EcoDiesel OBD II Flashing now available.

[cs in Alabama]

What I have is the PPEI. It's their handheld version so I don't have to ship them the ECM.
I'm heavily leaning towards getting the GDE Transmission flash too. Just want to get some miles in the PPEI so I can compare performance and MPGs.

yeah, i missed that and updated my response.

 

[Firstsage]

Got in touch with their Tech Support this morning. The instructions were supposed to be on the flash drive. Possible something happened in shipping that caused this to happen.
They are supposed to be sending me a dropbox link that will have what was on the flash drive (I think that should be emailed either way...).
I'll post on what happens next.

Jon

Update: Got the link. Process is what I had found online over the weekend. Use the OBD device to read the ECM. Take that file and email it to PPEI. They modify the file and send back the tuned version. Upload that to the OBD device and that is then written to the truck. You can always go back to stock by uploading your original file to the device and write that back to the ECM.
File has been sent. I'll let you know turn around time for the new file.

 

[Firstsage]

Right about 24 hours now. Sent a note this morning asking if there was a high level ETA so I could set my expectations correctly. Are they thinking today, tomorrow, this week or next week? I'll let you know what I get back....

 

[Firstsage]

So I called this afternoon. They are awaiting a software update from the manufacture of the handheld device. He said to call back in a couple of days if I had not heard anything. Not the greatest communication from them right now...
Hopefully the product is worth it once this gets addressed. At least this way I am not out a truck for a few days shipping ECMs around.

 

[TC Diesel]

Thiers's a famous saying, things don't start good, they don't end good, I hope it does not apply in this case.

 

[Firstsage]

Thiers's a famous saying, things don't start good, they don't end good, I hope it does not apply in this case.

Me too...

Update: Just got an email back with a file that they are asking me to test.
I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[John Jensen]

There's another famous saying, "He who has your money cares not about completion".
Sure hope it turns out well as it's a great improvement over shipping ECMs.

 

[Firstsage]

Things have not been going great. Truck is not liking the flash.
I am working directly with Kory on this. He has been putting in hours helping me. He and I were trading emails etc late into the night and early this morning. We are testing a couple of items. I'll keep you posted.

 

[BoostN]

I noticed in a post he said he's pulled the OBD flashing for the EcoDiesels off the website for now while they work through some bugs. Hopefully you guys can get it figured out.

 

[cs in Alabama]

I noticed in a post he said he's pulled the OBD flashing for the EcoDiesels off the website for now while they work through some bugs. Hopefully you guys can get it figured out.

ouch!

 

[Firstsage]

https://www.ppei.com/shop/ecodiesel-ecm-tuning-obd-flashing/
Its still on the site.
Update: Truck is back to stock and happy again. Kory has the manufacture of the handheld engaged and they are reviewing the logs together. More to come.
2nd Update: Re-flashed the Modified file Kory sent me last night and the truck is happy. The main thing we did in between is reapplied the Protocol files and this looks to have resolved the issue.
Going on a test drive. More to come.

 

[John Jensen]

That's good news. Now the better news will be how it performs. Keep the updates coming, very informative.

 

[BoostN]

Good to hear! I was making my statement based on this:

 

[Firstsage]

He is full force on it. He sent me 3 different files to flash once I get home.

 

[Firstsage]

None of the new files panned out. The modded file he sent was just a small change to test the flashing process. Something with the other updates the truck does not like. Good news is I can flash back to stock very easily.
He and the hardware manufacture are reviewing the logs. More to come.

 

[John Jensen]

At least you have the ability to flash back to stock. Would be a real problem if that didn't work.

 

[carlhenry]

I wonder if they sold any tuners that actually worked on the eco they had to sell more than one

 

[Firstsage]

I wonder if they sold any tuners that actually worked on the eco they had to sell more than one

Well we know it got through beta testing. Kory has a truck there too. Not sure on other units sold.

 

[Green Diesel]

Well we know it got through beta testing. Kory has a truck there too. Not sure on other units sold.

What model year is your truck? Sounds like a software PPEI has not seen before. Dangerous game making random changes on ecms.

 

[Firstsage]

What model year is your truck? Sounds like a software PPEI has not seen before. Dangerous game making random changes on ecms.

15. Not random. Turning different switches on/off to see what it is that the truck is not liking from the base tune one at a time based on the logs.