out if the tuner I dealt with have been honest with me.
Last year I reach out to this tuner shop because my car, that got LS1 swapped wouldn't start at all (it had a stock 411 PCM that got flashed with a basic tune from another shop).
First thing the shop ask was to fork out a little less than 1k canadian dollars to start working on it, since I was rather desperate to see my car working I paid it.
It quickly became obvious that the reason my car wouldn't start was that the PCM itself was faulty, only sending ignition to a single spark (the only one I tested, I know I'm not that bright when it come to engine diagnostic).
To fix that I came back a couple days later with another PCM, and I got told that for this one too I would have to pay the same amount for him to start working on it.
So here I am, paying almost 2k just to have my car running.
Then the tuner took my car for a 30 minutes ride, changed fuel table a couple of time and said I was good to go for the break-in.
Fast forward this year, I reach out to the tuner for a follow up after I complete the break-in, and find out why the car wouldn't rev past 2500 rpm.
For weeks this shop would ghost me, saying they would call me back each time I'd call but never actually did.
Desperate again I decided to go to another shop, that not only figured out why the car would go up in rpm (knock sensor freaking out for no reason, retarding the engine to death) but also made me realize I didn't need to pay that much to have my PCM reflashed.
I know tuning isn't cheap, but in my case I got the feeling things when a bit too far.
Maybe someone here could help me understand if it was the case or not.
Thanks in advance.