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Old Nov 19, 2005 | 07:10 PM
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Angry DIABLO PREDATOR waste of money

Just got Diablosport predator from PARTS FOR YOUR CAR. COM and will not work on my c5 told PFYC and ask for refund they would not give refund or store credit.Talk to diablosport and told me to take car GM dealer ship to have ecu. update dealer told me that they have problems when they do this.
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Old Nov 20, 2005 | 09:57 AM
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yeah i'm pretty unhappy about the predator that I bought. diablosport refuses to reflash it.

in any case, i'm extremely happy w/ HP Tuners. more options and can use it on an unlimited number of cars. i just finished tuning a friends A4 TA for 100 bucks... a few more cars and this thing will pay itself off
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Old Nov 20, 2005 | 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by WOTJOHN
Just got Diablosport predator from PARTS FOR YOUR CAR. COM and will not work on my c5 told PFYC and ask for refund they would not give refund or store credit.Talk to diablosport and told me to take car GM dealer ship to have ecu. update dealer told me that they have problems when they do this.
Might want to see what your credit card company
will do for you. If the unit never hooked up to your
car then it's still "usable" on some other. Though a
"no refunds on electrical parts" policy is the norm,
selling you a product that's not compatible, isn't.

If the unit does not even power up, though, check
the cig lighter fuse (also powers the OBDII connector,
at least on F-bodies it does).
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Old Nov 21, 2005 | 03:47 AM
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the unit will turn on but it say it does not support this vehicle it will take engine reading and tell you trouble codes but that is it .
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Old Nov 21, 2005 | 11:48 AM
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Should Look into getting the Vinci Handheld Tuner, has 6 diffrent custom tunings programmed inside of it.
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Old Nov 21, 2005 | 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by jjnada
yeah i'm pretty unhappy about the predator that I bought. diablosport refuses to reflash it.

in any case, i'm extremely happy w/ HP Tuners. more options and can use it on an unlimited number of cars. i just finished tuning a friends A4 TA for 100 bucks... a few more cars and this thing will pay itself off
Is that the standard version or a multi-user license version?
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Old Nov 21, 2005 | 05:32 PM
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I got a hold of DIABLO and talk to a tech and he told me that PFYC sent me the wrong programmer the porgarmmer I got was for a 2004 GM I need the ealry version. PFYC told me they cant do any thing.Will try to work it out with Diablo.
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Old Nov 23, 2005 | 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by jub jub
Is that the standard version or a multi-user license version?
The standard one. You pick 2 model/year combinations and can use it on an unlimited number of cars for those models/years (eg: 98 and 99 f-body or you could do 98 fbody and 00 silverado/sierra - check out http://hptuners.com/order.php)
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