ECU Rumors

[MountainMan]

I was speaking with a tuner in Portland this morning and he told me something disturbing. Apparently, Triumph has engineered a piece of software on their new Tigers that prohibits any fiddling with the ECU mapping. It will shut the whole ECU down and it has to be shipped back to Blighty to be reconfigured. This means no tuning via TuneBoy or Tune ECU. They will, however, allow piggy-back systems like PowerCommander or similar. What I don't have is any confirmation from any official source. Perhaps those of you with better skills can nail this down.

If they're doing it to the other models, they'll be doing it to the new R3's. And it pretty much sucks.

If it's true, I can see the price of the older R3's going up or at least stabilizing for a few years.

 

[barbagris]

I was speaking with a tuner in Portland this morning and he told me something disturbing. Apparently, Triumph has engineered a piece of software on their new Tigers that prohibits any fiddling with the ECU mapping.

Pretty much explains why the TuneECU guys tell you not to.

Attention!! Very Important !! Never connect TuneECU with the new Triumph Tiger Explorer

My guess is it has a different ECU as older Tigers are fine. So unless they change the ECU ..........
It will kill TORS sales if there are are any for the Tiger Explorer - I can't be bothered to look. It may also kill explorer sales - this might make them back off - UNLESS there is a higher power behind it. I have heard of moves to make ECU modifying and chip tuning near impossible on ALL vehicles - (within the EU anyway).

 

[owl]

I maybe wrong but I think I read somewhere that they were fitted with 2 ecu's, one controlling the other? Therefore you mess with one, you bollox the other?

 

[Al Carter]

That's what the dealer told me last week when I ordered my Explorer, he told me there were effectively 2 Ecu's, alter one and the other backs it up so it can't be altered, I would guess it's all in one box. TuneEcu also has a warning not to be used with the new Explorer.

 

[GPMAZ]

If its a software restriction I'd guess it won't be too long before someone figures a way to beat it. If its a hardware thing, it may be a bit more difficult.

 

[tmiller]

Sounds like it's time for an aftermarket ECU. How to get rich - find a need and meet it.

 

[barbagris]

Sounds like it's time for an aftermarket ECU. How to get rich - find a need and meet it.

Wont take DynoJet long - if they haven't already.

If it's software - and it's a 2 ECU thing then it'll require simultaneous access. If there's only one connector - hard one.