Iowa Tacomas (Idiots.Out.Wandering.Around)

LoL - I will go take a peak.

 

About right here is where the shitshow started
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...lopment-thread.495735/page-3042#post-23187458

 

So, it sounds like one person is just fishing for free tuning advice and doesn't really understand what they're doing. Then a bunch of nut swingers piped up who really have no idea what's going on. I feel sorry for OVT unless he's written himself up a really good disclaimer about not supporting this directly after purchase. He's going to have a lot of work on his hands trying to help out a bunch of dudes that have absolutely no idea what they're doing.

What's the name of his shop? I wonder what he's working on now that has him ready to drop this particular market.

 

Hes not dropping he market, he’s just not doing tunes for everyone anymore because its really become impossible and unmanageable. These trucks has a lot of weird quirks and what works on one truck doesn’t necessarily work the same on an identical truck. Every time he does and update there are about 1000 different files he has to create (regular and premium, all the different ECUs, Gears, Tire sizes). Combine that with some people who are never happy and always trying to find something thats a “problem” without actually understanding what’s going on. Or want the 3-4 shift to be higher or lower or want it hold gears or not or any other combination of ridiculousness you can think of.

http://ovtuned.com/

Hes done a whole bunch of Masada stuff and got into the Toyota stuff in the spring of 2017. Turns out the market is WAY bigger than he ever expected, especially with all the complaints about the 3rd gen ECU programming.

The end goal now is really delivering the tuning platform and giving people the tools to create their own or others to do the tuning. A lot of people could be perfectly content with some very minor changes and others that want to go crazy and tweak all the things.

 

The bolded part, that's tuning in a nutshell. Period. LoL That's why more people don't do it "Off the shelf" style or remote as often because you can never make some people happy. Or they do like some of the big shops for Western European stuff and have very specific calibrations for very specific parts combinations.

The "Too big of a market" excuse is kind of BS in my opinion. That means he's just not scaling his operation well enough. If he runs a shop full time, there is no such things "too big a market". You take as many customers as you can provide support for, tell everyone else there is a wait time and scale up until you can meet demand. That's how efficient business works. At least in my opinion and experience. The reason I'm not scaling up is because I'm trying to get out of the business more than trying to do it full time. I don't think tuning combustion engine vehicles is going to be a thing in the very near future and I want a stable income. So I could understand if he's trying to get out. But if he's not trying to get out, he's doing it in-efficiently in my opinion.

 

Agree. It’s a one man show (mostly) for all the Tacoma’s out there. He has another guy that still supports the Mazda customers. Apparently back in the day he had some others he worked with or something that screwed him over pretty bad. It’s always been an issue of scale combined with people super impatient who dont understand development and what tuning actually does and is involved.

 

Tbh I’m pretty sure you don’t win no matter what you do. Personally I’m content to learn and adjust things to my liking.

 

Yes. A new head unit is on the list of things to do.

Hmmmm.. Maybe a good stimulus purchase?

 

That’s what I did..

$280 ilx-w650 digital multimedia receiver with carplay and android auto compatibility

ilx-w650 with CarPlay / Android auto. Huge upgrade over stock for under $400

 

I'll have to check that out when I have some more time. One thing I definitely want is GPS and hopefully the ability to use Google maps. I prefer it over the included Navigation, but I don't always want to use my phone to navigate.

 

I mostly wanted CarPlay. Now I can use that with Gaia on the display instead of having to mount an iPad.

I’ll likely put one with included navigation / maps in the tundra just as a nice to have backup since that’s the truck that spends more time in the remote wilderness.

 

Let me know if you come across a good option. I've looked a bit, and it seems like most of the decks that do everything I want are $500+. I don't mind spending that, but I don't have anything against saving a few bucks.

 

I got the Taco off jack stands and out of the garage today.

 

Good morning kindred spirits of killing kickass trails kindly keeping the cool kids knickers from knotting because of the known crysis at hand.

 

Got the last of the stuff I needed for the GX470 today. Dropping it off at the dealer at 2pm@#! Was waiting on new TPMS sensors. Replacing all 5 just to be sure, there is one in the spare as well.

 

just remember whenever you do those rotations to hit the sensor realign switch.

 

"nut swingers "?

 

Sounds kinda hot

 

Never heard the term? Basically hanger's on that will jump to someones side/opinion/voice the same ideas when they actually have no clue what they are talking about.

 

And they are about as useful as the ones hanging from people’s truck hitches.