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I expect to pay to play. I even expect to pay for a tuners time. I have found that not all tuners are are talented. I say talent because this is not an exact science. I liken it to a painter or a fine musician. It takes an artist to understand the fine strokes it takes to make the engine sing as well as a technician to understand the physical limits of the parts and the engine as a whole.
As such, I am willing to pay the higher cost to get a masterpiece. What is baffeling to me is, why does the masterpiece have to be thrown away and tried to be reinvented just because I want to add a new part and my old tuner /"artist" has retired. Why can't the new tuner recognize the finer points of a master tune that has worked flawlessly and build on it or tweek it to accomidate the new part, say headers. In this example, the tune is running at peak effectiveness but when you add headers it will throw the air pressure and mixture off. I would think this would only require some slight mods. But most if not all want to charge a new license fee and then a hourly rate on top of that fee to rewrite "their tune".
By all means the tuner should charge for his/her time and skill to write or mod a tune for the new part added, but to charge to reinvent the wheel that already works and another license fee when they use the same HP software seems much.
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