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Yeah dude if your tuner prefers SCT then you have to buy a tune box of your own, it gets 'married' to the car and won't work on a new one unless your car is returned to stock tune.

Watch out for this if buying second hand.

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But if your tuner uses HPT VCM suite then they can tune and do just the one which is loaded in and no hand controller. Basically it depends who tunes it.

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SCT is def. better IMO as you can switch between tunes. I.e. Valet tune when you leave your car somewhere, E85 tune, Max power 98, high power 98.

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yeah I like the idea of the sct but not sure if I would use it alot like plug it in and change tunes. my utes a work horse so if it pumps 300 all day every day im happy. not fussed about getting a e85 tune as I have no idea where to buy it near me.....valet tune could be an option........I will have a chat to tuner and see what he says about the vcm tune cheers

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yeah I like the idea of the sct but not sure if I would use it alot like plug it in and change tunes. my utes a work horse so if it pumps 300 all day every day im happy. not fussed about getting a e85 tune as I have no idea where to buy it near me.....valet tune could be an option........I will have a chat to tuner and see what he says about the vcm tune cheers

The E85 issue is prevalent in Sydney. Of the ~35 petrol stations within 10km's of me, I can't think of a single one with E85 and none of the ones on the way to work (at least 3 of each Caltex, Shell, 7-Eleven and a couple Independent) have it either.

Valet tune can be useful if you drop it off for a service for example. It would be good if you could log what happened with the car too so you knew if they tried to thrash it...

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I use one tune for big boost/ timing e85, and one for 98 ron.

and the third is valet...

my 98 tune makes 340 and e85 365.... woo hoo!

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Valet tune can be useful if you drop it off for a service for example. It would be good if you could log what happened with the car too so you knew if they tried to thrash it...

Good luck to them thrashing it with the rev cut at 2500rpm ;)

How are they meant to check if your car is running properly if they can't get past 2500 or 3000rpm?

Also why would you give them the car without the tune you use the most often?

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I've read valet tune is more for when you get it cleaned or whatnot. Don't think I'd give the car with that tune to my mechanic, agree exactly what you say.

But at the same time, wouldn't mind having some sort of logger to see what they did lol

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