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Old Mar 7, 2002 | 01:28 PM
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Default WTF are these "Locks" people are talking about???

Anyone? I'm a little lost here. How's a PCM get locked. What's the deal?? <img src="images/icons/confused.gif" border="0">
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Old Mar 7, 2002 | 11:06 PM
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Default Re: WTF are these "Locks" people are talking about???

Generically it referrs to some methodology or technique used by various tuners to prevent the pcm from being edited by ls1 edit (and possibly hypertech).
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Old Mar 7, 2002 | 11:13 PM
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Ahh, ok! I thought it was something that the dealers were using to keep us from tuning the PCM...
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Old Mar 7, 2002 | 11:53 PM
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Default Re: WTF are these "Locks" people are talking about???

If say Ed wright or whoever locked your PCM..can it re-flashed?? thru the dealer?

thanks

travis
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Old Mar 8, 2002 | 04:22 AM
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Default Re: WTF are these "Locks" people are talking about???

They are trying to keep people from seeing what they did.
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Old Mar 8, 2002 | 10:19 AM
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Default Re: WTF are these "Locks" people are talking about???

They locked us out so we could not see what they did NOT do but should have.

[quote]Originally posted by Toxic Texan:
<strong>They are trying to keep people from seeing what they did.</strong><hr></blockquote>
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