Tacoma - OVTUNE - VFTUNER - Update Info and Original Development

Not sure anybody has enough miles on them yet to give you an honest answer. The tip-in on the performance tunes is pretty noticeable if you like that I would recommend it, but that may lead to more wanting to goose it thus leaving your mpg less than you would like.

 

it is just these trucks man, a symptom that MANY people have, just ignore it.

 

how many miles on the tune? MUST give it a minimum of 2-300 miles before truly evaluating

 

Im on 91 base tune also. It seems perfect so far to me. I normally get about 17.5 on the trip I made. This time was 21.8. There is a lot more power down in the lower rpm range. I don't have to be in the pedal as much. So far I'm extremely pleased.

 

I'm a 04a61 too. Try the 91 base tune. Its amazing....

 

Just drove 93 octane performance 1.05 in the rain... I’m glad my wife wasn’t with me. Lots of tire spinning. Even when i didn’t want it to.

And I’m very light on the throttle.

I’m having fun.

 

That's what I've been running, and while it's much better than stock and better than 1.04, it still has its issues. I'm really looking forward to the Performance tune when Mat releases it for my ECU.

 

It worked! Mat, thanks again for coming to the rescue

 

If Toyota could have provided a good base and ECT version like this I think they would never keep up. Thanks @OVTune --- I'll be buying Toyotas and funding your retirement from now on!

 

Im stuck on the last step, when I click "Flash it!" and select the file to download it says "There was a problem preparing the selected file" Did I do something wrong? Anyone else encounter this? Matt said to make sure Im using the newest version. I just downloaded all the software today so i think its the newest version

 

Is the gear-lock tune the performance tune with the addition of gear-lock, or is it the base tune with the addition of gear-lock?

 

I got that same message when I tried to flash the new file using the old pc5flash within the old OVTune SoftPak. I then used the PC5flash within the new flash manager, under config, and it worked perfect. Hope my syntax is not too far off, the old laptop I use to flash is off now, so can't reference the exact spellings etc unless I want to wait an hour while it fires up.

 

I am also 04B03, so I just flashed the new base 1.05 and will try it first. Makes waiting for the performance option less painful I hope.

 

This thread is blowing up. Don’t think Toyota isn’t watching and capable of reading a OVTuned ECU.

 

Still on 1.03. On O4BO3...
Haven't flashed in about a year and struggled then as I'm not very PC literate and still using a dongle but managed somehow to flash 1.01, 1.02 then finally 1.03.
Hoping after following instructions I can get this to work.
After reading it sounds like 1.05 performance is a refined version
Of 1.03...
Can't wait to try it.
All stock but moving up to 265/75/16 tires soon.
Truck for me was really unsafe in stock form.

 

Performance tune with gear lock

 

It’s more aggressive than 1.03.

 

WOW...!!!
This should be very interesting...!!

 

That ^^ is the reason why I’m looking forward to it. I had the same feature (S mode, selectable gears) on my Ford Escape. It worked great for towing and I’ve wondered why Toyota didn’t do something similar.

 

Ok, I dont see that option under config.
Edit: I see what youre talking about. That worked thanks