I bought this truck 5 weeks ago and the trans mission died last week. I've had 116 vehicles and have never taken one to a shop. But this transmission is over my head and i bought a warranty with the truck so here we are. The first thing the guy did is take it to the dealership to get a factory flash on the engine ecu and trans ecu. He's going to rebuild with a lower stall torque converter, better clutch packs, upgraded valve body and etc etc. When its all done he is going to take it to a shop to get a custom tune done to it so it will run right with the dpf and egr delete that it has. I don't care about making every bit of power it possibly can, i want reliability. But my problem is that this tune is going to be 1200$. Can i not just buy a mini max and do everything the truck needs once the tranny is built? He said that's not a good option. I'm sure he thinks im going to be running a 175 increase all the time or something. But am i missing something? Will a mini max or something like it not do what i need. They are about half the price of this custom tune. The factory reprogram was around 400, trans rebuild the way i want it is 6000$, minus the warranty companies $3000 that they would spend on a used tranny, and then 1200 for the tune: so i'm looking at 4600 out of pocket. Everything i've owned in the past is old, so this is kinda new to me. I'm an electronics tech so im not completely hopeless, I just feel like i'm missing something.
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this isn't the same old what programmer question. i'm confused and need to know what to say to this transmission shop. any help??????