To be very clear, I have been working on this car for several hours and I had flashed the car at least a dozen times. Here is what happened....
Did a write calibration, started the car, didn't like the result, turned car off, made changes to startup airflow table, tried to reflash the ECU, and it gave me the x36 error. The whole process took maybe 3 minutes.
It?s like at 6:00 I flashed an unlocked tune and at 6:03 it?s locked and I can?t write to it. I don?t even know how to lock a tune. Could I have locked it on accident?
Again, I had performed a write calibration to the car multiple times over the course of a few hours (say from 4:00 to 6:00) and I had to stop tuning because all of the sudden it's like the ECU is tunerlocked. Laptop was plugged in, VCM scanner works fine, tried a different USB cable, tried restarting laptop. Car runs and drives (but obviously doesn't have finished tune) so ECU seems ok.
I start digging in forums as I am thinking it is a hardware issue and I found and referenced this thread to HPTuners support.... https://forum.hptuners.com/showthrea...er-of-Attempts.....
Sent email to support and they responded.
"Hello Andy,
Thank you for contacting support, What Bill was referring to "hardware" in the forum post is the vehicles ECMs hardware. Controller unlocker x36 is relating to the ECM being tunerlocked. We can not unlock a tuner locked ECM. You might need to reach out on the Forums for help unlocking the tuner locked ECM.
Christopher Martinez"
Again, I've never locked a tune, don't even know how to go about doing so, and had written to the car moments before.