Why do "tuners" think there map will work on several cars? Do they really think there tune is so good, it will work on another car without any changes?
And then the customer gets frustrated with how shitty there car is running. So now the customer has to take it to another facility to have it tuned. Only problem is, that other facility can't get into the ecu. Because the other tuner locked it. Now the customer is left with going through the trouble of the dealer recalibrating it. And hoping it works.
When a customer hires me to tune there car, that tune is now the customers. There's a part of me that thinks the other tuners just don't want anybody to see how messed up there tune is. Or maybe this is frustating talk after dealing with SCT earlier and having a customer from out of state trailer his car in, and we can't get it done today.
So if HPT is going to offer a tuner lock, there should at least be a way to return a vehicle back to stock with the hp cable.