New Tuner here

[rian_human]

I am on a budget and I am looking to buy a used version of HPTuners.
Is it a feasable option? Should I avoid it? What are the possible issues I may encounter?

I want to tune my 05 GTO. Nothing else. And I am not going SD either.

[Bill@HPTuners]

just make sure if you buy used your buying the USB capable MPVI unit...the earilier serial versions are not compatible with many of the newer pcm's including your 05 GTO's.

[rian_human]

Hi,

I am buying from a fellow GTO owner. He said that it had 4 credits remaining, but that they 'dissappeared' and that he is talking to you (Bill) to get them restored?
He has a unit that came with 8 credits and he used 4 to do a 2bar SD on his GTO

[Bill@HPTuners]

lol, credits don't just dissappear. But I'll reserve judgement in this situation until I hear back from him from the email I sent yesterday morning.

[S2H]

easy way to tell
is to follow this step by step
it will tell you exactly where the liscenses have been used

http://www.hptuners.com/help/introdu...cense_info.htm

also...if the Unit was an MPVI Upgrade..it doesnt get 8 new credits..it just got the persons previous liscenses transfered over to it...
so they could have a couple of model/year liscenses from an old Serial style interface, and thats all the unit would have on it.

[rian_human]

Bill, did you receive anything back from him regarding the missing credits?

[Bill@HPTuners]

nope.

[rian_human]

Once I receive this and get the credits, how do I move the registration to my name, in order to make use of this site and what it offers?

Regards,

Rian
05 GTO

[Bill@HPTuners]

Changing ownership You can have the original owner do one of the following:

Change the account information by logging into the server (his password is
the original email address used to purchase VCM Suite).
http://www.hptuners.com/

Have the current owner contact us using the original email address and have
him tell us about the transfer of ownership and for which serial number.

[rian_human]

Do the credits that appear in Account Credits online ever get updated? Mine reads 8 credits, although there is none on the Hardware.

[Bill@HPTuners]

thats how many credits get issued with the initial purchase. If you purchased used then you'd need to look at the Help-License info screen to see how many have been used & how many of the credits you have left on the hardware.

[rian_human]

Yeah, I did that, and there are none left (missing credits as discussed higher up in the thread). I was really just wanting to know whether the number online ever gets updated with what was physically on the hardware.

[Bill@HPTuners]

it gets updated online only if you purchase more credits.