I tuned my car today and when i turned on my car it was smoking so running rich and was knocking so i went back to the stock tune. i didnt want to damage anything.

 

Kind of seems like something may already be damaged.... what was the AFR was there any knock or anything?
(by knock i mean knock retard.)

 

i dont have a afr gauge and i have 30 thousand and dont drive it hard never have had problems. i went back to stock only was doing the smoking and knocking after i uploaded the tune

 

Did you data log it? Who tuned it?

 

no i didnt want to drive it with the engine knocking i did it myself got it from modern performance

 

Weird. Tune file seems not right send it to Vince and have him look at it

 

How do u know the engine is knocking? U knOw these cars have a bit of knock on mild throttle. It's false knock. And what kinda gas u using?

 

i emailed trifecta but vince isnt going to be there till may 1 on vacation or something. and after tune was done and i turned it on just idling it was having a loud knock . and i have always used premium. thanks for the help

 

Ya that tune file is effed. I'd wait for Vince and let him make u a new one

 

Don't wanna come across as an a-hole, but why do people onsist on getting canned tunes?? I just went through a major hassle from a canned tune from a reputative vendor here causing major headaches. Car still isn't right.. I'm hoping to fix it today; it's been almost 1 week of headaches. (Not my car btw.. I would NEVER use a canned tune period)

 

Trifecta isnt a canned tune.... OP, go to WOT-tuning.com its Vince's help and support site and you can get help their.

 

If he got it from Modern Performance, it's the old GT tuner style which is most likely a canned tune.

 

i only received a red obd2 cable from them and the tune emailed to me. i emailed vince but he said it was not due to the tune. They dont change the fuel mixture at idle and it cant knock at idle. He wants me to datalog it but i dont want to drive my car like that so might of wasted a couple hundred i emailed modern performance but waiting for a response. i have never had problems with my car and never race.

 

hey man im a trifecta dealer out of tyler, tx...
i can take a look at your car if ya want and see exactly whats wrong, pm me lmk

 

i am in the army so cant just up and leave but i will keep you in mind.

 

pm sent

 

Ok.. I'm just going to ask this cuz I went through a bad situation myself just this past week. Do you have another ECM in the car other than factory? Been tuned before, or just stock?

 

the car is used got it w 23 thousand i have only put an intake and never tuned before its possible its been tuned but doubt it not as fast as the tuned ones

 

Could also be a bad ECM.. does it run perfectly fine and pull like it should in all gears without the tune file loaded onto it? If not, it could be on its way out. Idk though... just tryin to help :S

I tried uploading a Trifecta over an HpT this past week, and whatever was on that ECM wouldn't go away. Had to do a bunch of relearning just to get the car to start to boot. Once it was started, there was no power most of the time lol. Found the original ECM from the factory, threw it in, uploaded the tune, and Bam! Good to go with the power the car should've had.. no problems, and no more codes. The car was throwing 4 codes that I cleared last week and came back again just last night before we fixed her up. Guy's pretty happy now.

 

yes it runs fine and does have power in all gears. thanks for the help

 

Canned tunes are the **** on VWs, Subarus, MS3s and Audis

At least I like the off the shelf tunes. They don't break the cars, especially in VW, BMW and Audi canned tunes.

 

Sounds to me that either you got emailed a bad tune, or you have an underlying issue somewhere else. Do a data log like Vince said, it'll show him exactly what's going on. Getting knock isn't going to do anything to your motor, it'll just pull timing until it stops knocking.