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Old 06-05-2013, 12:12 AM
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Beware of James Rakes Tunes...

I don't post much here, but I had a new customer bring me his 2009 SS/TC tonight to retune his car that was tuned by James. I was told he had put this tune on a while back (keep in mind this car only has 7K miles on it), and that he has been having driveability issues. I pulled the file and was dumbfounded by what I found. There were so many DTCs disabled (including misfire DTCS) and the DAL and WG tables are nothing short of a good comedy. I would not normally bash another tuner's file, but if people are paying for this crap, people need to know what they are really getting. I am sure some of his nutswingers will jump on here and talk ****, but I really don't care.... Buyer Beware....

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Wow! I am tuned by james for about 6 months now. I do have my car unlocked on a friends hpt tho maybe we will have to double check everything over thanks for the heads up. To he fair, so far my cars been fine though no issues
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good looking out
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I don't know the guy personally, but when I have a customer call me up and say they have been tuned by a "reputable/known" tuner, and I pull this out of a car, people need to know. If I would have put this crap on a customer's car, I would be ashamed.....
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interested to see his input
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I think he is banned
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^you're probably right lol
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Originally Posted by mrbelvedere
I think he is banned
I havent seen him on here in along time i dont even remember his user nsme
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Yeah hes banned. And this topic is like mentioning voledmort in harry potter on here
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glad I got gremlin to tune me instead of him
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Why was he banned?
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Always fighting lol
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On this forum? you don't say
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i've been saying this for quite some time now..... i've seen some of his files before as well.. es no bueno
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Is this just me or does it seem like a base tune that was intended to be refined? At least that's what I'm hoping.
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Originally Posted by padlock
i've been saying this for quite some time now..... i've seen some of his files before as well.. es no bueno
Well where do i get the straight dope at? Lol. I think im gonna go to omiotec and get a dyno tune. Thats how you tune a car for real forget this emailing tunes crap.
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Repost^ lulz
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Originally Posted by riceburner
Yeah hes banned. And this topic is like mentioning voledmort in harry potter on here
This is probably the best way to put it.

As soon as I seen the thread title all I thought was uhhhhhhh ohhhhh.
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^ what if you're not a nerd and haven't seen Harry Potter?

i have no idea what rice is referring to.
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Person no one talks about mostly because of fear.

I'm waiting for the RPT fan club to spam this thread with goats...
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This should be a pretty touchy subject however it is what it is
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I had a tune by James for Almost a year and 40k miles no issues whatsoever. It was took to the track numerous times and as far as I know still going. This probably is a base tune but y'all can bash all you want he is the only one that will touch my cars. Not a nut swinger but if I called or emailed him at 1 am he was there. And stayed in Alabama a extra day to work on my car half a day so I'd be ready for a track day.
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