For many years the tuning market has been driven primarily by an OBD solution which has had benefits and negatives. Benefits being that it’s convenient and fast and there is no requirement to remove the ecu etc a far cry from the early days.

Things are now about the change. Whilst the Bosch EDC17 family of ecu has been around for a while it now sees the addition of the Tricore Processor which has brought an end to the OBD approach certainly for the foreseeable future and many new vehicles having these fitted by the factory.

The solution however is at hand, and involves the removal of the ECU from the vehicle, accessing the ECU internals and then a “bench flash” process. These ecu,s are being fitted to many vehicle post July 2009 for example

EDC17CP06 HONDA
EDC17CP09 BMW (x30D)
EDC17CP02 BMW (120D/123D)
EDC17CP01 MERCEDES (G320 / E350)
EDC17CP10 MERCEDES (Sprinter)
MED17 MINI/PSA
EDC17CP11 LANDROVER/JAGUAR ( TDV6 )
EDC17CP14 VAG
EDC17CP20 VAG
EDC17CP24 VAG
EDC17U0x VAG
MED17.x VAG
EDC17CP22 VOLVO 
EDC17CP14 KIA/HYUNDAI ( Sorento )
EDC17C08 KIA/HYUNDAI ( Soul )
EDC17C19 OPEL ( Insignia )
EDC17CP07 TOYOTA ( IQ )
MED17 FIAT-ALFA-LANCIA

And the list is growing all the time.

We see this as a BIG positive. We will see the polarization of custom to companies such as us who not only have the equipment but the experinece and facilitis cater for customers with these vehicles.