Anyone bought Hondata Flashpro and then wish they had not?

jcp227 said:

I might be going this route myself if KTuner doesn't start catching up.
I think both companies do a good job, however Hondata is offering up a lot of goodies right now.

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iLovePho said:

It doesn't seem like KTuner even cares to catch up at this point. Several members posed questions and directly asked KTuner on new features and updates, KTuner gave cryptic responses or just plain ignored the questions. They are very responsive when it comes to troubleshooting their product, but on new features? Nothing. It's like they just gave up on developing for the FK8 and don't want to admit it to prevent even more potential customers to go Hondata.

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gtman said:

It's pretty clear Hondata is the go to platform for the R and KTuner for the 1.5 turbo models.

If I'm guessing here, I'm thinking Hondata owns a Type R (for R&D) and maybe KTuner doesn't?

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idragmazda said:

From a business perspective, the 1.5 market globally is so many multiples of the size of the fk8 market so I get why the fk8 gets less attention

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iLovePho said:

I get it from a business perspective, but some transparency on development for the FK8 would be nice. It's not helping them by keeping us in the dark. If anything, it hurts them since guys like us are just going to point any potential buyers to Hondata if they own an FK8.

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Deadgame said:

For those of you who've switched from Ktuner to Hondata, did you need to send your ECU to Hondata or did Ktuner's unlock work for both platforms? Hondata's site says it may work...

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boosted180sx said:

to be fair, hondata isn't really talking about what they have in store for the fk8 also. They are just releasing it catching us off guard lol. I've been asking about if its possible to have it default to +R like sport mode default for SI since early last year and didn't tell me if they were gonna work on it or not and they just implemented it out of nowhere.
It would be nice to know what they are working on. That way people have some stuff to look forward to.

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Hondata said:

But the bigger picture is that we learn a long time ago not to give out roadmaps or make promises for certain types of changes because it just leads to disappointment. Sorry about that, but there are good reasons.

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Harlaquin said:

Just curious. seems we have only two tune options. Hondata and Ktuner and from my understanding, unless im wrong, Ktuner said they were stopping development for now on the type R due to lack of aftermarket parts? So that leaves Hondata. So with the base Type R already fairly impressive does the Hondata really give that much more? Can you really feel the difference? are you happy with what you paid? Hondata from what I see is the best but it is rather pricey once you factor in the jailbreak and shipping and taxes and all its over a grand. Have you bought it and then were less then impressed for the cost or were you so pleased the cost was totally worth it?

Just starting up conversation is all. I personally was gonna go Ktuner but with some of their responses to my inquires and then hinting at not developing further the type R I chose Hondata. However the cost was a hard pill to swallow. havnt got it back yet but hoping it is all worth it.

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Harlaquin said:

Just curious. seems we have only two tune options. Hondata and Ktuner and from my understanding, unless im wrong, Ktuner said they were stopping development for now on the type R due to lack of aftermarket parts? So that leaves Hondata. So with the base Type R already fairly impressive does the Hondata really give that much more? Can you really feel the difference? are you happy with what you paid? Hondata from what I see is the best but it is rather pricey once you factor in the jailbreak and shipping and taxes and all its over a grand. Have you bought it and then were less then impressed for the cost or were you so pleased the cost was totally worth it?

Just starting up conversation is all. I personally was gonna go Ktuner but with some of their responses to my inquires and then hinting at not developing further the type R I chose Hondata. However the cost was a hard pill to swallow. havnt got it back yet but hoping it is all worth it.

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Harlaquin said:

See this was my experience as well. I sent them a email once asking for clarification on their ordering process as the web sites a bit confusing. I asked if i order from a dealer and then send the unlock to them. And that I needed to schedule an unlock with them as per their sites info. I got back some strange answer about how they don't steal from their dealers sales and such and not one answer to my question or a an appointment to send in my ecu. I sent another email in response saying that their own site says I have to contact them to make an appointment and that is what im trying to do. To which I got no answer.

I had two very good shops here in NC tell me to stay away from Ktuner for that reason as they themsleves would get half answered cryptic responses to service inquires. And now with them not even doing any more development for the type R....

On other hand I called Hondata and the guy who answered the phone was super nice , informative, was happy to answer my 1000 questions and even gave me tips and info on what they are currently doing and how the owner drives a type R he flashes all the time. Cost more money but heck that is how you run a business. Ktuner just seemed bothered you even were buying their product.

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Florence_NC said:

BTW: Does Hondata have the option to have different tunes in different modes like the KTuner?

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boosted180sx said:

this ecu does not have the option to store multiple tunes. Both ktuner and hondata can't do that.

What you are talking about is different power outputs (torque request) for different driving modes, which both ktuner and hondata does.

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